Shii News – Academic Items
1.In person: Rumi and the Masnavi: Talk and Recitation Annual Bruce Wannell Memorial Lecture 2023
Co-sponsored by the British Institute of Persian Studies (BIPS) and the University of York and it is part of the York Festival of Ideas.
with Alan Williams and Seyed Ali Jaberi & the Hamdel Ensemble
Rumi is one of the best loved and most influential poets in Islamic culture, and today is fame is global. Join Prof Alan Williams for a fascinating talk including a recitation and performance by Seyed Ali Jaberi and the Hamdel Ensemble, centring on the enigmatic story of an old musician, from the first book of Rumi’s Masnavi, a work of couplet verses in Persian and Arabic.
8 June 2023, 7:30PM. In person; registration required. National Centre for Early Music, Walmgate, York.
2. Persian Narrative Poetry in the Classical Era, 800-1500: Romantic and Didactic Genres
A History of Persian Literature, Vol III
Mohsen Ashtiany (Anthology Editor)
I B Tauris, 2023
3. CMES Harvard is hosting the exhibit of Qajar era archives and objects covering 30 years in the life of an Assyrian-Irish family from Urmia that settled in Santa Clara County, CA: Assyrians from Persia (Iran) to the United States, 1887-1923: Assyrian Education, American Missionaries, and the Search for a Home
The exhibit website is https://qarajalutosantaclara.com
The next speaker (ZOOM) in the accompanying series is Dr. Mira X Schwerda who will speak about the key Ali Khan Vali photo album at Harvard’s Fine Arts library.
An Archive of Fragmented Memories: The Concept of Time in the ‘Ali Khan Vali Album
Mira Xenia Schwerda
Getty/ACLS Postdoctoral Fellow in the History of Art, 2023-2024; Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh, 2022-2023.
Monday, May 8, 2023
12:00 to 1:30pm ET
Online; register in advance on Zoom: https://bit.ly/3L90xMO.
4. From Konkan to Coromandel: Deccan Heritage, Art and Culture
The University of Cambridge’s Centre of Islamic Studies has partnered with Art, Resources and Teaching Trust, Bangalore to deliver an exciting program this season.
Gangaram Tambat: A Deccan Artist and a British Archive
Holly Shaffer (Brown University) on May 12th at 2 PM London (9 AM New York, and
6:30 PM Mumbai)
Sea a Boiling Vessel: Oceanic Imaginations of Kerala’s History
Aazhi Archives on June 9th at 2 PM London (9 AM New York, and 6:30 PM Mumbai)
Shantaladevi: The History and Mythos of an “Exceptional” Hoysala Queen
Samana Gururaja (Humboldt Universität) on July 21st 2 PM London (9 AM New York, and 6:30 PM Mumbai)
Painted Chests and Sculpted Beds: Tracing Artistic Connections Between the Malabar Coast and the Broader Indian Ocean World
Deepthi Murali (George Mason University) on August 11th 2 PM London (9 AM New York, and 6:30 PM Mumbai)
All webinars will take place on Zoom. Free and open to the public. Prior registration is mandatory. Please visit https://www.cis.cam.ac.uk/activities/lectures-workshops/from-malabar-to-coromandel/ to register and receive the Zoom link.
5. Online: Intratextuality in the Bible and the Qur’an
DFDS2023 (3rd) International Conference
Organized by the Discussion Forum on Divine Scriptures and the World Religions World Church Program (Notre Dame)
May 17 2023, 8-11 am (Eastern Time – New York)
Registration : ahmadi_mh@ut.ac.ir
Speakers:
– Gabriel Said Reynolds , Notre Dame University
– Mun’im Sirry , Notre Dame University
– Hussein Abdulsater , Notre Dame University
– Gary Anderson , Notre Dame University
– Jennifer Grillo , Notre Dame University
– Nathan Eubank , Notre Dame University
– Mohammad Hasan Ahmadi , University of Tehran
– Abdulkader Tayob , University of Cape Town
– Ghassan Elmasri , Bavarian Research Center for Interreligious Discourses
– Mohammad Kazem Shaker , Allameh Tabataba’i University
– Mehrab Sadegh Nia , University of Religions and Denominations
– Mahmoud Sadeghi Tajar , Independent Scholar
For more information:
http://zabanshenasitarikhi.ir/p/53
https://chat.whatsapp.com/GSaHZjoRnZ5JNHRh18O2AV
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Dr. Mohammad Hasan Ahmadi
Assoc. Prof. University of Tehran
Islamic Historical Philology
Executive Director of Discussion Forum on Divine Scriptures(DFDS)
Website: http://zabanshenasitarikhi.ir/
Phone : +98 (0)9127580228 (ٌWhatsApp)
Email: ahmadi_mh@ut.ac.ir
6. Intellect is pleased to announce that Journal of Arab & Muslim Media Research 16.1 is out now!
For more information about the journal and issue click here>>
https://www.intellectbooks.com/journal-of-arab-muslim-media-research
7. Intellect is pleased to announce that International Journal of Islamic Architecture 12.2 is out now.
Special Issue: ‘Rupture and Response’
The theme for this special issue was inspired by the early months of the pandemic in 2020, when it was just beginning to disrupt and fracture lives, systems, economies, social fabrics, and many other facets of daily life around the globe.
For more information about the journal and issue click here>>
https://www.intellectbooks.com/international-journal-of-islamic-architecture
8. Dr. Fatemeh Keshavarz, Director of Roshan Institute for Persian Studies at the University of Maryland, will be delivering a virtual lecture hosted by the University of California, Santa Barbara on Saturday, May 6 at 11 a.m. PST.
“The presentation will focus on medieval Persian writers’ perception of the Other and their level of tolerance for diversity using the example of ‘Aziz al-Din Nasafi, Jalal al-Din Rumi, and Sa’di of Shiraz. We will examine these writers’ perception of the Other imagined to be residing in unfamiliar/hostile political, cultural, and religious geographies. The examples will include poetry and prose.”
If you would like to attend, please follow this link to the event page and click ‘REGISTER’
9. CfP: Journal of the Contemporary Study of Islam
Special issue of our journal on the theme of Islam and the Discourse of the Enlightenment
We welcome articles on the following themes:
Islamic conception of Subjectivity and Maturity
Islam and Reason
Islam and Political Sovereignty
Islam and Secularism
Islam and Development
and any other related themes
Book reviews on the aforementioned subjects are also appreciated.
JCSI is a peer-viewed academic journal publishing in London.
The length of the article should be between 5000 and 7000 words, and it should be submitted via the journal’s website: https://contemporarystudyofislam.org/
If there are any issues with submission, writers can email their paper directly to the journal’s editor at dr.emad-bazzi@contemporarystudyofislam.org or emadbazzi@hotmail.com
Before submission, authors are urged to review the paper criteria listed on the journal’s website. We also respectfully request that authors refrain from raising any topics that can be acrimonious or offensive to Muslim or other religious communities.
The submission deadline for this special issue is 30th June 2023
Contributors are asked to include a three-line profile about themselves containing their academic affiliation and major publications
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