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1.GVSU – History of Tech/History of Medicine and US and/or World Surveys

Position Title:   Department of History, Grand Valley State University, Two (2) Visiting Assistant Professorship Positions, 2022-2023: 1) History of Technology/History of Medicine and 2) World History and/or US History

Summary:  The Department of History at Grand Valley State University invites applications for full-time Visiting (non-tenure-track) appointments for the 2022-2023 academic year, with the possibility for renewal, at the rank of Visiting Assistant Professor (or at the rank of Visiting Instructor if ABD).

  • For the History of Technology/Medicine position, the teaching load of four courses per semester will include surveys in the History of Technology and upper division surveys in the History of Medicine and Health. Region and time period of specialization are open
  • For the World History and/or US History position, the teaching load of four courses per semester will include surveys in World and/or US History. Candidates who can teach both World History and US History surveys and have areas of expertise in the following areas are encouraged to apply: Global History, East Asian History, European History, African History and/or US African-American History, US Latinx History, US Asian-American History.

The History Department is especially interested in receiving applications from candidates from underrepresented groups, and from candidates who have interest and/or experience in working with diverse student and community populations. Grand Valley State University is an affirmative action and equal opportunity institution.

Required Qualifications and Education:

  • ABD in History PhD program or related field.
  • Experience in, demonstrated understanding of, or interest in social justice education and/or initiatives, and/or inclusion, diversity, and/or intercultural training.
  • Strong communication and interpersonal skills, such as the ability to interact with others with respect and empathy.

Preferred Qualifications and Education:

  • in History or related field.
  • Teaching experience at the university level.

Responsibilities:

  • Teaching four, three-credit courses per semester.

Salary/Benefits

The salary is competitive and commensurate with experience. The university offers an excellent comprehensive package that includes health/vision/dental plans, life insurance, retirement, sick/leave disability, tuition waiver, adoption resources, wellness coaching, and free access to campus fitness facilities. Family and child care options on and off-campus are also available. For a detailed description of benefits, please visit Visiting Faculty Benefits – Benefits and Wellness – Grand Valley State University (gvsu.edu).

Department/College:  The Department of History consists of over thirty faculty committed to excellence in undergraduate teaching, cutting-edge scholarship, and public outreach and engagement. It also oversees a robust program in Social Studies Education, with dedicated faculty experts in this field. The faculty’s subfields of expertise range from US to African, European, East Asian, South Asian, Latin American, and Global History and include the subfields of Public History and the History of Science/Medicine/Technology. The department values a collegial teaching and working environment.

The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (CLAS) is the largest college at Grand Valley, offering over 50 bachelor degrees and a growing number of advanced degrees in the natural and mathematical sciences, the fine arts and humanities, and the social sciences. CLAS is a student-centered and diverse learning community that engages in critical inquiry, extending knowledge to enrich and enliven individual and public life. Our faculty are active teacher-scholars committed to equitable, inclusive, career-connected, and community-engaged liberal arts and sciences education. There are many opportunities for collaboration within CLAS and across a broad group of partners on and off campus. We are interested in attracting a cohort of new faculty committed to these core values as we seek to foster a community where members from all backgrounds can live, learn, and thrive together.

Campus/University:  Grand Valley University (GVSU) is a public comprehensive institution located in West Michigan with campuses in Allendale, downtown Grand Rapids, and Holland, plus centers in Detroit, Muskegon and Traverse City. The University attracts more than 23,000 undergraduate and graduate students with high quality programs and state-of-the-art facilities, and has been nationally recognized for innovativeness and its contribution to students’ social mobility. The greater Grand Rapids metropolitan area has a population of around one million people, is affordable, and offers rich cultural amenities. Grand Valley is located within easy driving distance of Chicago, Detroit, Lake Michigan beaches, and many other superb summer and winter recreational venues. Information can be found at Community Resources – Human Resources – Grand Valley State University (gvsu.edu). Grand Valley is highly rated for safety, sustainability, and veteran and LGBTQ friendliness, and is committed to supporting employees and their families in work-life balance.

How to Apply: Interested candidates should submit via email to hstdept@gvsu.edu (with attention to Dr. Michael Huner, Chair, Department of History): (1) a cover letter addressing qualifications and your motivation to teach for the History Department at GVSU, (2) curriculum vitae, (3) a statement of teaching philosophy that includes a commitment to inclusive excellence and a summary of ongoing and anticipated activities to promote diversity, inclusion, and equity (4) sample syllabi from a survey course and an upper-level course (5) two letters of reference, and (6) graduate transcripts (unofficial transcripts issued to students are acceptable to apply).

Email questions about the positions to: Dr. Michael Huner, hunerm@gvsu.edu

Application Deadline:  The review process will begin on June 1, 2022, and continue until the positions are filled. The posting may be closed at any time at the discretion of the University.

 

 

 

2. Call for Papers: The Perspective of the Countryside in the Medieval Arab-Islamic World: The Ninth International Society for Arabic Papyrology (ISAP) Conference (Fayoum, 6–9 March 2023)

The majority of papyri from the Arab-Islamic world relate to the countryside, yet most modern studies focus on cities. The ISAP IX Conference hopes to shift the attention from urban elites to rural realities by exploring what documentary sources can tell us about the perspective of the inhabitants of the countryside. Texts preserved on papyri and other writing surfaces include stories of villagers often in their own words rather than from the perspective of outsiders. These everyday documents written in Egyptian villages in Arabic, Coptic, Greek, and other languages allow us to study the economy, religion, family life, agriculture, administration, mentalities, culture and many other facets of life in the countryside. Documents written in the cities, such as the Geniza corpus, also reveal rich details of life in the Egyptian countryside. We encourage participants to approach these topics from an interdisciplinary angle: materials from related fields, such as archaeology, hold untapped potential for papyrology. Comparison with other pre-modern rural societies are also particularly welcome, including documents written outside Egypt and longue durée perspectives.

Conference languages will be English, German, French, and Arabic. However, all lectures will be given in English.

Proposing a presentation:

Please send a 300-400-word abstract to Theresa Grabmaier (theresa.grabmaier at campus.lmu.de) no later than 1 August, 2022. Notification regarding the acceptance of proposals will be made by 1 December, 2022.

Participation with no presentation:

Pure attendance will be free. Please send a notice of intent to participate to Theresa Grabmaier (theresa.grabmaier at campus.lmu.de).

Conference fees:

There will be a conference fee of Euro 75 (25 for students and those without tenure-track positions). Participation in the conference will also require the payment of membership dues in ISAP (annual fee of Euro 25/15). Information on membership can be found on the ISAP website (www.naher-osten.lmu.de/isap). Conference and membership fees can be paid on site.

Conference organizers:

Lajos Berkes (New Testament Studies, HU Berlin); Ursula Hammed (Bsees) (Arabic and Islamic Studies, LMU Munich); Maher A. Eissa (Egyptology, Fayoum University); Andreas Kaplony (Arabic and Islamic Studies, LMU Munich); Marie Legendre (Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Edinburgh); Matt Malczycki (History, Auburn University); Marina Rustow (Near Eastern Studies and History, Princeton University); Naïm Vanthieghem (IHRT, Section arabe, CNRS Paris); Khaled Younes (University of Sadat City).
Travel subsidies:

It is hoped that the conference partners will be able to offer travel subsidies for scholars unable to obtain institutional funding for travel to Egypt and accommodation. Please let us know as soon as possible whether you plan to apply for a trqvel subsidy.
Further questions: 

If you have any further questions about the conference, please contact Andreas Kaplony (andreas.kaplony at lmu.de).

 

 

 

3. Open Access Book: Amulets and Talismans of the Middle East and North Africa in Context

Editors: Marcela A. Garcia Probert and Petra M. Sijpesteijn

Brill, 2022

https://brill.com/view/title/60946

 

 

 

 

4. The Board of the Ibero-Medieval Association of North America welcomes your proposals for panels at next year’s International Congress on Medieval Studies, in Ibero-Medieval studies, broadly and diversely conceived.  All relevant themes are welcome but we particularly welcome  interdisciplinary and cross-cultural work, work attending to issues relating to diversity within our languages and domains, and diverse particiants.

Here is the ICMS’ announcement regarding next year’s format:

The 58th International Congress on Medieval Studies will include traditional in-person sessions, virtual sessions via our online platform and some new blended-format sessions that make it possible for speakers to present and audiences to attend both in-person and online. We welcome proposals for sessions and papers both from scholars planning to attend ICMS on the ground here in Kalamazoo and those attending virtually from around the world.

IMANA also welcomes international participation, and commits to accommodating virtual attendance as much as possible.

While IMANA’s structure etc. will be discussed Friday 13 May at 11 a.m. during the Business Meeting (be there!!!), the deadline for panel proposals remains 1 June 2022, which leaves us very little time to vet panels for IMANA sponsorship, hence this call for sponsored sessions.  IMANA is also very open to co-sponsoring with other organizations, whether specifically Iberian or focused around broader areas or topics.

Here’s the ICMS page on proposals: https://wmich.edu/medievalcongress/submissions

Please submit proposals to the Board at your earliest convenience via this Google form: https://forms.gle/HqEU5Z32peTf6ZXSA

The Board — listed below — will consider your proposal and get back to you as soon as possible.  This is a rather compressed time-frame of about 2 weeks, so we have to move quickly.

For any questions, you may contact me or any member of the Board.

 

A la espera de vuestras propuestas,

Linde M. Brocato, on behalf of the IMANA Board:

John Bollweg

Jes Boon

Robin M. Bower

Matt Desing

Emily Francomano

Ross Karlan

Nasser Meerkhan

Nuria Silleras-Fernández

 

 

 

 

5. The Department of Arab and Islamic Civlizations (ARIC) at the American University in Cairo (AUC) is holding a memorial celebration of the life of Dr Chahinda Karim (1943-2021). The memorial will take place on Saturday 14 May, 2022 at 6.00-8.00pm, in Oriental Hall, AUC Tahrir Square Campus and will be streamed via Zoom. The event will include a launch of her posthumously published book Ottoman Cairo: Religious Architecture from Sultan Selim to Napoleon (AUC Press, 2021). Tributes will be followed by a reception in the fountain area.

All are welcome. Proof of vaccination may be requested at the gate.

 

 

 

 

6. Arab World English Journal for Translation & Literary Studies (AWEJTLS) welcomes the submission of papers for a Special Issue of the Literature of Laughter. We have the honor to announce that the guest editor for this issue is Professor Manfred Malzahnfrom United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, UAE. The issue publication date is December 2022. The deadline for the manuscript submissions is August 31,  More
For more information, visit the AWEJ for Translation and Literary Studies on https://awej-tls.org/ Before sending your paper, please read the submission and Manuscript Guidelines for AWEJ for Translation & Literary Studies. Please submit your paper online or send it as an attachment to: Info@awej.org

kind regards,
Arab World English Journal for
Translation & Literary Studies (AWEJTLS)
https://awej-tls.org/

 

 

 

7. Inperson/Zoom:

Centenaire de la Délégation Archéologique Française en Afghanistan

SPLENDEUR DES GRANDS SITES D’AFGHANISTAN :

CENT ANS DE COOPÉRATION ARCHÉOLOGIQUE

le samedi 21 mai 2022 de 9h à 17h, auditorium de l’INHA

(2 rue Vivienne 75002 Paris)

Inscription gratuite: https://www.eventbrite.fr/e/332015716947  ;

lien Zoom :

https://cnrs.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJclc-yvrDssHdYR19TngrF15keOwTOVfp7L

 

 

 

8. “The World Zoroastrian Organisation’s Annual Seminar”

Seminar Theme: Zoroastrian Iran soon after the arrival of Islam

Date: Sunday 5th June

Time: 10.30am

Address:  World Zoroastrian House, 1 Freddie Mercury Close, Feltham TW13 5DF UK

This free seminar can be booked by contacting Anahita Madon via email Anahita.madon@w-z-o.org or text 07493.208.876.

 

 

 

 

9. Archaeology, Politics and Islamicate Cultural Heritage in Europe

Edited by David J. Govantes-Edwards, Newcastle University

Series: Monographs in Islamic Archaeology edited by Bethany J. Walker (University of Bonn) and Asa Eger (University of North Carolina, Greensboro)

242pages, 42 colour and black and white illustrations

Available in hardback and ebook editions

https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/archaeology-politics/ 

 

 

 

 

10. Nasrin Askari’s critical edition of the Mūnis-nāma, compiled by Abū Bakr b. Khusrau al-Ustād and dedicated to the Eldigüzid atabeg of Azerbaijan Nuṣrat al-Dīn Abū Bakr (r. 1191–1210), has just been published by the Bunyād-i Mauqūfat-i Duktur Maḥmūd Afshār in Tehran.

The Munis-nāma blurs the lines traditionally drawn between Persian “folk” and “elite” literature, thus providing a fascinating source for studying the two realms as parts of a larger whole. Discussing the supremacy of poetry over prose in his detailed introduction, the compiler explicitly mentions the female members of the royal court as the book’s targeted audience. Among the important features of the Mūnis-nāma are:

  1. The earliest known Persian version of a collection of tales, generically known as Jāmiʿ al-ḥikāyāt, previously known representatives of which were written down in the 17th-19th centuries. The tales correspond to the Ottoman Turkish tales in Faraj baʿd al-shidda, dating from the 14th-15th centuries, a French adaptation of some of which was produced in the early 18th century as Les Mille et un jours.
  2. Numerous passages in Persian that closely correspond to passages in Jāvīdan Khirad of Miskawayh (Muskuya). Although the compiler mentions the title of the Kitāb-i Jāvīdān Khirad, he presumably had access to a version different from Muskuya’s Jāvīdān Khirad.
  3. Aḥmad Ghazzālī’s Risālat al-ṭayr, copies of which are rare.

http://mahmoudafshar.ir/entesharat/%d9%85%d9%88%d9%86%d8%b3%e2%80%8c%d9%86%d8%a7%d9%85%d9%87/

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