Shii News – Academic Items
1.AKU-ISMC
23 and 30 May 2022 Short Course – Mosques in Sub-Saharan Africa (Zoom)
2. Workshop on Typologies in the Islamic Ethical Discourse
Orient-Institut Beirut & American University of Beirut
March 10 to March 12, 2022
For attendance in person, please fill the form: https://forms.gle/z32LFhCzXrHSRtV99
[Please note that physical attendance is limited to 25. If the limit is already reached, your registration will be accepted for online attendance. You will be contacted, if you are registered for physical attendance.]
Live streaming:
https://live.starleaf.com/ODYyNzg6MDcwNTI2 (Day 1: 10. March 2022)
https://live.starleaf.com/ODYyNzg6NDQ4NjEw (Day 2: 11. March 2022)
https://live.starleaf.com/ODYyNzg6MzQ0MTI0 (Day 3: 12. March 2022)
For more information you may refer to our website: https://www.orient-institut.org/events/event-details/typologies-in-the-islamic-ethical-discourse/
3. The Institute of Ismaili Studies (IIS) is pleased to announce that applications for the Doctoral Scholarship are now open. The deadline for applications is 31 March 2022.
The IIS awards Doctoral Scholarships each year to suitable candidates who are interested in pursuing research at PhD level on a topic related to any of the Institute’s core research areas. The most relevant to the Institute’s research needs are:
- Ismaili studies
- Wider Shiʿi studies
- Qurʾanic studies
- Islamic law
- Education
- Manuscript studies
The scholarship is also open to any areas in which Islam can be analysed in one of its various manifestations (historical, theological, philosophical, legal, educational, political, ritual, cultural, etc.).
The Institute’s Doctoral Scholarships programme was established in 1997. Since then, more than 52 scholarships have been awarded. The Doctoral Scholarships are a vehicle for intellectual advancement, career progression and human resources development.
To apply, please download and complete the application form and submit it together with the required documents to scholarships@iis.ac.uk by 31 March. All documents must be submitted in PDF format.
The application form must be accompanied by:
- Cover letter
- Updated CV
- Personal Statement of Commitment
- Copies of graduate-level academic transcripts, including a copy of your Master’s diploma
- Copy of letter of acceptance to doctoral programme
- Three letters of recommendation
- Writing sample
- Doctoral research proposal
The IIS Doctoral Scholarships are available to Ismaili students from around the globe. Further information on eligibility can be found here.
Find out more about the Doctoral Scholarship Programme and how to apply.
For any other information, please email us on scholarships@iis.ac.uk.
4. From Erasure to Remembrance: Affective Memories of Egyptian Feminists – Hoda El Sadda (Online Lecture – MONDAY, MARCH 7, 2022 AT 3 PM – 4:15 PM EST)
https://uwmadison.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIuc-CvqDstE9RPGCMh8I4tDI3DHN6GFDOI?_x_zm_rtai…
This lecture will shed light on the political and intellectual trajectory of a pioneer suffragette in the history of Egyptian feminism, Duriyya Shafik, with the aim of exploring the processes of remembrance and forgetfulness of dissonant feminist voices in cultural memory. Shafik was an outspoken advocate for women and human rights throughout the 40s and 50s. In 1957 she was put under house arrest and her name banned from public life on account of her strong opposition to undemocratic practices by the President of the Republic. In the aftermath of the 25th of January revolution in Egypt in 2011, Duriyya’s memory was revived and celebrated widely and in diverse contexts. The new political realities characterized by a cycle of hope and despair, resulted in a revisionist journey into Egypt’s recent history, notably the 1950s and 60s, a period which also witnessed another revolutionary turbulence. Durriyya’s remembrance in the past decade was fueled by an affective dissonance, a state of feeling, that is at the same time individual, social and political, that recognizes the incongruous elements in the dominant narrative.
Hoda El Sadda is a professor of English and Comparative Literature at Cairo University. She is also a feminist and an activist for women’s rights. In 1992, she co-founded and co-edited Hagar, (1992-1996) an interdisciplinary journal in women’s studies published in Arabic. Her research interests are in the areas of gender studies, comparative literature and oral history. She is author of Gender, Nation and the Arabic Novel: Egypt: 1892-2008 (Edinburgh UP and Syracuse UP, 2012); and co-editor of Oral History in Times of Change: Gender, Documentation and the Making of Archives (Cairo Papers, 35:1, 2018).
5. Online Lecture:
How studies in Latin America & the Caribbean can challenge the scales of observation & omission that compartmentalize global Islam
Tuesday 15 March 2022 || 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
(Central European Time)
Join the Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies for a lecture by Dr. Ken Chitwood (Freie Universität Berlin) and a response by Prof. Dr. Claudia Derichs (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin).
Online: https://fu-berlin.us18.list-manage.com/track/click?u=218987e5c8b20ce72c5e7da24&id=6dfb27459f&e=f70992245e
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Despite attempts to broaden our understanding of Muslim networks and the scale of global Islam, most treatments continue to sideline or completely ignore Latin America and the Caribbean. These silences and omissions are in large part due to a dominant area studies discourse that continues to rely on center-periphery models and compartmentalizes regions and spaces according to “epistemic borderlines which have been drawn and grown during decades of constructing a ‘world order’ that is ultimately defined by political power relations.” (Derichs 2015)
In this presentation, Chitwood outlines a new research project exploring multiple networks and assemblages that not only shape the contemporary Muslim community in the Americas, but also form part of the entangled reality of global Islam in the late-modern world.
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6. University of Edinburgh: Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities
‘Decolonising Ideas: a new podcast series’
The Institute is delighted to announce the launch of a new podcast series, Decolonising Ideas, as part of the Institute Project on Decoloniality (IPD ’24).
Informed by the work of a variety of IASH Fellows, Decolonising Ideas aims to introduce listeners to the theories and practice of Decoloniality, explore the breadth of decolonial inquiry occurring at the Institute, and examine how IASH scholarship relates to broader issues of coloniality across the Global South and Global North.
Our first episode, ‘Decoloniality and the Arab Majority World’, features Alwaleed Postdoctoral Fellows Dr Nadeen Dakkak and Dr Ali Kassem as they discuss their scholarship, lived experience, and how their work is informed by and relates to theories of decoloniality.
For further information and to access the podcast at:
7. Zoom talk about the satirical periodical Molla Nasreddin (1906–1931)
Saturday, March 5th (4pm PST/ 7pm EST): A speech and conversation by Dr. Janet Afary (speaker) and Dr. Hasan Javadi (discussant) on the well-known satirical periodical Molla Nasreddin (1906–1931). As usual, we will start with the speaker’s speech, followed by a conversation between the speaker and the discussant, and closing with a Q&A session with the audience. You may also submit a question or two upon registration.
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TALK OVERVIEW: In the early 20th century, a group of artists and intellectuals in Transcaucasia reinterpreted a Middle Eastern trickster figure to construct a reformist and anti-colonial Muslim discourse with a strong emphasis on social and political reforms. Using folklore, visual art, and satire, their periodical Mollā Nasreddin reached tens of thousands of people in the Muslim world, impacting the thinking of a generation.
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SPEAKER: Janet Afary holds the Mellichamp Chair in Global Religion and Modernity at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she is a Professor of Religious Studies. She is a historian of modern Iran and has a PhD in History and Near East Studies from the University of Michigan, where her dissertation received the Distinguished Rackham Dissertation Award. Previously she taught at the Department of History and the Program in Women’s Studies at Purdue University, where she was appointed a University Faculty Scholar. Her books include: Sexual Politics in Modern Iran (Cambridge University Press, 2009, winner of the British Society for Middle East Studies Annual Book Prize); The Iranian Constitutional Revolution: Grassroots Democracy, Social Democracy, and the Origins of Feminism (Columbia University Press, 1996, winner of Dehkhoda Institute Book Awardj; and (with Kevin B. Anderson) Foucault and the Iranian Revolution: Gender and the Seductions of Islamism (University of Chicago Press, 2005, winner of the Latifeh Yarshater Book Award for Iranian Women’s Studies); (with John R. Perry) Charand-o Parand: Revolutionary Satire in Iran (Yale University Press, 2016), Honorable Mention Lois Roth Persian Translation Prize.
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DISCUSSANT: Hasan Javadi was born in Tabriz, Iran to a distinguished family of administrators and scholars. He has taught English and Persian literature at the University of Cambridge, Tehran University and the University of California at Berkeley. He is the author and translator of numerous books, including Satire in Persian Literature, and Persian Literary Influence on English Literature. For Mage he translated Obeyd-E Zakani: Ethics of the Aristocrats and Other Satirical Works. His translations include: Forough Farrokhzad’s Another Birth and Other Poems, and with Willem Floor, Abbas Qoli Aqa Bakikhanov’s The Heavenly Rose-Garden: A History of Shirvan & Daghestan; Evliya Chelebi’s Travels in Iran and the Caucasus, 1647 and 1654; and Wake Up Call: Memoirs of a Moslem Woman’s Struggle to Educate Her People, 1907-1931. He edited Letters From Tabriz: The Russian Suppression of the Iranian Constitutional Movement.
Now retired, Dr. Javadi lives in the Washington DC area, where he is working on original scholarship and translations of Persian literature.
8. Panel (March 11): What is the Value of the Persianate to Afghanistan Studies?
To register for “What is the Value of the Persianate to Afghanistan Studies?” (Friday, March 11; 9:30 AM – 11:00 AM Pacific time), please click here.
Panel description below:
In recent years, the study of the Persianate world has gained more momentum. Scholars have discussed and debated its meaning, utility, and value as a category of analysis for different disciplines, and cultural and historical geographies. This panel will interrogate the value of the Persianate for the study of Afghanistan and Afghan history by using this evolving framework and its attendant methodologies and presuppositions as a point of entry into myriad historical, literary, and cultural sources and questions.
Our discussion will span the 16th through the 20th centuries and includes analysis of a varied body of primary sources in different languages: royal autobiographies, chronicle geography, poetry, medical records, diasporic periodicals, and others. The desired outcome of this discussion will be to articulate a more locally differentiated and less romanticizing use of the Persianate in our current scholarly milieu.
Panelists:
Marjan Wardaki (Yale)
Nicolas Roth (Harvard)
Nicole Ferreira (UC Berkeley)
Discussant:
Aria Fani (University of Washington)
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Aria Fani | www.ariafani.com
Assistant Professor of Persian and Iranian Studies
University of Washington, Seattle
9. Farzaneh Family Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Iranian Studies, College of International Studies, University of Oklahoma
Deadline for Applications: April 10
The University’s Farzaneh Family Center for Iranian and Persian Gulf Studies invites applications for a two-year Farzaneh Family Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Iranian Studies. Disciplinary field is open. Applicants with a specialization in US-Iranian relations and/or the politics of contemporary Iran are especially encouraged to apply.
The term of the fellowship will begin on August 1st, 2022, at a salary of $40,000 per year, plus benefits and additional support for conference travel. Applicants must have received their PhD during the past five years, and no later than July 1st, 2022.
The fellow will be expected to be in residence at the University of Oklahoma during the term of the fellowship, teach one course per year in OU’s Dept. of International and Area Studies, organize a lecture series, and participate in the intellectual life of the Farzaneh Family Center for Iranian and Persian Gulf Studies.
In addition to a letter of application, applicants should include a full CV, two course descriptions for proposed courses to be taught at OU, a research statement describing the work they plan to complete during the term of the fellowship, full contact information (including email addresses) for two recommenders, and a statement on diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Review of applications will begin on April 10th and remain open until filled.
All application materials must be submitted via email to Stephanie Sager at the Department of International and Area Studies, at the following email address: dias@ou.edu
For inquiries contact: Afshin Marashi (amarashi@ou.edu )
The mission of the Farzaneh Family Center for Iranian and Persian Gulf Studies is to coordinate a variety of teaching, research, and outreach activities at the University of Oklahoma that explore the history, culture, society, and politics of Iran, the Persian Gulf, and those regions historically shaped by the Persian language.
For more information about the Farzaneh Center see:
https://www.ou.edu/cis/sponsored_programs/farzaneh-family-center
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