Shii News – Academic Items
1. Reconstructing the Variant Generation Process of Hadith
Based on the Quantitative and the Isnād-cum-Matn Analysis
Hiroyuki Yanagihashi
Equinox, 2023
For more information and to order at 25% off quoting the code VAR visit the book page:
https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/reconstructing-variant-gen/
2. Funds: Research grants in History of the Book including Maps
Grants up to £4,000 for research into the history of the book, including studies of the production, transmission, circulation, dissemination, and consumption of text and graphics (i.e. maps, music, illustrations, and mass-produced prints).
The Willison Foundation Charitable Trust promotes the advancement of the History of the Book by awarding funding to researchers working within that global field of study. It is interested in studies of the production, transmission, circulation, dissemination, and consumption of text and graphics (i.e. maps, music, illustrations, and mass-produced prints). It therefore expects to serve the needs of those working in the history of authorship, publishing, reading, and archiving, including maps, music, and prints; the history of libraries including deposit of computer memory; textual studies in the widest sense; codicology, palaeography, textual biography and editorial practice, textual communication, reception studies within oral as well as inscripted cultures.
To learn more see https://willisoncharitabletrust.org/applications/guidance-for-applicants/
3. The AIS (Association for Iranian Studies) Online Symposium team is happy to announce an extension of the deadline for submission of panels and individual papers for our October 20-22, 2023 online symposium. We are looking forward to receiving your abstracts by *10 July 2023*. Please submit your proposals at the following link: https://associationforiranianstudies.org/ais-online-symposium-2023 <https://associationforiranianstudies.org/ais-online-symposium-2023>
4. Programs at Hikmat International Institute for Summer, Fall 2023
To learn more, visit the Hikmat website at the address below:
https://hikmat-ins.com/courses/
If you have any questions, feel free to contact us any time at info@hikmat-ins.com
5. 2023 BRISMES Annual General Meeting
Members are reminded that the BRISMES Annual General Meeting (AGM) will take place as follows:
Date: Wednesday, 5 July 2023
Time: 11:30-13:30 (BST)
Venue: The Forum Auditorium, University of Exeter
All members of BRISMES are invited to attend the AGM. The final agenda and associated papers will be sent by email to all BRISMES members on 26 June 2023.
6. BRISMES Conference Student Paper Prize
Submissions for this prize are currently closed and will open after the annual conference in July.
About the Prize
The aim of this prize is to support BRISMES student members in the development of peer-reviewed work. The prize winner will receive £300 and will be mentored through a review process at the British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (BJMES) by a senior member of the BRISMES academic community. Such a mentor will be identified on the basis of the disciplinary field and topic of the awarded conference paper. In addition, the desk review process will be skipped and the journal will commit to sending the paper directly to external reviewers for the final decision about publication.
Eligibility
- The applicant must be a BRISMES student member by the time the application is submitted.
- The applicant must have registered for the Annual Conference.
- The paper must be on the same topic on which the applicant is presenting at the Annual Conference.
- The paper needs to be an original unpublished work from any discipline on any topic related to the study of Middle East and North Africa.
- The only selection criteria is academic excellence.
How to apply
Send the paper with a short biography (150 words max) and CV to office@brismes.org, indicating the disciplinary field to which the paper is contributing.
The estimated word count for a typical paper in BJMES is 10,000 words, inclusive of the abstract, tables, references, figure captions.
Deadline: Two weeks after the annual conference
https://www.brismes.ac.uk/awards/brismes-conference-student-paper-prize
7. Departmental Lecturer in Middle Eastern Politics
University of Oxford
Applications are invited for the position of Departmental Lecturer in Middle Eastern Politics in the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford. As well as providing teaching for the department’s core Middle East politics provision, the Departmental Lecturer will be expected to teach on research methods, including leading on research design sessions.
Deadline | 26 June 2023
8. Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in the Political Sociology of Islam and Muslim Societies
Australian National University
The Centre for Arabic and Islamic Studies within the Research School of Social Sciences, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences is seeking to appoint a Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in the Political Sociology of Islam and Muslim societies with a focus on the Arabic Speaking World. Research rooted in the political sociology of religion and intellectual/social trends and movements in the Arabic Speaking World, as well as informed by fieldwork and linguistic competence is highly desirable.
Deadline | 31 July 2023
9. Call for Applications – Editor of International Journal of Middle East Studies (IJMES)
The MESA Board of Directors invites applications and nominations for the next editor of the International Journal of Middle East Studies (IJMES) for a five-year term beginning July 1, 2024. Candidates should be internationally recognized Middle East scholars in either the humanities or the social sciences and be affiliated with an academic institution prepared to contribute space and support to an editorial office. Applications should include proposals for this institutional contribution, endorsed by the institution involved.
Deadline | 1 August 2023
10. Jalal al-Din Rumi and his Legacy: Religion, Literature and Culture between Medieval Anatolia and the Persianate World, 13th-14th Centuries
Conference | 6-7 July 2023 | BIAA and BIPS
This conference is a partnership between the British Institute at Ankara and British Institute of Persian Studies. It will take place over two days in Ankara. Please note that places are extremely limited due to the venue’s capacity. The conference will be conducted in English.
More information
11. The Islamic College – Hawza Taster Course (in House)
DATE: 30th June – 2nd July
TIME: 10:00 am – 4:30 pm (London time)
Venue: The Islamic College, London, 133 High Road Willesden Green London
https://islamic-college.ac.uk/study/hawza-taster-course/
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- June 24, 2023
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