Shii News – Academic Items
1.CFP: ‘Fragile Ecologies’, Middle Eastern Literatures
CFP for a special issue of Middle Eastern Literatures, ‘Fragile Ecologies: Environmental Urgency in the Literatures of the Middle East’.
This special issue of Middle Eastern Literatures proposes a reading of literatures that give voice to this agency of nonhuman ecologies, destabilising traditional geographic, historical, and generic boundaries. We welcome papers that address literary expressions of ecological urgency, in which the human is decentred, made vulnerable, and marked by an awareness of End Times or apocalypse. Over the past century, this may be related to growing tensions over water scarcity, the oil “curse”, waning biodiversity, worsening toxicity, and global warming. Yet previous literatures, too, have evoked climate-driven migration and warfare, and we are keen to explore the comparative possibilities they offer.
With this in mind, Middle Eastern Literatures seeks articles that respond to the theme of “Fragile Ecologies”. We welcome articles that address texts – whether literary or filmic – which directly concern this theme, as well as those in which it is a nagging, background concern. We welcome articles on both modern and pre-modern texts, and both poetry and prose, suggesting how we might address contemporary anxieties through the poetics of the past. Amitav Ghosh writes that “[…] the novel was midwifed into existence around the world, through the banishing of the improbable and the insertion of the everyday,” suggesting this turning away from the “improbable” as a major obstacle to writing the current climate crisis. What genres and aesthetics, then, are needed to address the improbability of climate crisis and apocalypse, the return of the nonhuman to our consciousness as an urgent, pressing agent of change, and the decentring of the human through freak weather events and imperceptible transformations to land and ecologies? Through these questions, we seek papers that address the fields of Energy Humanities and Ecocriticism from Middle Eastern perspectives, exploring the comparative possibilities of ecocritical reading, theorising genres of environmental writing, and the aesthetics of climate crisis.
Final articles due September 1, 2022.
https://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?journalCode=came20
For any queries, please email: meliteratures@gmail.com
2. Student Essay Prize – Society for the History of Discoveries
DEADLINE: JUNE 1, 2022
Areas of eligible research include: voyages of exploration, travel narratives, biography relevant to the history of discoveries and exploration, history, cartography, the technologies of travel, impact of travel and cultural exchange, and other aspects of geographic discovery and exploration.
Who is Eligible: Students from any part of the globe currently enrolled in a college or university degree program and who will not have received a doctoral degree prior to June 1 of the submission year. Note: Graduating high school or college students accepted into a program but who do not begin classes until fall of the submission year are NOT eligible.
The Research Paper: An eligible research paper shall be original and unpublished, written in English, between 3,000 and 8,000 words, plus footnotes or endnotes. Papers written for college or university class assignments are encouraged, but students may write specifically for this prize. A reasonable amount of illustrative and tabular material will be welcome, but is not required.
The winner of both the graduate and undergraduate categories will receive a cash prize and will be invited to present a version of the paper at the annual meeting of the Society for the History of Discoveries. Additionally, the awardee will be invited to submit the winning paper to the society’s peer reviewed journal, Terrae Incognitae, for which it will undergo the usual review process prior to formal acceptance for publication, of which there is no guarantee.
For more information and formatting instructions visit https://discoveryhistory.org/student-prize
SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS:
Submission Deadline: June 1
Electronic submissions only to:
Dr. Anne Good, committee chair agood@umn.edu
Subject line: SHD Student Prize
Questions? Contact Dr. Good, committee chair agood@umn.edu
3. Arab American Heritage Month screening of “Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Villifies a People” – in person
28 April, 2022 , 6.30 – 8.30 pm (Central Time)
3412 Crawford Street, Houston, TX 77004
For more information:
4. Near Eastern Studies and Digital Scholarship Conversations @IAS Joint Event
April 27, 12:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
The Preservation of Documentary Heritage
in the MENASA Region: The Role of the QNL
Stephane Ipert (Qatar National Library)
Stephane Ipert is the director of the distinctive collections (Heritage Library) in the Qatar National Library (QNL), a unique collection of rare books, manuscripts, maps and archival collections about Qatar and the Islamic world. Since 2015 the QNL is the IFLA PAC – Preservation and Conservation Center for Arabic countries and Middle East, (IFLA is the International Federation of Libraries Associations). Stephane has a background as conservator, art historian and lawyer. He is leading a regional project to counter documentary heritage trafficking in the MENASA region (Himaya) since 2021.
Register in advance for this event at https://bit.ly/37kIrH6
Hosted by Sabine Schmidtke (School of Historical Studies, IAS) and María Mercedes Tuya (Digital Scholarship, IAS). For additional information please email ds@ias.edu .
5. UCLA Bilingual Lecture Series – Dr Fatemeh Shams
Author of A Revolution in Rhyme: Poetic Co-option Under the Islamic Republic (Oxford University Press, 2021)
‘The Tension Between Poetry and Power in Post-Revolutionary Iran’
May 1, 2022 11:30 AM (PT)
Zoom link:
https://ucla.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_BxLDfiplTkOWcq6JhI6CEA
6. Les webinaires de l’IFRI / IFRI Webinar SERIES
Regards sur les arts du monde iranien [période islamique]. Dialogues franco-iraniens
Insights into the art of the Persianate societies [Islamic period]. French-Iranian dialogues
Mardi 26 avril 2022 / Tuesday 26th April 2022
3.00 pm (Paris time) / 5.30 pm (Tehran time)
on Skyroom
Regards sur l’épigraphie / Insights into Epigraphy
Chairperson: Nuria Garcia-Masip (Sorbonne Université)
Islamic Inscriptions from Medieval Afghanistan:
Innovations in the Content and Style of Royal Epigraphy
by Viola Allegranzi (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna)
Islamic Inscriptions from Medieval Afghanistan:
Funerary Texts as Sources for Local History
by Martina Massullo (BULAC – CollEx-Persée/CeRMI, Paris)
The quadruplet inscriptions on the commemorative pillar
of the Dorudzan dam in Ramjerd (Fars) from the Sassanid to the Qajar period
(in Farsi, with English translation)
by Emadaldin Sheikhalhokamaee (University of Tehran, Institute of Archaeology)
Language: English
To participate, please register before April 25th:
https://webquest.fr/?m=117785_regards-sur-l-epigraphie
contact: sandra.aube@cnrs.fr
7. Open Access Book – Variant Readings Of The Quran: A Critical Study of Their Historical and Linguistic Origins
Ahmad Ali Al-Imam
IIIT, 2022
8. Book Launch
Egypt’s Football Revolution
By Carl Rommel, with discussants
Leif Stenberg and Sevgi Adak.
29 April 2022 17:30-19:00 (London)
Aga Khan Centre, 10 Handyside Street, London N1C 4DN
9. Journal of Territorial and Maritime Studies
Call For Papers
Winter/Spring 2023 Issue Call for Papers
JTMS would like to extend a warm springtime greeting to all of our readers! With the Winter/Spring 2022 issue of out to readers and the Summer/Fall 2022 issue currently undergoing editorial review, JTMS is now soliciting manuscripts for the Winter/Spring 2023 issue. Authors wishing to be considered for inclusion in the Winter/Spring 2023 issue of JTMS should submit their manuscripts by September 1st, 2022.
JTMS is an interdisciplinary Journal of research on terrestrial and maritime territorial issues sponsored by the Northeast Asia History Foundation with editorial offices hosted by Yonsei University in South Korea, providing an academic medium for the announcement and dissemination of research results the fields of security studies, history, international law, international relations, geography, peace studies, and other relevant disciplines. The journal is indexed in SCOPUS and covers all continental areas across the world from a variety of disciplinary and methodological perspectives. Practical studies as well as theoretical works, which contribute to a better understanding of territorial and maritime issues, are also encouraged.
Articles should be submitted electronically to jtms@yonsei.ac.kr and include four major sections: the title page, structured abstract, main body, and references. The title page should contain the title of the paper, the author(s) name, the institutional affiliation and keywords. Manuscripts should follow the JTMS style guide available on our website by clicking “Submission Guidelines” via the site below.
A length of maximum 9,000 words is preferred for an article, including endnotes, 4,000 words for essays, and approximately 2,000 words for a book review. Authors wishing to be considered for the Winter/Spring 2023 issue must submit their manuscripts by no later than September 1st, 2022. Inquiries may be sent via the email address above.
For more information:
https://shoutout.wix.com/so/9eO0Z5XKV?languageTag=en
10. Isfahan Exhibition in Ireland (Video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXjx8ogoGrQ
(In Persian with English subtitles)
11. Annonce conférence publique La Grande muraille de Gorgan et la défense de la Perse sassanide, Louvre, 28/04/22, 12h30
Pour information: Conférence publique
Eberhard Sauer (Université d’Edimbourg), le 28 avril 2022, 12h30
12. Departmental Lecturer, Classical Arabic Literature
University of Oxford
The Faculty of Oriental Studies is seeking to appoint an enthusiastic and well qualified scholar to teach Classical Arabic literature. The Departmental Lecturer will support the teaching of the literatures of Arab societies in the Faculty of Oriental Studies, providing cover for some of the duties of the current AlBabtain Laudian Professor of Arabic (Julia Bray), who is retiring and being replaced by Professor Tahera Qutbuddin from summer 2023.
Deadline | 6 May 2022
13. Lecturer in the History of the Middle East
SOAS University of London
The School of History, Religions and Philosophies is looking for a one-year replacement covering the History of the Middle East for a colleague who will be on research leave during the 2022-2023 academic year. The preferred candidate will hold a PhD in History or a closely related discipline, be proficient in the regional languages relevant for their research, and have gained some initial teaching and supervision experience
Deadline | 8 May 2022
14. Call for Papers – Rethinking MENA and the Muslim World
Graduate Student Virtual Symposium | University of Alberta | 31 May 2022
Papers are invited for this interdisciplinary graduate-level online symposium that aims to bring together graduate students from all disciplines to critically examine a variety of topics relating to the MENA region and the larger Muslim contexts. All Master’s and PhD students with a research project on any aspect of socio-cultural, historical, religious, art and political issues in MENA and Muslim contexts are invited to submit an abstract of their presentation.
Deadline | 30 April 2022
15. 2022-23 CBRL open call grant applications
Council for British Research in the Levant (CBRL)
CBRL are accepting applications for the following:
- Project grants, up to £8,000;
- Residential fellowships at CBRL’s Jerusalem and/or Amman institutes, up to 3 months of accommodation, plus travel and subsistence costs;
- Travel grants, up to £1,000;
- Research support grants, up to £1,000 for selected costs associated with research for a post-graduate thesis.
Deadline | 20 May 2022
More information
16. ECHOES OF ORIENTALISM Arab-Islamic Sexuality through European Eyes: Burton and Beyond
DR FERAS ALKABANI (SUSSEX)
DeCol Collective Seminar Series
University of Brighton Wednesday, 4 May 2022, at 13.00-14.00
17. Middle East and Central Asia Music Forum (Monday, 23rd May 2022)
City, University of London
11:00 – 20:30
https://www.city.ac.uk/news-and-events/events/2022/may/middle-east-and-central-asia-music-forum
18. Call for Submissions – HIAA Majlis and HIAA Newsletter
The HIAA Majlis, held periodically in conjunction with the conference of the College Art Association (CAA), offers an opportunity for junior scholars in Islamic art to learn about their colleagues’ work and to connect with more senior scholars.
HIAA invites submissions from graduate students at ABD level or recent PhDs to present at its next Majlis, to take place in New York during CAA’s Annual Conference. [Note: Although we hope that the conference and associated programming will be held in person, in the event of continued restrictions on large gatherings, the Majlis will be held virtually]
HIAA invites proposals for 20-minute papers on current research focused on any topic, time period or region related to Islamic art, architecture, and archaeology.
Proposals should be submitted by email to HIAA secretary Fatima Quraishi at sec.hiaa@gmail.com as a single document which includes the following:
** a cover sheet with your name, academic status, contact information (postal address, e-mail address, telephone number/s) and title of proposed presentation
** an abstract of no more than 300 words
Proposals are due by June 15, 2022.
Please note that those selected to present at the Majlis must be current members of HIAA at the time of presenting.
19. Roshan Institute and Mona Farjad on May 1
Please join Roshan Institute for Persian Studies on Sunday, May 1 at 2 p.m. EST for a special conversation with Iranian actor Mona Farjad. Farjad will present an innovative series of monologues she has performed over the past year in dialogue with traditional Iranian theatrical practice and contemporary Iranian drama. Roshan Institute lecturer Dr. Marjan Moosavi will moderate this conversation as well as the following Q&A session.
To register, visit go.umd.edu/monafarjad or click on this link.
20. Syria Report, which is otherwise a commercial, subscription based resource has made 300 articles available free of charge.
“For the past 18 months The Syria Report has been covering housing, land, and property (HLP) rights stories across Syria. We have published news stories, analyses, a glossary of terms and expressions and interviews on various HLP aspects across all areas of control in Syria.
You can read them all on the following page:
https://syria-report.com/category/hlp/
As all Syria Report content, HLP section is searchable through our search engine. The same 300 articles are also available in Arabic. “
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