Shii News – Academic Items
1.Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East
The Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East is a reference work to expand both scholarly and educated public understanding of a critical period of human history. HIMME provides search and browse interfaces for accessing tens of thousands of entries about medieval Middle Eastern people, places, and cultural practices (such as Qur’an recitation, funerals, or taxation).
2. ONLINE Roundtable ” Rethinking Land, Labor, and Capital in Egypt”, Crown Center for Middle East Studies, Brandeis University, 6 April 2022, 11:00 am EST
Leading scholars of Egypt will challenge conventional histories of the modern Middle East and rethink the categories of land, labor, and capital. Aaron Jakes will revisit the long history of the Suez Canal to question concepts central to rentier state theory. Ahmad Shokr will reconceptualize the institutions that dominated the production and trade of Egyptian cotton as a type of hybrid monopoly.
Information and registration: https://brandeis.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_hQndZCstQUKX6Wbj-rWn1w
3. ONLINE Webinar: “Can Gulf States End the Yemen War?”, Middle East Institute, National University of Singapore, 6 April 2022, 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm SGT
This webinar will discuss the latest developments in the Yemen war and their broader implications for the region – be it in terms of terrorism trends, Gulf-Iran relations or US security policy towards the Middle East.
Information and registration: https://mei.nus.edu.sg/event/can-gulf-states-end-the-yemen-war/
4. ONLINE Webinar: “The Arabian Nights in Contemporary World Cultures: Global Commodifica-tion, Translation, and the Culture Industry” with Prof. Muhsin al-Musawi (Columbia University, New York), Center of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Oslo, 8 April 2022, 2:15-3:30 PM CEST
Al-Musawi shows how the Arabian Nights has been translated, appropriated, and authenticated or abused over time, and how its reach is so expansive as to draw the attention of poets, painters, illustrators, translators, editors, musicians, political scientists like Leo Strauss, and novelists like Michel Butor, James Joyce and Marcel Proust amongst others. Making use of documentaries, films, paintings, novels and novellas, poetry, digital forums and political jargon, this book offers nuanced understanding of the perennial charm and power of this collection.
Information and registration: https://www.hf.uio.no/ikos/english/research/center/islamic-and-middle-east-studies/events/thursday-friday%20seminar/2022/the-arabian-nights-in-contemporary-world-cultures-.html
5. International Research Workshop: „Nation States and the Qur’an: Translators, Narratives and Debates in the Post-Soviet Space“, Department of Islamic Studies, University of Freiburg, Ger-many, 14-15 October 2022
This workshop will gather translators, publishers and other experts in the field of
Qur’anic Studies presenting their works on the following issues: • Debates around the production of Qur’an translations after 1991. • Securitisation & the Qur’an: State-supported and independent projects. • The most important transnational actors in the field of translations. • The Qur’anic audience and the specific features of Post-Soviet readership. Etc.
Deadline for abstracts: 1 June 2022. Information: https://gloqur.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/CfP_Quran-Post-Soviet.pdf
6. Panel on “Muslims in America” during “SAMLA 94”, the Annual Conference of the “South Atlantic Modern Language Association”, Jacksonville, FL, 11-13 November 2022
This panel intends to examine the works of Muslim American poets, novelists, playwrights, musicians, per-formers, filmmakers, and visual artists. Panelists might consider how these writers and artists employ different media in their mapping of modifications in cultural, political, and religious landscapes.
Deadline for abstracts: 29 June 2022. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/10025577/muslims-america
7. PhD Studentship (Sep. 2022 – Sep. 2025, Fully Funded) in Art History, Project LAHWA “Lebanon’s Art World at Home and Abroad”, Ca’Foscari University of Venice and Orient-Institut Beirut
LAWHA aims to identify new methods on how to interrelate context and artistic production, to serve as a model for revisiting art histories in contexts where institutionalized local art histories have largely been absent. LAWHA is concerned mainly with the time period between Lebanon’s independence from France in 1943 and the official end of its civil war in 1990. Research proposals within the overall frame of LAWHA’s research questions will be considered.
Deadline for applications: 2 May 2022. Information: https://lawha.hypotheses.org/346
8. Postponed:
Hybrid Event – Award Of The RAS Medal To Professors Robert And Carole Hillenbrand – Thursday 7th April 6.30
Please join us at 6.30pm on Thursday April 7th for the Award of the RAS Medal to Professors Carole and Robert Hillenbrand.
The prize giving will be preceded by two lectures:
The Golden Age of the Turks? The Seljuqs in the World History of Rashid al-Din by Prof. Carole Hillenbrand
Ilkhanid Images of Majesty: the Seljuq monarchs in the World History of Rashid al-Din by Prof. Robert Hillenbrand
When you register, please specify whether you plan to attend at the Society ‘in person’ or ‘online only’.
You can register by emailing Matty Bradley at mb@royalasiaticsociety.org
Free and open to all at Royal Asiatic Society, 14 Stephenson Way, London NW1 2HD.
9. [CeRMI] Rappel Séminaire mensuel du CeRMI jeudi prochain 7 avril
Nous vous rappelons que la prochaine séance du séminaire “Sociétés, politiques et cultures du monde iranien” organisé par le CeRMI, aura lieu le jeudi 7 avril 2022 en mode hybride. Nous y accueillerons Frantz Grenet (professeur au Collège de France, « Histoire et cultures de l’Asie centrale préislamique ») et Anca Dan (chargée de recherche, Archéologie et Philologie d’Orient et d’Occident (AOROC), CNRS PSL), pour une conférence intitulée :
« La connaissance de la littérature gréco-romaine reflétée sur quelques vases d’argent d’Asie centrale (IIIe-VIe s. de n.è.) ».
(Résumé et bibliographie en fichier joint)
Veuillez noter qu’à l’occasion de la réception d’accueil des universitaires et étudiants afghans organisée par la Fondation Inalco, le présentiel de cette séance de séminaire se tiendra exceptionnellement au 2, rue de Lille, dans l’auditorium, de 17h à 18h30.
ATTENTION : les inscriptions pour le présentiel sont closes
Participez à ce séminaire en distanciel sur la plateforme Zoom:
https://zoom.us/j/99773774662?pwd=YmRwbW4zbGQyeUZ3QmUwYzMzMk5yUT09
ID de réunion : 997 7377 4662
Code secret : CeRMI
10. ANN: Mapping Ottoman heritage in Greece – new interactive map site
This interactive new web map site also provides bibliographies for specific places via Zotero links. Worth looking at. Also offers link to webside CARTO for building similar maps.
11. Webcast “Urbanization and ‘‘re-Islamization’’ in Postcolonial Egypt”
On Tuesday 12 April, Dr. Panos Kourgiotis, Hellenic Open University, will deliver a lecture online entitled “Urbanization and ‘‘re-Islamization’’ in Postcolonial Egypt: Al-Jamʿiyyāt al-Islamiyya and the Muslim Brotherhood”; this event will be hosted by the University of Religions and Denominations. Dr. Kourgiotis’s presentation is based on his recent paper which has been accepted for publication in the journal of Islamic Inquiries. For further details, please follow the links below:
Facebook: https://fb.me/e/1mXhu2GM0
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/events/urbanizationand-re-islamization6916319527559454721/about/
You are cordially invited to attend this webcast.
With kind regards
Seyyed Abolhasan Navvab
Editor-in-Chief /President of the University of Religions and Denominations, Qom, Iran
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