Shii News – Academic Items

1.BA in Hawzah Studies Admission

Mufid Academic Seminary is now welcoming passionate seekers of knowledge to register for its B.A. in Hawzah Studies for the Fall of 2023. Our Hawzah Studies program is equivalent to a BA in Islamic Studies and is a hybrid (online and in-person) three-years program.

• In the course of each semester,the students meet with their instructors for 16 weeks online. At the end of each semester, MAS will conduct a 10 day in-person course in different cities. The previous batches have met in Dearborn, MI, Maryland, IL, Washington, DC, and Najaf al-Ashraf, Iraq.
• Graduates of the program will have the opportunity to study at advanced levels in seminaries abroad and also serve the community as clergy and religious leaders.
• Those who wish to excel in academia will be given preference to receive funding for an M.A. in Islamic Studies at different high-ranking universities.

For more information and to schedule a one-on-one meeting with our admissions advisors, please email: admission@mufidseminary.org.

To apply:

https://www.mufidseminary.org/application-for-certificate-courses/

 

 

 

 

2. HYBRID Lecture “The Local Agents of French Diplomacy in the 16th- and 17th-Century Eastern Mediterranean” by Prof. Mathieu Grenet (Centre universitaire Jean-Francois Champollion), Haifa, 21 March 2023, 14:00 h

New interest has led to a broader reassessment of the role of ambassadors and other high-ranking diplomats in both the implementation of early modern trading policies, the social and political life of foreign “nations” abroad, and the process of “bureaucratization” of Ancien Régime state institutions.

Information and registration: https://mailchi.mp/mediterraneanseminar/attend-the-local-agents-of-french-diplomacy-in-the-16th-and-17th-century-eastern-mediterranean-21-march-haifahybrid?e=82aeb6c61d

 

 

 

 

3. ONLINE Lecture “What is the Premodern?” by Professor Shahzad Bashir, Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies, New York University, 30 March 2023, 12:00 pm – 13:00 pm EST

Using Persian works written under the aegis of the East India Company in India, Shahzad Bashir will reflect on the implications of our use of the qualifier “premodern” for certain Islamic and other contexts. Is premodern a quantitative marker on the straight line of time as it flows from the past to the future? Or is it a qualitative signifier pertaining to literary genres and presumed sociointellectual characteristics?

Information and registration: https://bit.ly/PIW33023

 

 

 

 

4. Colloque “Qu’est-ce que le Qur’ān européen ? Définitions, descriptions, représentations (XIIe-XIXe s.)”, Nantes Université, 11-12 mai 2023

Comment les Européens du Moyen âge et de la Modernité ont-ils perçu ce qu’est le Qur’ān ? Quelles définitions ont-ils données, et lesquelles sont sous-jacentes aux représentations qu’ils ont élaborées ? Comment l’ont-ils conçu par rapport à ce qui leur était familier et à leurs préoccupations ? De quelles manières ont-ils saisi, défini et représenté ses différentes facettes au cours des siècles ?

Programme et information : https://www.univ-nantes.fr/exceller-par-la-recherche/laboratoires/colloque-quest-ce-que-le-qur%C4%81n-europeen-definitions-descriptions-representations-xiie-xixe-s

 

 

 

 

5. “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

 

 

 

 

6. International Conference on “Muslim Women’s Popular and Genre Fiction and Film across all Languages, Forms and Periods”, Muslim Women’s Popular Fiction AHRC Research Network, Birmingham, UK, 5-9 September 2023

Indicative topics: Studies of individual authors or works of popular and genre fiction. – Translation of popular and genre works by Muslim authors. – Visual culture (graphic novels, comics, film, TV) Digital culture (Instagram, YouTube, BookTok). – Decoloniality and popular fiction. – Teaching Muslim women’s popular fiction. – Publishing and production.

Deadline for abstracts: 16 April 2023. Information:

https://more.bham.ac.uk/mwpf-network/muslim-womens-popular-fiction-international-conference/

 

 

 

 

7. HYBRID Graduate Student Workshop “Muslim Qur’an Translation: History, Society, Culture, Exegesis“, GloQur: The Global Qur’an, University of Freiburg (Germany), 4-5 October 2023

This workshop will bring together graduate students who are preparing a doctoral thesis on social, historical, cultural or exegetical aspects of Qur’an translations in Muslim contexts and would like to present and discuss their thesis projects with an international group of like-minded emerging and advanced scholars.

Deadline for Application: 20 March 2023. Information and registration:

https://gloqur.de/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/CfP_Workshop_Grad_students_QT.pdf

 

 

 

 

8. Workshop “Sensory Aspects of Muslim Preaching”, University of Copenhagen, 25-27 October 2023

This workshop will explore a broad variety of sensory aspects of Muslim preaching, for example related to preaching practices, various forms of mediation, preaching content, bodily expressions, and reception.

Deadline for abstracts: 7 April 2023. Information:

https://modernity.ku.dk/calendar/sensory-aspects-of-muslim-preaching/

 

 

 

 

9. Postdoctoral Researcher (Focus Jewish-Arab Interaction in 20th and 21th Century Israel/ Palestine), Heidelberg Center for Transcultural Studies

The research project “Beyond Conflict and Coexistence” links the universities of Heidelberg, Munich, and Halle. The research project brings together a variety of postdoctoral fellows who explore Jewish-Arab trans-culturation from the Middle Ages until today, with a focus on cultural, intellectual and political entanglements.

Deadline for applications: 31 March 2023. Information:

https://adb.zuv.uni-heidelberg.de/info/INFO_FDB$.startup?MODUL=LS&M1=1&M2=0&M3=0&PRO=33074

 

 

 

 

10. 2 Phd Positions, (part-time, 30h per week) in the FWF-funded QhoD-project “GraViz”. The start is scheduled for September 1st, 2023.

“Digital Edition of Sources on Habsburg-Ottoman Diplomacy (1500-1918)” (qhod.net)

The position is limited to 36 months. This position requires advanced linguistic and palaeographical skills: Excellent command of Ottoman Turkish and Persian; knowledge of modern Turkish and/or Arabic and/or Urdu is an advantage. Deadline for applications: 31 March 2023. Information: https://www.oeaw.ac.at/ihb/detail/news/2-phd-student-positions-f-m-x

 

 

 

11. Intensive Ottoman and Modern Turkish Summer School (IOTSS), Ottoman Studies Foundation, Cunda, Turkey, 10 July – 18 August 2023

Application deadline: 31 March 2023 at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/12wn6clzTTJly3ZJu-LCIcyE2FGHi At26CJen3S-0Les/edit?ts=63fe14d8. Information: ottomanstudiesfoundation@gmail.com

 

 

 

 

12. Articles on “Hyper-securitisation of Islam and Muslims in Australia, Asia and Beyond” for Special Issue of the “Melbourne Asia Review”

I welcome research on any jurisdiction that provides a case study of how Islam and Muslims have been securitised in the post-9/11 environment. This is a peer reviewed magazine style journal with short articles of between 1500 and 3000 words and the special issue will be published both online and in print.

Deadline for abstracts: 24 April 2023. Information: dtittensor@unimelb.edu.au

 

 

 

 

13. Articles on “Asceticism, Mysticism, and the Affirmation of the World in Christianity and Islam” for Special Issue of the Journal “Religions”

We welcome 400-600 word abstracts on a rolling basis, and depending on submissions, we would expect full drafts by 31 August 2023.

Information: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/religions/special_issues/religions_mysticism

 

 

 

 

14. Invitation to Join the International Research Working Groups (Focus Afghanistan, Iraq, Israel) of the Folke Bernadotte Academy (FBA), Stockholm, Sweden

In order to strengthen its evidence-based work on peace, security and development, FBA is currently looking for scholars from around the globe who want to leverage their knowledge to inform the programming and policy work of FBA and its partners as members of FBA’s international research working groups.

Deadline for applications: 30 April 2023. Information: https://fba.se/en/newspress/nyhetsarkiv/2023/call-for-members-for-fbas-international-research-working-groups/

 

 

 

15. Zoom – Colloquium on “Interreligious Interactions in South Asia,” April 3–12, 2023

“Interreligious Interactions in South Asia” that will take place over Zoom from April 3 to April 12, 2023 (15:00–16:30 GMT / 10:00–11:30 EST / 20:30–22:00 IST).

Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/94189387595?pwd=Q0hvNDZvYjhDUVZOTHkxSWxNVGIyQT09

April 3, 2023

Speaker: Samia Khatun (SOAS, University of London)

Title: Nur, Darshan & Enlightenment: Three Approaches to Connecting Texts and Textiles in 18th century Bengal

April 4, 2023

Speaker: Sohini Sarah Pillai (Kalamazoo College)

Title: A Bhakti Mahabharata for Aurangzeb? Sabalsingh Chauhan’s Bhasha Retelling of the Epic

April 5, 2023

Speaker: Kashshaf Ghani (Nalanda University)

Title: Seeking Allah and Krishna: Sufism and Religious Interactions from South Asia

April 6, 2023

Speaker: SherAli Tareen

Title: Contests over the Boundaries of Hindu-Muslim Friendship

April 7, 2023

Speaker: Jyoti Gulati Balachandran (Penn State University)

Title: Socio-Political Dimensions of Spiritual Practice in Gujarat: Notes from Two 15th century Sufi silsilahs

April 12, 2023

Speaker: Shankar Ayillath Nair

Title: Rāma and Sītā as Adam and Eve: The Rāmāyaṇa through the Prism of the Persian Romance

Ankur Barua (University of Cambridge)

Hina Khalid (University of Cambridge)

Pranav Prakash (University of Oxford)

 

 

 

16. National University of Singapore – Associate Professor/Professor (with Tenure) on Malay-Indonesian Region

Research accomplishments and linguistic mastery on a wider plane of studies to include Malay world connections with the Arabic-Persian, Mediterranean, East Asian and Indian Ocean worlds, including the global Malay diaspora, would be an added strength.
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=65237

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