Shii News – Academic Items
1.Upcoming Majlises in the Monday Majlis series from tomorrow the 23rd of January to the 29th of May (Centre for the Study of Islam, Exeter)
The complete list of Monday Majlis series (Centre for the Study of Islam, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter). You can watch the recorded events of the series here:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8YRkUahFj_81oJzCSDLTx4kVQQgeHLc-
The recordings, however, are not meant to replace but to complement being present at the live events. Given the sensitivity of the topics, not all Majlises will be recorded, some of the recordings are edited, and we don’t record the Q&A to allow the discussion to be free. So please register and try to come to the live event : )
In the spirit of the label ‘Majlis’ and also to make the talks even more interesting, we are experimenting with a new format presenting the topic discussed by our speaker as embedded in their own research journey. Please come and enjoy the talks and the discussions. If you’d like to be included in the CSI (Centre for the Study of Islam (Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter) mailing list, please contact the CSI Manager: Sarah Wood (s.a.wood2@exeter.ac.uk).
Below is the list of the upcoming Majlises.
Spring term:
17:00-18:30 (UK time) Monday 16 January. Hugh Kennedy, Revisiting an old friend: a new translation of al-Balādhurī’s Futūḥ al-buldān
Past event, recording at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8YRkUahFj_81oJzCSDLTx4kVQQgeHLc-
17:00-18:30 (UK time) Monday 23 January. Neda Darabian, Accusations of Magic against the Religious ‘Others’ in the Late Antique Persianate World
Registration is required. Register please on this link: https://Universityofexeter.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUvdOCqqj0qGdL5OIBXrvM3TRIAw-4-P_nA
17:00-18:30 (UK time) Monday 30 January. Massimo Ramaioli, Salafism: The Vanguard of the Islamic World?
Registration is required. Register please on this link: https://Universityofexeter.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMpf-CprjIpH9xMN-urOeEGhkni-n7SL2aq
17:00-18:30 (UK time) Monday 6 February. Livnat Holtzman, How Sunni was the Qadiri Creed? An Alternative Reading in the Sources
Registration is required. Register please on this link: https://Universityofexeter.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0tf-uorj8iGdF6bzewG1quOEMRDromNwPO
17:00-18:30 (UK time) Monday 13 February. Beatrice Gruendler, Miscarriage of Justice and Dissenting Re(d)actions in Kalīla wa-Dimna
Registration is required. Register please on this link: https://Universityofexeter.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwpfumgpz4uH9AISXD1LNhhORsOB6xXsvOl
17:00-18:30 (UK time) Monday 20 February. Johannes Stephan, Kalīla and Dimna and the Anthological Epistemology of adab
Registration is required. Register please on this link: https://Universityofexeter.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMvcu6tpjIrGNaR3pbVlEAFi4dyJL3Kp0Uo
17:00-18:30 (UK time) Monday 27 February. Theodore Samuel Beers, Prosimetrum in Naṣr Allāh Munshī’s Kalīla and Dimna
Registration is required. Register please on this link: https://Universityofexeter.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYtdeCsqzkvGtB7DmNKhMzVIfdzfgH5xD-5
17:00-18:30 (UK time) Monday 6 March. Dwight Reynolds, Behind Enemy Lines: Muslim and Jewish Musicians in post-Reconquista Christian Lands
Registration is required. Register please on this link: https://Universityofexeter.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwuduyvpj0uH9ZKuOHbtAunOmik5qDxg4qX
17:00-18:30 (UK time) Monday 13 March. Elizabeth Urban, The Challenges of Studying Slavery in Early Islamic History
Registration is required. Register please on this link: https://Universityofexeter.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0sdu2orzIsHNH2Ath4aUiUlFj1LEtzWY7-
17:00-18:30 (UK time) Monday 20 March. Dunja Rašić, Music of the Spheres in Akbarian Sufism
Registration is required. Register please on this link: https://Universityofexeter.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUqfuqspjkoEtzAqcRCIMAE45m3Zb0Nytym
17:00-18:30 (UK time) Monday 27 March. Hayrettin Yucesoy, Abbasid Political Thought: Religious and Secular Discipline of Power
Registration is required. Register please on this link: https://Universityofexeter.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEldeqtqTsiGNNdscoDYkgpa7kECJxwhrbz
Summer term:
17:00-18:30 (UK time) Monday 8 May. Ayşe Baltacıoğlu-Brammer, Neither Victim, Nor Accomplice: The Qizilbash and the Notion of Subjecthood in Ottoman-Safavid Rivalry
Registration is required. Register please on this link: https://Universityofexeter.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIpcOisqD0uH9Dab7LA1ZW9ctfryCusfoTF
17:00-18:30 (UK time) Monday 15 May. Han Hsien Liew, The Role of Emotions in Islamic Political Thought: A Late Abbasid Mirror for Princes by Ibn al-Jawzi
Registration is required. Register please on this link: https://Universityofexeter.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIsc-qrqDkqGdc8tYZ3dG-cN1yzZgjZx2g6
17:00-18:30 (UK time) Monday 22 May. Steven Judd, The Umayyad Problem in Arabic History/Historiography
Registration is required. Register please on this link: https://Universityofexeter.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAvceyrrz4rGdetqFtI0H_54FGrpAImfSzo
17:00-18:30 (UK time) Monday 29 May. Helen Pfeifer, An Ottoman Majlis
Registration is required. Register please on this link: https://Universityofexeter.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAqdO2hqzkjHN12WMVd_NIT7EqbrJFDbjrv
2. HYBRIDE Séminaire de recherche « Islams et musulmans de France: nouveaux terrains, approches et paradigmes », MMSH/IREMAM, Aix-en-Provence, 25 janvier 2023, 11h-13h
Simona Tersigni (Université de Paris-Nanterre, SOPHIAPOL): « Islam(s) en/de France au prisme des travaux sur femmes et genre ». Loïc Le Pape (Université Paris 1, Sorbonne): « Étudier l’islam en France par celles et ceux qui y adhèrent. Retour sur la sociologie des conversions religieuses ».
Information et inscription : https://iremam.cnrs.fr/fr/seminaire-de-recherche-islams-et-musulmans-de-france-nouveaux-terrains-approches-et-paradigmes-0
3. HYBRID Book Talk “Empire of Salons: Conquest and Community in Early Modern Ottoman Lands” with Helen Pfeifer, Ottoman and Turkish Studies Initiative, NYU, 10 February 2023, 12:30 am EST
Empire of Salons (Princeton University Press, 2022) explores gentlemanly salons in which the elite men displayed their knowledge and status. These salons both contributed to the empire’s political stability as much as any formal institution and played a central role in Syria and Egypt’s integration into the empire after the conquest of 1516–17.
Information and registration: https://nyu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEuc-6hpjMiE92SUNAE9klZ7hxEWMYO
4. HYBRID International Conference “Measuring Muslim Publics: Curves, Columns, Spheres and Squares”, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, 23-24 February 2023
This conference investigates who is ‘the public’ in public opinion? What effect does it have on politics? These questions have received a great deal of attention by scholars of American and European contexts where their contributions have taken on a universalistic overtone. Are these generalized assumptions valid in other societies – notably in Muslim-majority contexts?
Information and registration: https://muslimstudies.isp.msu.edu/about/conference/
5. “Arabic Literature PhD Scholars Colloquium”, Stanford University, California, 7 April 2023
The goal of this 1-day colloquium is to bring together current doctoral students in Arabic literature to share ongoing research, dissertation chapters or ideas, and thoughts about the present state and future of the field. Stanford will cover travel and accommodation costs for colloquium attendees.
Deadline for abstracts: 30 January 2023. Information: Anna Galietti (ag12@stanford.edu)
6. HYBRID “First Symposium on Middle Eastern, North African, and Central Asian Dances: New Paradigms, New Directions”, Pomona College, Claremont, CA, 13-16 April 2023
Themes include: Dance historiography; Dance, activism and social movements; Dance and colonialism; Strategies for decolonization and antihegemonic approaches; Postcolonial and transnational feminisms; Resilience and Radical Care; Orientalism, neo-orientalism and auto-orientalism; Cultural appropriation and misrepresentation; etc.
Deadline for abstracts: 29 January 2023. Information: https://menaca2023.wixsite.com/website
7. “Conference I – Early Modern Ottoman Studies [EMOS]”, Hacettepe University & Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara, 12-15 July 2023
The conference invites researchers studying the early modern Ottoman lands, their surroundings and the Mediterranean world (between 1500 and 1800), including all fields of history and related fields of social sciences and humanities. The conference aims to bring to the discussion new approaches, new perspectives and alternative sources in the context of the “Early Modernity” in the Ottoman Empire and the world around it. Selected papers are to be published in an edited volume.
Deadline for abstracts of papers: 1 February 2923. Deadline for abstracts of panels: 15 February 2923.
8. ONLINE “Migration Matters Conference: Networks and Institutions of Technology Transfer in the Early Modern World”, Northumbria University, Newcastle, 24-25 July 2023
This conference will explore the networks that facilitated migration and integration in the period 1500-1800. The focus will be on the transfer of technology and knowledge, especially forms of embodied or tacit knowledge. In doing so the conference will explore questions such as: How did networks facilitate the transfer of knowledge and technology? What types of networks were most conducive to migrant knowledge integration and assimilation in the host environment?
Deadline for abstracts: 27 February 2023.
Information: https://www.migration-innovation.org/news/migration-matters-conference-call-for-papers
9. “21st International Conference on Turkic Linguistics”, University of Mainz, 2-4 August 2023
We are inviting proposals for papers on all fields of Turkic linguistics, including but not limited to historical and comparative linguistics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, sociolinguistics, language contact, language acquisition, psycholinguistics, discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, etc. Conference languages are English and Turkish.
Deadline for abstracts: 31 March 2023. Information: https://ictl.uni-mainz.de
10. “56th Seminar for Arabian Studies”, Aarhus University, Denmark, 4-6 August 2023
This conference is the only international forum that meets annually for the presentation of the latest academic research in the humanities on the Arabian Peninsula from the earliest times to the present day or, in the case of political and social history, to the end of the Ottoman Empire (1922). The Proceedings of the conference are published the following year in time for the next Seminar.
Deadline for abstracts: 31 January 2023. Information: https://iasarabia.org/the-seminar/
11. “3rd Biennial Conference on Contemporary Iranian Studies”, University of Tehran, 5-6 November 2023
Panel proposals and abstracts related to all major fields of Iranian studies in four general categories of politics, sociology, culture and economics are welcome. The themes include but are not limited to contemporary history, sociology, political science, religions and theology, art, international relations, new media and communication studies, and Diaspora studies.
Information: https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2023/01/19/3rd-biennial-conference-on-contemporary-iranian-studies
12. Assistant Professor in Politics of the Middle East, University of Groningen
Applicants should have expertise in Politics of the contemporary Middle East and a particular focus on the Arab world, a promising research agenda, and a teaching portfolio in the modern Middle East. Candidates with a background in Middle Eastern Studies, political science, international relations and related fields are especially encouraged to apply; candidates specializing in environmental politics are especially encouraged.
Deadline for applications: 15 February 2023.
Information: https://www.rug.nl/about-ug/work-with-us/job-opportunities/?details=00347-02S0009UFP
13. Two PhD Studentships in Islamic Studies (any Sub-field and Thematic Area), 4 years, Centre for Theology and Religious Studies, Lund University, Sweden
Deadline for applications: 15 February 2023.
Information: https://lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:584711/type:job/where:4/apply:1
14. Four Fellowships (2 Years) for Advanced Studies on “Slavery, Ethnicity and Race in the Mediterranean. Ideas and Attitudes from Homer to Columbus,” 2020 Fondazione 1563, Turin
Candidates holding a doctorate in History or in any discipline in the Humanities are invited to propose projects dealing with any aspect of the cultural implications and consequences of enslavement for ideas and concepts of otherness, seen in terms that may be more easily categorized as racial or as ethnic depending on the discursive context.
Deadline for application: 30 January 2023. Information:
https://www.fondazione1563.it/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/THP-Call-for-applications-2022.pdf
15. Chapters for Edited Volume “Centering the Margins: Reimagining the Field of Arab American Studies”
The volume invites essays that focus on under-represented communities such as Algerian, Djiboutian, Egyptian, Khaliji, Libyan, Iraqi, Mauritanian, Moroccan, Somali, Sudanese, Tunisian, and Yemeni Americans. We also welcome essays that reimagine the field of Arab American Studies in terms of relationalities, both to other communities and other areas of study.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 April 2023. Information:
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