Shii News – Academic Items
1. Sasanian Persia, The Rise and Fall of an Empire
Touraj Daryaee
2nd edition,
I B Tauris, 2023
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/sasanian-persia-9780755618415/
2. A History of the Tajiks, Iranians of the East
Richard Foltz
I B Tauris, 2023
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/history-of-the-tajiks-9780755649655/
3. ‘Scientific Knowledge and Religious Milieu in Qajar Iran: Negotiating Muslim and European Renaissance Medicine in the Subtleties of Healing’
Hermann, D, and F Speziale,
IRAN, 61/1, 2023
https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/WJ56P7IIAPVPDZRPC9RW/full?target=10.1080/05786967.2020.1857939
4. Medica: the Society for the Study of Healing in the Middle Agesis soliciting paper proposals for the 2024 Leeds International Medieval Congress on July 1-4 which has the special thematic strand of “crisis.”
Exploring Medieval Health Crises: Authority, Practice, & Knowledge:
From epidemics and famine to barber surgeons and midwives, healing during the Middle Ages represented the ultimate response to social and personal crises. While the medieval medical experience was often a tale of hardship and loss, historians of medicine continue to demonstrate that healing knowledge and practice in this period also revealed remarkable resilience, practicality, and innovation. In these sessions, Medica hopes to explore how society and individuals coped with health crises and the healing interventions that resulted from these events. We, therefore, invite papers that explore the many varied types of crises found within the scope of medieval health and healing. Topics to be addressed include but are not limited to:
- Conflict and change within the profession of healers, midwives, barber surgeons, and/or physicians
- Approaches to epidemics and famine
- Emotional, physical, or mental responses to a crisis of personal health
- Gendered approaches to health crises
- Responses to medical crisis within medieval society including treatments, techniques, and remedies
- Governmental and Church reactions to health crises
- Health crises and healing in visual or material culture
- Interdisciplinary studies in premodern healing
Please send your proposals of 250 words to Medica: the Society for the Study of Healing in the Middle Ages at medievalmedica@gmail.com before 15 September.
Nichola Harris, Ph.D.
President, Medica: the Society for Healing in the Middle Ages
Professor of European History
Department of History
SUNY Ulster
(845) 687 1577
5. Lecturer / Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations
Astong University
The Politics, History and International Relations (PHIR) Department are looking to make one appointment from 1 January 2024 at Lecturer/Senior Lecturer level. You will be able to contribute to the teaching of various sub-disciplines within International Relations and, ideally, have an area studies specialism in either Africa or the Middle East.
Deadline | 10 August 2023
6. Research Associate in the Department of Music (Literary Studies, including Comparative Literature, with Medieval Arabic and/or Hebrew)
King’s College London
The Music Department invites applicants for a 3-year position as a Postdoctoral Research Associate (PDRA) to work with Professor Emma Dillon and two further PDRAs on the project Musical Lives: Towards an Historical Anthropology of French Song, 1100-1300 [MUSLIVE] (a UKRI Frontier Research Grant, previously ERC). For this post we seek a candidate with background in literary studies, including comparative literary studies, or related fields. The candidate should have experience working with medieval Arabic and/or Hebrew literature.
Deadline | 21 August 2023
7. Lecturer in International Relations (Education and Research)
University of Exeter
The Department for Social and Political Sciences, Philosophy, and Anthropology (SPSPA) invites applications for this full-time permanent post. Though the thematic, theoretical, and methodological specialisations for the position are open, we would be particularly interested in candidates with expertise in International Relations in the specific regional areas of East Asia, the Asia-Pacific region, South Asia, or the Middle East.
Deadline | 18 September 2023
8. Call for Papers – Conceptualizing Sacred Languages and Their Visual Inimitability
AGYA Conference | SOAS, University of London | 7-8 December 2023
This conference explores the dynamic relationship between sacred languages and their visual elements, highlighting the interplay between language, writing, and spirituality. It focuses on the shapes of letters and patterns created by word arrangement, shedding light on how these writing systems evoke a profound sense of awe and reverence. The organisers welcome contributions exploring languages in the Middle East and beyond.
Deadline for Abstracts | 31 August 2023
9. Call for Papers – Sustainable Water Management: Learning from the Past to Inform the Future
Conference | British International Research Institutes (BIRI) | London, 15-16 March 2024
The world is facing an unprecedented water crisis due to increasingly extreme weather patterns, unsustainable water management practices, overuse of available resources, and exponential population growth. In order to bring scholars from different disciplines working on similar topics together to share results and learning and form collaborative networks for the future, BIRI are inviting papers for this 2-day interdisciplinary conference.
Deadline | 15 September 2023
10. Call for Proposals – 2024 Travel Research Engagement Grants
The Project on Middle East Political Science has announced a call for proposals for POMEPS Travel – Research – Engagement (TRE) grants for 2024. Awards of up to $3,000 will be offered to support research travel to the broader Middle East in support of an ongoing academic research project or the development of new research projects. Given the ongoing COVID-19 crisis and the unusual difficulty of conducting research in the region, they will continue to consider proposals for research which does not involve travel to the Middle East.
Deadline | 30 September 2023
11. Upcoming Short Courses with AKU-ISMC
Registration is open for following short courses:
- Introduction to Arabic Translation (Arabic to English)
3-31 October 2023 (Online) - Manuscripts in Arabic Script: Introduction to Codicology
4-5 October 2023 (Online)
12. 2024 Sir William Luce fellowship: call for applications
The Sir William Luce Memorial Fund welcomes applications for the 2024 Sir William Luce Fellowship, 22 April-21 June 2024.
The Sir William Luce Fellowship is awarded annually to a scholar at post-doctoral level, diplomat, politician, or business executive, working on those parts of the Middle East to which Sir William Luce devoted his working life (the Gulf states, South Arabia, Iran and Sudan and South Sudan). The fellowship is hosted by Durham University during the Easter term of each academic year. Recent fellows have included Professor Mark Katz, Edward Thomas, Helen Lackner, Richard Barltrop, Ambassador John W. Limbert and Dr Leben Moro.
The Fund is looking for research proposals that provide fresh perspectives on urgent regional issues that particularly affect the Gulf States, South Arabia and Iran. The Fund notes that the University holds several collections relating to the MENA region, including the Gulf, and also the Sudan Archive; applicants are encouraged to reference these historical collections in their research proposals. The Committee administering the Sir William Luce Memorial Fund reserves the right not to make an appointment to a Fellowship.
The Fellowship, tenable jointly in the Institute for Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies and Trevelyan College, entitles the holder to full access to departmental and other University facilities such as Computing and Information Services and the University Library. The Fellowship also carries a grant, accommodation and all meals for the duration of the Fellowship. Fellows reside at Trevelyan College and are warmly encouraged to take a full part in the life of the Senior Common Room during their residence.
The Fellow is expected to deliver a lecture on the subject of his or her research which will be designated ‘The Sir William Luce Lecture’, and should be cast in such a way as to form the basis of a paper to be published in a special edition of the Durham Middle East Papers series.
Applicants for the 2024 Fellowship (22 April-21 June 2024) should send a CV (of no more than 2 pages), a two to three-page outline of their proposed research and contact details for two referees, preferably by e-mail, by Monday 16 October 2023 to:
The Honorary Secretary
Sir William Luce Memorial Fund
Durham University Library
Palace Green
Durham
DH1 3RN
United Kingdom
Email: luce.fund@durham.ac.uk
Call for applications: https://libguides.durham.ac.uk/asc-sudan-archive/blog/Call-for-applications-2024-Sir-William-Luce-fellowship-Institute-for-Middle-E
Past Sir William Luce papers: https://www.durham.ac.uk/departments/academic/school-government-international-affairs/research/fellowships/william-luce-fellowship/visiting-fellows-and-sir-william-luce-papers/
13. Four Central Asian Shrines
A Socio-Political History of Architecture
R.D. McChesney
Brill, 2021
https://brill.com/display/title/59906
14. The Mamluk Sultanate : a history
Carl Petry, Carl
Cambridge, 2022
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/mamluk-sultanate/48BF079B3C0D6661BC028DAF070BADF6
15. Assistant Professor in Arab Studies (Tenure-track), Davidson College, North Carolina
We seek applications from candidates who research and teach one or more aspects of Arab culture, with preference given to candidates focused on the modern period. We welcome applications from candidates whose work falls within any field in literary, cultural, and/or media studies. Native-level fluency in Arabic is required. Research proficiency in a second language spoken in the Middle East is desirable.
Deadline for applications: 15 September 2023. Information:
https://employment.davidson.edu/en-us/job/494523/assistant-professor-in-arab-studies-tenuretrack
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