Shii News – Academic Items
1.ONLINE Lecture: “The Rituals of the Zoroastrians from Antiquity to the Present Day” by Prof. Dr. Alberto Cantera (Free University of Berlin), Museum für Islamische Kunst, Berlin, 10 March 2022, 6:30 pm CET
Zoroastrian rituals are still accompanied by the recitation of texts in Avestic, an ancient Iranian language, in India, Iran and the diaspora. These texts were probably written before the 5th century BCE for the perfor-mance of similar rituals. Zoroastrianism is thus characterised by one of the longest ritual continuities in the world.
Information and registration: https://www.smb.museum/en/events/detail/the-rituals-of-the-zoroastrians-from-antiquity-to-the-present-day-2022-03-10-183000-127130/
2. 9es Journées d’études de la Halqa : « Marges, Marginalités, Minorations et Minorités dans les mondes musulmans contemporains (XIXe – XXIe siècles) », Lyon, 9-10 juin 2022
L’appel à communications est ouvert aux jeunes chercheurs et chercheuses de toutes écoles, universités et institutions, spécialistes de l’islam et des mondes musulmans, quelle que soit leur discipline (sciences sociales, art et littérature, islamologie, etc.).
Les propositions de communication (en français ou en anglais) doivent être adressées avant le 28 mars 2022 à l’adresse halqadesdoctorants@gmail.com.
Information : https://halqa.hypotheses.org/5108
3. HYBRID Session on “Islamic Seas and Shores – Connecting the Medieval Maritime World” during the Annual ASOR Meeting, Boston, Virtual 19-23 October 2022, In Person 16-19 November 2022
Focusing on how the Mediterranean, Red Sea, Persian Gulf, and Indian Ocean connected far-flung cultures, communities, and economies, this session will explore these connections region-by-region, to create a broader understanding of the development, expansion, and impact of Islamic maritime networks.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 March 2022.
4. Conference: “Politics of Pasts and Futures in (Post-)Imperial Contexts”, DFG Graduate School “Empires”, University Freiburg, Germany, 1-3 December 2022
Members from all disciplines of the Humanities and Social Sciences, or interdisciplinary combinations within these fields, are invited to participate. Themes: Imperial pasts and their use as means of political justification; transformation of self-images or identities formed under imperial rule in times of crisis or in post-imperial situations; the effect of imperial pasts on imagined futures and progress.
Deadline for abstracts: 24 March 2022.
Information: https://www.grk2571.uni-freiburg.de/events/annual-conference-2022
5. Aquisitions Editor Islamic Studies, De Gruyter Verlag, Berlin
Profil: Abgeschlossenes Studium in Islamwissenschaft oder verwandtem orientalistischen Fach, idealerweise mit einer Promotion; erste praktische Erfahrungen in einem Wissenschaftsverlag oder im Publikationswesen; sehr gute deutsche und englische Sprachkenntnisse in Wort und Schrift; Arabischkenntnisse und idealer-weise Kenntnisse in einer weiteren nahöstlichen Sprache.
Bewerbungsschluss: 15. März 2022.
Information: https://de-gruyter.jobbase.io/job/xaf2p7pbiy0wh8wkeuqlzva8gjv53r9
6. Three Post-Doctoral Positions for Research on “Visuality in the Qur`an and Early Islam”, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Outstanding scholars can apply to join the research project for one of the following research areas: Vision and Visuality in Early Islamic Law and/ or theology; Vision and Visuality in Early Islamic Hagiography and/ or Historiography; Vision and Visuality in Arabic Poetry and/ or Early Islamic Rhetoric
Deadline for applications: 15 March 2022.
Information: https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=63029
7. Lecturer in Arabic, Department of Middle Eastern and Ancient Mediterranean Studies, Binghamton University (SUNY)
Applicants should hold at least an M.A. or Ph.D. in any Arabic Studies related field including language, lin-guistics, literature, translation, and foreign language education. We seek candidates who have experience teaching Arabic as a second language at institutions of higher education and who possess native or nearna-tive competence in Arabic and English.
Deadline for applications: 1 April 2022.
Information: https://binghamton.interviewexchange.com/candapply.jsp?JOBID=142918#pageTop
8. ONLINE Mentoring Session: “Planning for Publication?” MENA Social Policy Network, Early Career Research Initiative, Maastricht University, 16 March 2022, 12:00 pm – 13:30 pm CET
Working on social policy in the MENA and looking for opportunities to publish your work? We are hosting Daniel Mather from Elgar Publishing House and Dr Raimundo Soto from Middle East Development Journal to talk us through the publication process.
Information: https://www.menasp.com/en/news/sign-up-for-our-upcoming-ecr-workshop-on-how-to-publish/
9. Fellowships in France (2 or 3 Months) for Young Post-doc Researchers in Social Sciences and Humanities from the South and East Mediterranean
This program is open to researchers originating from Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Marocco, Palestine, Tunisia and Syria and affiliated to one of the 140 Universities member of UNIMED.
Deadline for applications: 25 March 2022. Information: https://www.uni-med.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/English-Call-Unimed-2022.pdf
10. Ottoman Summer Program (OTSP)
Date: 27 June – 4 August 2022
Application Period: 15 February – 15 March 2022.
Organized by Koç University Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations (ANAMED), this 6-weeks intensive in person summer program aims to develop students’ reading and comprehension skills and expertise on a variety of Ottoman sources including archival documents, various manuscripts, and epigraphic material. The material will present a wide array of content and narrative types. The program is designed to accommodate the needs of participants entering with different levels of Ottoman literacy. Ottoman classes are complemented by Persian, Arabic and modern Turkish classes.
Deadline for applications:15 March 2022.
Information: https://anamed.ku.edu.tr/en/programs/ottoman-summer-program/
11. Call for Submissions: Al Noor, the Undergraduate Middle Eastern Studies Journal of Boston College
Deadline for submissions: 4 April 2022.
Information:
12. “Kingdom of Clowns: Theatre as a Source for Writing History” by Sheida Dayani (Princeton) | Wed. March 2 @ Noon
ZOOM LINK TO REGISTER FOR THIS EVENT: https://princeton.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_1VmzDFaCROakQnIRsDTOUQ
Sheida Dayani
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies
Princeton University
Her current book project, Making History with Theatre in Modern Iran: Juggling Revolutionaries is forthcoming 2023.
13. The Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies (CAMES) at the American University of Beirut (AUB) will offer two seven-week intensive summer Arabic programs on AUB campus between June 22 and August 10, 2022.
The Arabic Language and Culture program is designed for students interested in developing overall proficiency in Arabic in both its Standard and Lebanese varieties. Emphasis is placed on the development of the various skills within a communicative, proficiency-based framework that perceives Arabic in all its varieties as “one language” and thus integrates standard Arabic and Lebanese colloquial within the same course, and that gives special attention to the development of intercultural competence in Arabic. The program provides instruction at different levels of proficiency from elementary to high advanced.
The Lebanese Arabic program offers intensive instruction at the elementary, intermediate and advanced levels. The program is designed for learners who want to devote their attention to the development of proficiency in Lebanese Arabic and thus places heavy emphasis on the speaking and listening skills and on building/enhancing intercultural competence.
Both programs provide intensive instruction and immersion in the language and culture through a rigorous academic program that is complemented by an integrated series of films, lectures, clubs, and community service activities. Students receive 9 credit hours that they can transfer to their home institutions.
The application deadline is April 15, 2022.
For detailed information about the academic content of the programs, application, cost, and financial support, please visit our website: http://www.aub.edu.lb/fas/cames/sap/ or contact us on cames@aub.edu.lb.
14. Séminaire « Sociétés, politiques et cultures du monde iranien »
Séminaire mensuel du CeRMI
Jeudi 10 Mars 2022
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 10 mars 2022 de 17h à 19h, en présentiel et sur Zoom. Nous serons heureux d’y accueillir les deux conférences suivantes :
Philip Bockholt (Leipzig University):
“Translating Works of World History on the Western Fringe of the Persianate World: Two Case Studies from Ottoman Istanbul”
Abstract: From the 14th century onwards, thousands of works were translated from Persian and Arabic into Ottoman Turkish. Despite the rich source material, which includes works of various genres that can be found today in manuscript collections in Turkey, Europe, and North America, the individual agents in this transfer of knowledge have not yet been studied in depth. The aim of this paper is to examine the translation processes of two major works of Persian historiography, Mīrkhvānd’s Rawżat al-Ṣafā (Garden of Purity) and Khvāndamīr’s Ḥabīb al-Siyar (Beloved of Careers). Both chronicles cover the history of the Islamic world up to about 1500 and were translated in Ottoman Istanbul in the 16th and 18th centuries respectively. Based on the surviving manuscripts of the translations of both works, the question of who translated what exactly for whom and how the content of the works was adapted to the intended readership will be investigated. The two works lend themselves to this because the approach to multi-volume chronicles was different: while the translation of the Rawżat al-Ṣafā can be traced back to a single translator, the Turkish version of the Ḥabīb al-Siyar was produced by a team of translators directly commissioned by the grand vezir. The analysis of the translation processes sheds light on the relationships between scholars and patrons as well as on the transmission of texts against the respective religious and political background of the Eastern Mediterranean in the early modern period. In this context, broader questions about the concept of Persophonie / Persianate world at its western edge will also be addressed.
Selected bibliography:
İnan, Murat Umut: Imperial Ambitions, Mystical Aspirations: Persian Learning in the Ottoman World, in: Nile Green (ed.): The Persianate World: the Frontiers of a Eurasian Lingua Franca, Oakland/CA: UCP, 2019, pp. 75–92.
İnan, Murat Umut: Ottomans Reading Persian Classics: Readers and Reading in the Ottoman Empire, 1500–1700, in: Mary Hammond (ed.): The Edinburgh History of Reading: Early Readers, Edinburgh: EUP, 2020, pp. 160–181.
Mélisande Bizoirre (chercheuse associée au LA3M, UMR 7298)
« Utiliser l’art pour légitimer son pouvoir : Politiques artistiques des souverains iraniens après la chute d’Ispahan (1722-1750) »
Résumé : La période qui suit la prise de la ville d’Isfahan par les Afghans en 1722 et le démantèlement de l’empire safavide, a longtemps été négligée, notamment dans les études d’histoire de l’art. Elle s’avère pourtant féconde, surtout au regard du mécénat royal. Souffrant d’un fort déficit de légitimité, les différents souverains qui se succèdent sur le trône iranien utilisent la production artistique pour se mettre en scène et affirmer leur domination. Ils élaborent ainsi des stratégies destinées aussi bien aux puissances étrangères qu’à la propagande interne, qui leur permettent de se poser en défenseurs de la religion, en protecteurs du peuple et en continuateurs d’une histoire longue aussi bien turque que persane. Inscriptions monumentales, grands travaux et restaurations et imagerie royale témoignent de cette recherche de légitimité par la culture matérielle, tant à Isfahan que dans le Khorasan et plus largement sur l’ensemble du territoire iranien.
Orientations bibliographiques :
Michael Axworthy, The Sword of Persia: Nader Shah, From Tribal Warrior to Conquering Tyrant, London : I. B. Tauris, 2009
Ernest S. Tucker. Nadir Shah’s quest for legitimacy in post-Safavid Iran. Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2006.
Pour suivre la séance : en distanciel (Zoom) ou en présentiel (Salle 3.15, INaLCO, 65 rue des Grands Moulins, Paris). Inscription obligatoire : http://www.inalco.fr/evenement/seminaire-cermi-societes-politiques-cultures-monde-iranien-1
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