Shii News – Academic Items
1.The Islamic College – Monthly Seminar:
A New Silk Road? Mercantile Connections across Asia
A Talk by Dr Paul Sanderson
Tuesday 13 December 2022
6 pm – 8 pm (London time)
Register at: https://islamic-college.ac.uk/monthly-seminar-new-silk-road/
2. Call for Papers: International Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature
Qur’an and Islamic Tradition in Comparative Perspective Unit at the International Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature (https://www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_CallForPaperDetails.aspx?MeetingId=42&VolunteerUnitId=518).
The conference is planned to be held between 3 – 7 July 2023. SBL plans to hold the conference in Pretoria, South Africa. It is a great and welcoming opportunity to have the International SBL hosted in the Global South. The last and only other time it was specifically hosted in Africa was in 2000 (and a lot has changed in the world since then). If you have never been to beautiful South Africa before, this is an opportunity.
The deadline for proposals is on 31 January 2023.
3. Our call for papers for the 2023 BRISMES Conference ‘Ecology, Crisis, and Power in the Middle East’at the University of Exeter has been extended, and will close at 5 PM (GMT) on 21 December 2022.
Please read the conference’s main theme; additionally, we encourage proposals on any topic related to the Middle East and North Africa.
We invite submissions from social sciences and humanities scholars and professionals working in the environmental field. Submissions from the Global South, from the Middle East region and from people from under-represented groups are especially welcomed. We also accept the inclusion of panels/roundtables in non-English languages spoken in the MENA region.
BRISMES will operate a Solidarity Fund for colleagues without institutional funding or facing financial hardship. So please do apply if you don’t have funds to support your attendance.
For those who are in secure positions, please donate to the fund to ensure your colleagues in more precarious jobs can join us in Exeter. The application will be made available with the opening of the registration period.
Please take a look at the instructions for submission and submit your individual/co-authored paper, panel or roundtable by the deadline.
4. Call for Papers: AWEJ for Translation and Literary Studies ( February Issue 2023)
Arab World English Journal for Translation and Literary Studies welcomes the submission of papers for the February Issue – 2023. The deadline for manuscript submission is December 30, 2022. The issue publication date is February Issue 2023. For more information, please click here.
We have the pleasure of sending the full issue of AWEJ for Translation & Literary Studies Volume 6 Number 4. October 2022
For individual papers, click here
With our best wishes,
Kind regards,
AWEJ for Translation & Literary Studies
https://awej-tls.org/
5. Webinar – “The Visible and the Unseen: Reframing the Persian Tale of the Greek and Chinese Painters,” ReSIA (Research Seminar in Islamic Art, SOAS) – 15 December
Dr Domenico Arturo Ingenito
ReSIA – Research Seminar in Islamic Art, convened by Professor Anna Contadini, will be presented on Zoom on Thursday 15th December at 6pm (UK time). Please register with Matty Bradley on mb@royalasiaticsociety.org by 14th December to receive the link to the talk.
The latest two ReSIA seminars have been recorded and they are now accessible on YouTube – Haris Dervišević and Richard Piran McClary.
6. Haft Paykar or the Divan of Sultan Ahmad Jalayir
Dr. Ali Ferdowsi and Dr. Sanaz Rajabiya
Tehran, sherkat-i sahami enteshar, spring 1401/2022) in Persian. This is the first edited and annotated study of Sultan Ahmad’s Divan with a detailed and invaluable introduction to the historical, political, and cultural circumstances of Sultan Ahmad’s tumultuous reign. For those interested in obtaining copies, please refer to the publisher’s website www.entesharco.com or email at info@entesharco.com.
7. Zoom seminar: ‘Contemporary Islamic Philosophy of Religion: An Anthropocentric Approach to Evil and Suffering’
Dec 16, 2022 02:00 PM ET
Speaker:
Mohammed Rustom, Professor of Islamic Thought, Carleton University
Register here: bit.ly/islamic-philosophy
Learn more: bit.ly/islamic-philosophy1
8. The “BIBLICAL CHARACTERS IN THREE TRADITIONS (JUDAISM, CHRISTIANITY, ISLAM)” unit of the Society of Biblical Literature International Meeting will dedicate its 2023 sessions to concept of characters and colours in the three traditions.
Paper are invited that examine the use of colours in the context of biblical characters within various religious traditions and reception histories, from antiquity to contemporary times — from qur’anic yellow cow to white and black faces (and their opposing meanings in different languages); as well as biblical characters and colours, and their reception within the Islamic context.
Please submit your proposal here:
Deadline for submission of abstracts is 31st January 2023.
For details and abstract submission (SBL members):
Any questions, or if you are not a member of SBL, please contact hadromiz@tcd.ie
9. The Sharmin and Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies presents:
The Formation of Adabiyat as a Modern Literary Discourse
Wednesday, December 14, 2022 @ Noon
Register for this webinar
Free and open to the public
10. Call for paper proposals for a pre-arranged panel at the 10th European Conference of Iranian Studies, Leiden University, Netherland (21-25 August 2023)
The Wulff Archive: An Encyclopaedia of the Traditional Crafts, Technology, Science, Material Culture, and Art of Iran
Convenors
Dr Mahroo Moosavi (University of Oxford, UK)
Dr Roxana Zenhari (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany)
Professor Pedram Khosronejad (Powerhouse Museum/Western Sydney University, Australia)
Background
Johannes Eberhard Wulff was born in 1907 in Westphalia, Germany. In 1936, he was given an official position to go to Iran at the request of Reza Shah Pahlavi the king of Iran (r.1925-1941), to plan and set up the first ever schools of technical engineering, as foreign aid of the German government to the Iranian government. The first technical college was established by Wulff in Shiraz in 1937, and it was during the official opening of this school that he received a royal order from Reza Shah, to collect the necessary data for the preparation of an encyclopaedia of the “Traditional Crafts, Technology, Science, Material Culture and Art of Persia”.
In parallel with administering and teaching at the Technical Colleges in Shiraz, later in Isfahan and finally in Tabriz, from 1937 to 1941 Wulff travelled all around the country observing, interviewing, and photographing master craftsmen of many different guilds to record their techniques of production and tool making, to teach at his new schools and to use them as primary resources in his royal project. However, with the Second World War outbreak, and the invasion of Iran by the British and Soviet Armies in 1941, Wulff and many other Germans who were employed in Iran, were accused of being Nazi associates and sent to the Australian internment camps. In 1950 and following the release of the civilian internees in 1947 Wulff joined the University of New South Wales in Sydney, as a lecturer. In 1953 he retrieved all his research materials from Iran, including his notes, diaries, and photographs. In 1963 the Department of Industrial Arts at the University of New South Wales accepted Wulff as a doctoral candidate to work on a thesis based on his work on the traditional crafts of Iran. To complete his field research, Wulff returned to Iran twice during 1964 and 1965, and published a small part of his research in a book entitled The Traditional Crafts of Persia (MIT press, 1966). Having finished the project of documentation of the traditional crafts, art, science, and technology of Iran, Wulff died in 1967. His archive – the bulk of which are unpublished – was retrieved from his family in 2019 in Australia by Dr Pedram Khosronejad, is currently in his custody, and will be collectively used by the research project group in different modes and manners.
This is a call for papers for a prearranged panel at the 10th European Conference of Iranian Studies, Leiden University, Netherland on 21-25 August 2023. The panel and the parallel/consequential collaborative project aim to shed light on the significance of Wulff’s project as a basic research tool from different disciplinary angles, his potential agency in the development of the field of Iranian Studies, and his grand yet mainly understudied project of the documentation of the traditional art, craft, science, and technology of Iran. Identification, printing, and digitisation of Wulff’s archive with the goal of making this valuable collection available to the wider audience, publishing Wulff’s encyclopaedia of Persian traditional art, craft, technology, and science, and republishing his 1966 book is within the larger scope of the collaborative project.
Please send your abstracts (1500 characters), your CV, and your academic status and affiliation for being considered for this panel. Early career scholars and PhD candidates in art and architectural history, anthropology, and history of technology are also encouraged to apply. Interdisciplinary approaches towards the topic are welcome. The convenors are planning to run an online session soon, with the potential panel participants to further explain the direction/s of the project and possible avenues for collaboration.
Deadline: January 15th, 2023.
Please send your abstracts to all three convenors:
roxana.zenhari@uni-goettingen.de;
pedram.khosronejad@westernsydney.edu.au
The accepted speakers will be in full charge of their costs including the conference registration, travel, and accommodation.
For more information about the conference, please visit:
www.universiteitleiden.nl/ecis10
11. Call for papers of the Journal of Palestinian Christianity, a new Palestinian-led, Palestine-based, peer reviewed, bilingual journal exploring the unique dynamics of Palestinian Christian communities throughout history and the present day. We welcome articles from a variety of fields ranging from theology and religious studies to anthropology, sociology, political science, history, literature and culture. Likewise, we welcome contributors from all Christian and religious/secular backgrounds, in both historical Palestine and abroad.
Call for Papers:
Articles can be written in either Arabic or English, and after a full peer review process will be translated into the other language by the editorial team. A conference will be organised to celebrate the published articles and to generate dialogue around them. Potential themes may include, but are not limited to:
– History and Heritage
– Ecumenical relations
– Christian-Muslim relations
– Christian-Jewish relations
– Identity and belonging
– Sacred space
– Worship and practice
– Biblical/textual engagement
– Palestinian contextual and liberation theology
– Migration and transnational relations
– Clergy-laity relations
– Political legacy and engagement
– Law
– Literature and the arts
– Popular culture
– Church history
– Arab Christianity in Palestine
Submission Details:
The call for papers is for two issues: a general issue and special issue.
General: Interested authors for the general issue are welcome to submit their articles or consult the editorial committee by sending an abstract to the following email j.munayer@bethbc.edu. Please include your name and any institutional and other affiliation with your proposed title, abstract and article. The editors will contact you and discuss further details on accepted proposals and articles. Any questions may be directed to the email above. Submissions can be made in English (5,000-7,000 words) or Arabic (3,500-5,500 words). Deadline for draft articles: 28th of February 2023. The journal’s style guide and other submission guidelines are available at jpc.bethbc.edu.
Special: The second issue will be a special issue on the history of Christian communities in and of Palestine and the relationship with Empire – be it Ottoman, British or others – between 1850 and 1948. How did Palestinian Christian individuals and communities interact with imperial institutions and forces? In what ways have they suffered from or benefitted by imperial dynamics in the region? And what have the implications of these relations been for internal interactions within Christian communities and institutions themselves? Submissions are welcome from all historical perspectives, including political history, historical anthropology, intellectual history or theological and social histories. Submissions can be made in English (5,000-7,000 words) or Arabic (3,500-5,500 words). Deadline for draft articles: 31st August 2023; initial enquiries are welcome to Dr. Sarah Irving at sarah.irving@staffs.ac.uk. The journal’s style guide and other submission guidelines are available at jpc.bethbc.edu.
More information on the journal can be found at: https://myemail.constantcontact.com/Call-for-Papers–Journal-of-Palestinian-Christianity.html?soid=1123649319126&aid=Mj8Ws0YEOcQ
12. DEC. 14-16th EVENT: Thresholds to Arabic Literary Criticism Conference
The Institute for Comparative Literature and Society is proud to present Thresholds to Arabic Literary Criticism. This event will be held in-person at Columbia University at the Italian Academy (December 14) and Faculty House (December 15-16). Registration for this event can be found here. Please note that registration is limited and that speakers on the program need not register. This program is in-person. Webinar will be available to a limited number of registrants.
The full event program can be found here.
This event is also co-sponsored by Columbia University Arabic Studies Seminar, Brill Academic Publishers, and the Sheikh Zayed Book Award (Abu Dhabi Arabic Language Center, Department of Culture & Tourism, Abu Dhabi)
Please contact me if you have any questions.
Best,
Samantha DeNinno
Program Coordinator
Institute for Comparative Literature and Society (ICLS)
Administrative Team
Email: icls@columbia.edu
Phone: 212.854.4541
13. University of Manchester: Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies Lecture Series
Empowering Muslim Women in History, Literature, and the Arts
Lecture 5
Female Jurists in the History of Islam between the Seventh and Seventeenth Centuries CE
Dr Rita Faraj (Al Mesbar Center for Studies and Research UAE)
Tuesday 13 December 2022, 13:00 UTC
This lecture will be delivered in Arabic on Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/92157931375
14. ONLINE Panel “The Rise of Digital Authoritarianism in the Arab World: Surveillance, Censorship, and Disinformation Warfare”, Arab Center Washington DC, 13 December 2022, 10:00 am – 11:30 am ET
Panelists will outline the models and toolkits of Arab digital authoritarianism. They will also assess the possibility of regulatory oversight, will discuss the implications of emerging digital superpowers, cyber power dynamics, and the role and shortcomings of social media companies, and will offer recommendations to address the growing challenges posed by the misuse of digital and social media technologies.
Information and registration:
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/2416705255172/WN_6Y7zCUV2QyGeW1CHhyX3bA
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