Shii News – Academic Items
1. Transportation & Technology in Iran, 1800–1940
W Floor
Mage, 2023
2. 2024 Learning Tours and a Unique Course
Hikmat International
https://hikmat-ins.com/learning-tours/tour9/
3. Disenchanting the Caliphate: The Secular Discipline of Power in Abbasid Political Thought
H Yücesoy
Columbia U Press, 2023
https://cup.columbia.edu/book/disenchanting-the-caliphate/9780231209410
4. SYRIAC CHRISTIANITY AND THE HOLY CITY OF JERUSALEM: ENTANGLED HISTORIES IN LATE ANTIQUITY AND THE MIDDLE AGES
CATALIN-STEFAN POPA (ROMANIAN ACADEMY)
Hybrid Event: October 25, 2023 12:00 noon, White-Levy Room, Institute for Advanced Study
The lecture introduces the audience to the process of interaction of one of the most important Middle Eastern Church traditions, Syriac Christianity, with the Holy City and the Holy Land. Even if scholars have often argued that the late antique pilgrimage to the holy places was not of interest in Syriac Christianity, the sources have demonstrated the opposite. At the end of Late Antiquity and beginning of the Middle Ages, the Holy City acted in Syriac Christian canon as a matrix for encountering holiness, and a standardized process of pilgrimage became part of a recurrent devotional custom of monks and lay people.
Registration is required for both in-person or virtual attendance.
To register visit https://bit.ly/3CPZc9W
5. Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series Video Available: Anahita Mittertrainer
‘Symbols of Royal Authority? Early Sasanian Cityscapes in Southwestern Iran’, February 2023
6. “Learn Persian through the Shahname” online course, the Armenian School of Languages and Cultures – ASPIRANTUM.
This course runs for a total of two weeks, but students also have the option to participate in the first week only. The online course is scheduled to commence on September 25, 2023, and conclude on October 6, 2023. We look forward to helping you further your Persian language skills.
For more details and to apply, please visit: https://aspirantum.com/courses/learn-persian-through-shahname
7. The International Journal of Islamic Architecture is pleased to announce the 2024 Professor Hasan-Uddin Khan Article Award.
In honour of Professor Hasan-Uddin Khan’s contributions to the field of Islamic architecture, the International Journal of Islamic Architecture (IJIA) offers this award in recognition of ground-breaking scholarship on the subject published in peer-reviewed journals. The criteria on which papers will be judged are: innovation in approach(es) to posed research question(s), originality, written clarity and style, and the overall impact on research in the field. Articles should provide new insights into the field, making a distinct or significant scholarly contribution to the understanding of architecture, architectural heritage, and the built environment in the Islamic world (both historic and contemporary), especially in marginalized geographies. This award, offered every two years, is judged by a jury that includes three members of the academic community. The second award will be given in 2024 and we are delighted that Professors Kishwar Rizvi, Leïla el-Wakil, and James L. Wescoat Jr. will serve on the jury. Papers published in English in a peer reviewed journal in 2022 or 2023 will be eligible for this round of the award.
Nominations should be submitted by scholars or journal editors to the chair of the award, IJIA Associate Editor Mehreen Chida-Razvi, at HUKaward@gmail.com by 15 November 2023. Self-nominations are permitted, of a single article. The nominations should include a PDF of the published paper, full details of publication, and the author’s affiliation and contact information. The winner and runner-up will be announced in March 2024 on the IJIA website, social media platforms, and in the journal’s July issue. The winner will receive a cash prize of $1000 and a two-year subscription to IJIA; the runner-up will receive a two-year subscription to IJIA.
Contact Information
Dr Mehreen Chida-Razvi
Associate Editor & Chair, Professor Hasan-Uddin Khan Article Award
International Journal of Isamic Architecture
Contact Email
URL
https://www.intellectbooks.com/international-journal-of-islamic-architecture
8. ONLINE Symposium „Mass Violence in the (Post-)Ottoman Lands“, University of Newcastle (Australia), 6 September 2023
From the late nineteenth century, the Ottoman Empire came under the increasing strains of both internal upheavals and external pressure from great power rivals. Increasing acts of mass violence accompanied this political instability, most notably the Armenian Genocide. This Symposium interrogates the causes, pro-cesses and consequences of mass violence in the (Post-)Ottoman lands.
Information, program and registration:
https://www.newcastle.edu.au/research/centre/csov/conferences/mass-violence-in-the-postottoman-lands
9. “First Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference (ArabicNLP 2023)” Co-located with EMNLP 2023 in Singapore, 7 December 2023
Submissions must have a clear focus on specific issues pertaining to the Arabic language whether it is stand-ard Arabic, dialectal, classical, or mixed. Papers on other languages sharing problems faced by Arabic NLP researchers, such as Semitic languages or languages using Arabic script, are welcome provided that they propose techniques or approaches that would be of interest to Arabic NLP, and they explain why this is the case.
Deadline for conference papers: 5 September 2023. Information: https://arabicnlp2023.sigarab.org/
10. International Conference of the Asian Federation of Mediterranean Studies Institutes IV: “Spaces of Familiarity, Spaces of Difference in the Mediterranean”, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, 18-19 March 2024
The conference will examine the nature of this “space.” The theme encourages scholars to analyze how peoples interacted with the sea basin in their political, social, economic, cultural, and religious activities and exchanges. The theme also invites researchers to explore “familiarity” and “difference” in the study of the Mediterranean from locations, cultural backgrounds, and contexts in East Asia and elsewhere.
Deadline for abstracts: 8 September 2023. Information: https://mailchi.mp/mediterraneanseminar/cfp-asian-federation-of-mediterranean-studies-institutes-18-19-march-taipei?e=82aeb6c61d
11. HYBRID Workshop “La construction de l’islam en problème public et ses effets sur l’expérience des personnels scolaires minorisés’”, à Campus Condorcet Aubervilliers 26-27 octobre 2023, et à l’UCL Louvain-la-Neuve, 25-26 avril 2024
Cet atelier de travail ― littéralement ― vise moins à exposer des résultats qu’à mettre en discussion, entre chercheur.es intéressé.es par ces problématiques, des recherches en train de se faire. Cet espace de ren-contre sera ainsi particulièrement ouvert à la mise en débat d’enjeux épistémologiques et méthodologiques (points de vue situés, construction de l’objet et des questions, accès et construction des terrains, etc.).
Date limite d’envoi des propositions : 8 septembre 2023. Information : https://www.iremam.cnrs.fr/sites/defa ult/files/2023-07/appel_participation_workshop_personnels_scolaires.pdf
12. Chapters for “Springer Handbook of Linguistic Anthropology: Iran and Shared Spheres in Homelands and Diasporas”
This handbook welcomes scholars from all social and human science disciplines to contribute to linguistic anthropological studies. The scope of this handbook is vast and encompasses a wide range of topics and areas of investigation.
Deadline for abstracts: 1 September 2023.
13. Articles on “US Imperialism from the Middle East to Latin America after the Cold War” for Special Issue of the Journal “Middle East Critique”
Themes: How racism works globally in representations of the populations of Latin America and the Middle East as threats. – The arms trade and security connections between the regions, in particular, the role played by Israel. – Securitization processes against immigrants and refugees from Latin America and the Middle East. – Solidarity with the Palestinians and the transnational movement for boycott, disinvestment, and sanctions against Israel. – Etc.
Deadline for abstracts: 1 September 2023.
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