Shii News – Academic Items
1. ONLINE Lecture “New Iranian Horror: Theorizing an Emerging Trend in Iranian Cinema” by Farshid Kazemi (Simon Fraser University), University of Toronto, 22 April 2022, 4:00 pm ET
Zoom registration: https://utoronto.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIsd-mrqz0sEtx3IFDmhTGF5vnsP5mZVy9k
2. ONLINE “LexiQamus Info Session” (Ottoman Turkish) with Dr. Abdullah Saçmalı, 29 April 2022, 11:00 am ET
LexiQamus, is a web-based Ottoman Turkish dictionary that draws data from 19 different dictionaries and including approximately 173,000 words and phrases. The LexiQamus database is an important technology that unlocks unreadable words for any historian who knows the difficulties of reading handwriting. Information and zoom registration:
https://nyu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcsfu6qqT4qHNI7bRTCHK2jLY1_xAll2Y4X
3. HYBRID Rencontre Mercredis de l’IREL : « Les minorités religieuses en France – Panorama de la diversité contemporain », débat avec Anne-Laure Zwilling et Isabelle Rivoal, Paris, 18 mai 2022, 18h30 – 20h
Information et s´inscrire : https://irel.ephe.psl.eu/actualites/mercredi-lirel-minorites-religieuses-france
4. HYBRID “Undergraduate Students` Session” at the “55th Seminar for Arabian Studies”, Humboldt University of Berlin, 7 August 2022
This session focuses on the linkage between students working on or interested in archaeology and epigraphy of the Arabian Peninsula. We therefore invite undergraduate and graduate students especially from these research areas to participate. Deadline for abstracts: 6 May 2022.
Information: https://mailchi.mp/917462a4d48d/call-for-papers?e=18cf0337f7
5. HYBRID Annual Conference of the Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS, Including Iran, Afghanistan etc.), Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 20-23 October 2022
We invite submissions relating to all aspects of humanities and social science scholarship. The geographic domain of Central Eurasia encompasses Central Asia, the Caucasus, Iran, Afghanistan, Tibet, Mongolia, Siberia, Inner Asia, the Black Sea region, the Volga region, and East and Central Europe. Practitioners and scholars in all fields with an interest in this region are encouraged to participate. Deadline for abstracts: 15 May 2022. Information: http://www.centraleurasia.org/conferences/annual/
6. Lecturer (Assistant Professor, 3 Years) in Turkish Cultural History, Trinity College Dublin
Applicants must hold a PhD and have a strong research profile appropriate to their career stage. Applications from candidates with a specialisation in the social and/or cultural history of the Ottoman Empire will be particularly welcome.
Deadline for applications: 16 May 2022. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announce-ments/10108148/featured-job-lecturer-yunus-emre-institute-lectureship-turkish
7. Lecturer in the Modern Middle East with a Focus on Iran or Turkey (3 Years), Harvard University
By “modern,” we mean encompassing at least the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries. We welcome var-ious disciplines, including, but not limited to, political, economic, social or cultural history. Deadline for application: 1 May 2022. Information: https://academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/11193
8. Lecturer in Classical and Qur’anic Arabic, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Applicants should have Superior level proficiency in Qur’anic and Classical Arabic and English. Experience with teaching Arabic at the post-secondary level is required. Applicants must have a demonstrated under-standing of and ability to use a proficiency-based, communicative methodology in language instruction. Min-
imum of a Master’s degree in foreign language teaching or equivalent field required. Deadline for application: 29 April 2022. Information: https://apply.interfolio.com/104863
9. Visiting Assistant Professor of Asian History / Islamicate World, Kenyon College, Ohio
Candidates should have a record of excellent teaching and a Ph.D. in hand or be near completion by the beginning of the appointment (July 2022). Open until filled.
Information: https://careers.kenyon.edu/en-us/job/492837/visiting-assistant-professor-of-asian-history
10. Intercultural Program (SALAM) to Learn Arabic: Courses of 2, 4, or 8 Weeks in Jordan in 2022, Aqaba University of Technology
This program is not only designed to learn the Arabic language but also is aiming to introduce the participants from all over the world to the ancient history, tradition, heritage, and social life of Jordan and its distinguished flora and fauna.
Information: http://salam.aut.edu.jo/Salam_Program
11. Entries for the “Encyclopaedia of Islamic Economics and Finance” (Palgrave)
The encyclopaedia that will present a solid framework for the elaboration of the major concepts of the subject will make use of the existing academic literature, as well as theological sources and the history of Islam and of Islamic financial practices. The goal in doing this is to present the historical theoretical framework as well as the modern and contemporary views and tendencies. Deadline for abstracts: 1 September 2022. Information: https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/10103011/call-entries-palgrave-encyclopedia-islamic-economics-and
12. UCLA Bilingual Lecture Series – Mina Khanlarzadeh
‘The Performance of Female Masculinity in Lalehzari Music’
Sunday, May 15, 2022 at 11:30am Pacific Time via Zoom
Lecture in Persian
13. The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) will be hosting the Western Ottomanists’ Workshop (WOW)in personon November 18-19, 2022. (Friday Saturday) Some panels will be available for Zoom participation. WOW 2022 organizers encourage interested graduate students with works in progress to apply for this workshop using this Google Form. Funding for travel and accommodation is available for graduate students. Graduate applicants who need funding should follow the instructions in the form to be considered for funding.
Faculty members, instructors, adjuncts and independent scholars interested to attend should also get in touch using the Google Form; we would love to welcome you in person!
The deadline for applications and RSVPs is August 1st 2022.
Baki Tezcan, President of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association (OTSA) will be moderating the keynote panel featuring Sebouh Aslanian and Christine Philliou.
Heather Ferguson, editor of Journal of Ottoman and Turkish Studies (JOTSA), will be conducting a professionalization workshop about academic publishing for graduate students and early career scholars. Senior scholars will also be present to share their experiences on the review process.
WOW was founded in 2010 to bring together scholars and researchers based in the Western regions of the United States who are working to advance the study of the Ottoman Empire and its interactions with the wider world from the period of the late thirteenth century up until the early decades of the twentieth century.
Two years into this pandemic, many of us have not had a chance to meet each other in person. WOW 2022 aims to provide a space for in-person meeting, discussion, feedback, and conversation. Join us!
Please direct all queries to WOWUCLAWOW@gmail.com . Applications for WOW 2022 will only be accepted via the Google Form.
14. Hybrid event: The World of Ancient Iran and the West, a joint conference of the Pourdavoud Center and Getty Villa
The World of Ancient Iran and the West
An International Symposium
Convened by
Rahim Shayegan (University of California, Los Angeles)
Jeffrey Spier (J. Paul Getty Museum)
May 19–20, 2022 | 314 Royce Hall
In person registration and Zoom information at:
https://pourdavoud.ucla.edu/event/the-world-of-ancient-iran-and-the-west/
The Pourdavoud Center for the Study of the Iranian World and the Getty are convening for a third year an international symposium on the exchanges between ancient Iran and the Classical world. This year’s symposium, held at UCLA over two days (May 19 and 20, 2022), will mark the launch of the exhibit, Persia: Ancient Iran and the Classical World at the Getty Villa in the spring of 2022. The symposium, will include invited speakers, UC faculty, and Getty scholars, whose research pertain to the nexus between ancient Persia and the West.
This hybrid event is free and open to the public, but pre-registration is requested. In-person seating is limited and will be available on a first-come, first-served basis. Alternatively, guests unable to attend in person will be able to watch a live stream of the lectures. This event will adhere to all COVID-19 related guidelines as set by the University of California, Los Angeles.
Questions? Email Dr. Marissa Stevens (stevensma@humnet.ucla.edu)
Schedule:
May 19, 2022
9:00 am – Introductions
9:30 am – Panel I: Achaemenid Persia and the West
Lindsey Allen (King’s College, London)
The Boundaries of Kingship: Objects and Relationships at the Margins
John Ma (Columbia University)
Achaemenid Cultural History and the Hellenistic World
Jeffrey Spier (J. Paul Getty Museum)
Achaemenid Seals: East and West
John O. Hyland (Christopher Newport University)
Celebrating Achaemenid Victories: A Glyptic Triumphal Motif and its Greek and Egyptian Victims
2:30 pm – Panel II: Achaemenid Persia and the West (2)
Hilmar Klinkott (University of Kiel)
How to Govern an Empire? The Inscriptions of Darius I As a Constitutional Program
Robert Rollinger (University of Innsbruck)
The Achaemenid Persian Empire and the West: A Structural Approach
- Rahim Shayegan (University of California, Los Angeles)
Universality and Alterity in the Achaemenid World
May 20, 2022
9:00 am – Introductions
9:30 am – Panel III: The Hellenistic and Parthian Age
Sara E. Cole (J. Paul Getty Museum)
Persia: Ancient Iran and the Classical World at the Getty Villa
Matthew Canepa (University of California, Irvine)
Parthian Silver and the Creation and Contestation of Aristocracies in Post-Hellenistic Iran
Jake Nabel (Pennsylvania State University)
Parthia, Rome, and the Horizons of Ancient Diplomacy
2:00 pm – Panel IV: Iran and Rome in late Antiquity and Beyond
David Potter (University of Michigan)
Western Sources for the Sasanians
Touraj Daryaee (University of California, Irvine)
Ardashir I, the Early Sasanians, and Reorienting the Near East and the Caucasus
Olga M. Davidson (Boston University)
How the Persian Book of Kings by Ferdowsi about the Ancient Royal Dynasties of Iran Could Ever Become a World Epic for the So-Called West
Ali Mousavi (University of California, Los Angeles)
Takht-e Soleyman, Sasanians, Romans, and Mongols: Reflections on the Life and Afterlife of a Sacred Place
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