Shii News – Academic Items
1.EuQu (The European Qur’an) Spring Newsletter
https://us5.campaign-archive.com/?e=__test_email__&u=c4d88e3337f7b738eb748d56a&id=d68b304790
2. Online Teaching Material – Berlin Museum for Islamic Art
Online Teaching Material in English and Arabic
Report on the Berlin Museum for Islamic Art’s new online portal that presents Islamic cultures in an innovative and entertaining way:
https://en.qantara.de/content/berlin-museum-of-islamic-art-islamic-art-goes-digital
3. Lecture – What Can a Mosque Tell Us About History?, Kambiz GhaneaBassiri – April 18, Columbia University
Lecture by Kambiz GhaneaBassiri, Reed College
Date: April 18th, 2023, 6:15 to 8:00 pm
Place: Columbia University, 612 Schermerhorn Hall
What Can a Mosque Tell Us About History?
Monumental religious architecture is generally presumed to carry meaning relevant to its historical contexts. Such buildings are thus interpreted as architectural expressions of the structuring concepts of their times (e.g. modernity or nationalism), reflecting the identities of their respective makers and communities in relation to changing historical circumstances. But what if a space that is being monumentalized through architecture has its own structuring principles that carries meaning outside of its time and place? This talk explores the mosque—a central institution of Islam that is as old as the religion and can be found wherever its practitioners have settled—as an example of such structuring spaces. It aims to answer the question of what the mosque can tell us about the role of Islamic beliefs and practices in history by analyzing the monumental Alabaster Mosque built in the Citadel of Cairo by the influential nineteenth-century ruler of Egypt Muhammad ‘Ali Pasha.
4. Hybrid Lecture – Book Talk: The Wolf King, Abigail Balbale – March 30
Book Talk: The Wolf King: Reflections on Religion and Power in al-Andalus
Abigail Balbale
New York University
March 30 @ 2:30-4:00pm
Rutgers University-Newark
110 Warren Street, Room 312
and on zoom
5. Lecture – “Polychromie et polysémie dans les arts de l’Islam” (in French), Alain Fouad George – April 4
We are pleased to welcome Alain Fouad George for a lecture, which will take place on April 04th, 2023, from 5:00 to 6:30 p.m., at the Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art (Paris), salle Vasari :
Polychromie et polysémie dans les arts de l’Islam
Alain Fouad George (université d’Oxford)
Abstract :
Des études éparses sur les arts de l’Islam ont révélé, dans différents contextes, une prédilection pour la polychromie, qui n’est pas sans rappeler celles de Rome et de la Grèce antiques, mieux connues. Mêlant souvent une déstabilisation des sens à une polysémie des ornements, cette sensibilité artistique met l’accent sur le sujet en mouvement. Son étude fait également ressortir en filigrane une tendance plus ou moins consciente, à l’époque moderne, à « blanchir » les arts de l’Islam.
6. NZ Waikato Islamic Studies Review new issue published
The 2023 March Issue of Waikato Islamic Studies Review published by New Zealand University of Waikato Islamic Studies Group is now available at the following link:
https://www.waikato.ac.nz/fass/UWISG/review
7. Christian-Muslim Relations, Primary Sources 600 – 1914
David Thomas (Anthology Editor)
September 2023
8. Missions and Preaching, Connected and Decompartmentalised Perspectives from the Middle East and North Africa (19th-21st Century)
Edited by Norig Neveu,
Karène Sanchez Summerer and Annalaura Turiano
Brill, 2022
https://brill.com/display/title/59712
9. The 2023 BRISMES Early Development Scholarship aims to support activities geared toward strengthening the academic profile and CV of an early career scholar.
Deadline: 30.4.23
10. Departmental Lecturer in Islamic Studies
University of Oxford
The Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies is seeking to appoint an enthusiastic and well qualified scholar to teach Islamic Studies, with a primary specialisation either in Qur’anic studies or in pre-modern (i.e., pre-1800) Islamic intellectual history (e.g., rational theology or Arabic philosophy).
Deadline | 30 March 2023
11. Lecturer in International Political Economy
University of Edinburgh
Applications are invited for a Lecturer in International Political Economy with experience in teaching at UG and PG levels, and in undertaking high quality research, to join Politics and International Relations. We invite applications in any area of IPE, but applications from high quality candidates with expertise in trade and/or an area focus on one of Africa, the Middle East or Asia would be appreciated.
Deadline | 31 March 2023
12. Margaret Anstee Research Fellowship 2023-2027
Newnham College, University of Cambridge
Applications are invited from outstanding women graduates whose doctoral degrees are complete or very near completion two Research Fellowships in subjects related to economic and social development and/or international relations. The Fellowships attract a generous stipend, and an additional award of £10,000 is available to run an event to promote the research, such as a conference, workshop or seminar series.
Deadline | 3 April 2023
13. Postdoctoral Research Fellow
University of Exeter
The Faculty wishes to recruit a Postdoctoral Research Fellow as part of the ‘Mapping Connections: China and Contemporary Development in the Middle East” project, funded by Carnegie Corporation of New York and led by Professor Adam Hanieh at the Institute for Arab and Islamic Studies (IAIS).
Deadline | 10 April 2023
14. Lecturer in Arabic Translation Studies
University of Liverpool
The Department of Languages, Cultures & Film wishes to appoint to a permanent Lectureship in Arabic Translation Studies. You will maintain and enhance our growing research expertise in translation and interpreting, and contribute to the design, development and delivery of our new MA in Translation Studies.
Deadline | 14 April 2023
15. Lecturer in the History of the Middle East
King’s College London
The Department of History seeks to appoint a Lecturer specialising in the history of the Middle East before 1918. Applications are welcome from candidates with expertise in any aspect of the history of the Middle East or North Africa in the Ottoman period (c. 1500-1918).
Deadline | 17 April 2023
16. Associate Professorship of International Relations
University of Oxford
The Department of Politics and International Relations (DPIR), in association with St Catherine’s College, is seeking to appoint an Associate Professor of International Relations. The Department has particular needs in the international relations of the Middle East, China, Russia, Africa; international political economy (IPE); and international organization.
Deadline | 26 April 2023
17. Call for Applications – Book Proposal Workshop
Workshop | 6 March 2023 | The Arab Political Science Network and the Center for Lebanese Studies
The workshop is aimed at recent PhD graduates and early career scholars in social science from the Arab world who are working on their first book project focusing on the region. The book workshop welcomes research and proposals focusing on the politics of the Middle East and North Africa. The workshop is divided into two parts and will be in English.
Deadline | 8 April 2023
18. Where Are We Now? The Location of Modern Languages and Cultures
Conference | 19-21 April 2023 | Durham University
The School of Modern Languages’ 2023 conference will explore the current debate around student uptake of Modern Languages, and our identity as a discipline. Modern Languages as an interdisciplinary field of study brings a spectrum of insights to urgent international challenges, such as debates around space, access, mobility, justice, and how the global and the local perspective are crucial to inform ongoing and new research in Modern Languages studies.
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