Shii News – Academic Items

1.Articles of interest in the 50th volume of The Textile Museum Journal, now available through https://museum.gwu.edu/subscribe-journal.

‘Two Velvet Letter Pouches and Their Role in Safavid Diplomacy’ by Anna Jolly and Corinne Mühlemann

‘Professor Wace’s Turkish Sampler: Ottoman Women Embroiderers and Continental Collectors of Woven Archaeologies’ by Deniz Türker

‘Yusuf and Zulaikha in Sufi Poetry and Safavid Silks’ by Nazanin Hedayat Munroe

For subscriptions to The Textile Museum Journal 50 and access to earlier issues, please visit https://museum.gwu.edu/subscribe-journal. For submissions, more information or questions, please contact The Textile Museum Journal editorial team at tmjournal@gwu.edu  or check https://museum.gwu.edu/textile-museum-journal.

 

 

 

2. British Library Endangered Archives Project:

Iranian Performance Arts Journals Pre-1979 (EAP1200)

The journals scanned in Tehran as part of the British Library Endangered Archives Project are now accessible on the British Library Endangered Archives Project  site at: https://eap.bl.uk/project/EAP1200.

We have also begun uploading these journals in an indexed fashion on the Golistan Project site in the printed matter section at: https://www.golistan.org/collection/?type=Read&sub_type=Journals.

 

 

 

 

3. Thijl Sunier, author of the recently published Making Islam Work, is giving a lecture at Leiden University on Islamic authority among Muslims in Western Europe.

The lecture is part of the ‘What’s New?!’ lecture series, organized by LUCIS and the department of Middle Eastern Studies to focus on current research on Islam and the Middle East. Sunier will present his new book and discuss how Islamic authority plays a role in public debates about (sometimes) controversial issues related to the presence of Muslims in Europe.

Thursday 14 December 2023; 17:15 – 18:15; Lipsius Building

Find out more and register here.

 

 

 

 

4. Governing the Frontiers in the Ottoman Empire
Notables, Tribes and Peasants of Muş (1820s-1880s)
Gülseren Duman Koç

Brill, 2023

 

 

 

 

5. The Book of the Cow
An Early Qur’ānic Codex on Papyrus (P. Hamb. Arab. 68)
Mathieu Tillier and Naïm Vanthieghem

Brill, 2023

 

 

 

6. Qur’anic Scientific Cultural Tourism (QSCT) 2024 Spring Program

http://zabanshenasitarikhi.ir/p/62//
QSCT program welcomes those interested in Qur’anic Academic tourism in QSCT network of Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Oman, Saudi Arabia, India, and Turkey
Notes:
1. IQP (Int. Qur’anic Parliament) members can join QSCT 2024 program and receive exclusive member benefits. To become IQP member you can join us via:
http://zabanshenasitarikhi.domainuser.ir/c/main.php
2.Applicants can apply for the 7-day 2024 Spring period
3.Applicants can send their application attached with a short cv to: ahmadi_mh@ut.ac.ir
4.The results of approval of applications will be announced by the end of February 2024
For more information
http://zabanshenasitarikhi.ir/
Program type (A, B, C, D)
A) Visiting of Qur’anic Scholars
B) Visiting of Qur’anic Academic centers
C) Candidate delivering Academic Lectures in Qur’anic Academic centers
D) IQP special Program for IQP members
Candidates:
1) Full professor in Qur’anic / Islamic studies
2) Assistant/associate professor Qur’anic / Islamic studies
3) PhD students in Qur’anic / Islamic studies
4) Hafiz (Memorizer) / reciter of the Holy Quran
5) Qur’anic activists

أمانة تأسيس المجلس الدولي المستقل للقرآن الکریم
Ind. Int. Quranic Parliament (IQP)

 

 

 

7. Online Event ~ TRANSNATIONAL PERSIAN HISTORY AND LITERATURE

13.12.23

The MESA Global Academy
and
The History Department of the
University of Pennsylvania
present
Dr. Nasir Ahmad Arian
Penn State University
and
Dr. Khalilullah Afzali
UCLA
Moderated by Dr. Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet
University of Pennsylvania
Wednesday, December 13
Noon Eastern
Zoom link: https://tinyurl.com/mrfjc96h
Please email mimi@mesana.org  to receive the Zoom passcode for the event

 

 

8. 5th Spatial Humanities conference will be held in

Bamberg on September 25th to 27th 2024.

Abstract submission deadline: 15th Feb 2024

Spatial Humanities 2024 welcomes submissions on all aspects of using geospatial
technologies in humanities research, methodological innovations, and applied research that
develops our understanding of the geographies of the past. We welcome contributions from
anyone working on computational approaches to spatial questions in the humanities and
arts. These disciplines include, but are not limited to, history (including fields from social
history such as historical demography and environmental history), archaeology, heritage and
conservation studies, literary studies, classics, linguistics, art history, anthropology and
religious studies, as well as from interdisciplinary and/or technical fields including GIS, digital
humanities, computational linguistics and computer science. Abstracts should be between
750–1000 words for full papers and 500–750 words for posters.

This year the conference will take place in Bamberg, Germany, a UNESCO World Heritage
Site. Accordingly, the conference will feature a special session with a focus on Spatial
Humanities and Heritage. Heritage has spatial dimensions and heritage processes are
linked to place: architecture and urban conservation, the listing of historic buildings, sites,
cultural landscapes or heritage districts. Maps of heritage ‘assets’ and archaeological sites
shape the way we perceive and understand places, as well as their cultural identity. How can
these be studied to reveal cultural boundaries and exclusivity in heritage discourses? How can
innovative multi-layered maps show alternative and diverse aspects of heritage?

We are delighted to announce that this year’s keynote speakers will be Francesca Ammon
(University of Pennsylvania) and Ross Purves (University of Zurich).

Themes

Proposals are welcomed on, but not limited to, the following themes:
– Gazetteers, e.g. urban, regional, national and international
– Artificial intelligence, e.g. computer vision, NLP, deep learning, etc.
– Spatial explorations of narratives, literary and imaginary places
– GIS and spatial analysis including 3D modeling and spatial statistics
– Deep mapping, experiences of places
– Territorial representations, transgressions, subalternity and boundaries
– Mapping mobility, spatial connections and networks
– Linking the map and the text: mixed-method approaches
– Geospatial ‘collections as data’, enrichment and annotation
– Historical maps and georeferencing
– Environmental humanities: landscapes, waterscapes and the blue humanities
– Linked Open (Geo)Data
– IIIF applications for maps and spatial data
– Labs notebooks, workflows and infrastructure
– Data mining, visualisation and the challenges of geolocation
– Building, mapping and spatially analysing heritage inventories

Venue
:Bamberg University, Markusstraße 8a, D-96047 Bamberg, Germany. The conference will be
held in person.

Early Bird Rates
Full registration costs 170 €, reduced to 120 € for students including teas & coffees and
lunches days. The conference dinner can be booked in addition.

Student Bursaries
To help support PhD students attend the conference we will be offering fee waivers to the
three abstracts judged by the organisers to be the best. If you would like to be considered for
this please mark this in the appropriate place on your submission. Note that we may require
proof that when the abstract was submitted that you were registered as a PhD student.
We plan to offer a childcare service.

For further information see https://spathum.uni-bamberg.de/
Email of the conference: spathum@uni-bamberg.de

Organisers
The Spatial Humanities Conference Association
Institutions organizing: Bamberg University, Centre for Heritage Conservation Studies and
Technologies (KDWT), Ghent Centre for Digital Humanities, Lancaster University Centre for
Digital Humanities, Digital Humanities Lab, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Northumbria
University Architecture & Built Environment and the UrbanMetaMapping consortium.

 

 

 

 

9. Call for Proposals

‘Women in Religious and Civic Leadership’

AbuSulayman Center for Global Islamic Studies Annual Conference

George Mason University

April 25-26 | Fairfax, VA

Recent decades have witnessed the increasing presence and prominence of Muslim women in a variety of civic and professional contexts, as well as in charitable, educatonal, and culturalorganizations. At the same time, explicitly religious roles for Muslim women, as religious scholars, mosque leaders, chaplains, and legal authorities also continue to expand in number, scope, and influence.

This year, the AbuSulayman Center’s annual conference will bring together both scholars and practitioners for an extended discussion of the many ways in which Muslim

women are leading, shaping, and supporting their communities. It will examine the challenges they face in these leadership roles in a world where Muslim women continue to struggle against both patriarchal and Islamophobic assumptions about their agency and influence. What are the structural and cultural obstacles they navigate in these roles, and how do these obstacles vary across different Muslim contexts? What are the religious, intellectual, ideological, or practical developments that have encouraged or facilitated the expansion of women’s engagement in public leadership roles? How has women’s leadership changed the communal dynamics, social expectations, and cultural landscape of different Muslim contexts? Are there important historical precedents for women’s leadership in premodern Muslim communities, and what is the importance of those precedents in contemporary Muslim contexts?

We invite proposals from scholars and advanced graduate students that explore the leadership

roles of women in either majority or minority Muslim communities, engaging the questions and issues raised above. We also invite presenta=ons from Muslim women community leaders, activists, and practitioners currently serving in either religious or civic roles.

Those interested should submit:

• a 300-word abstract describing their proposed presenta=on
• a brief CV/Resume (2 pages max)

Please submit your abstract to avacgis@gmu.edu by January 9, 2024.

Selected proposals will be announced by January 30, 2024.

The AbuSulayman Center will cover travel and accommodation expenses for all selected conference presenters.

 

 

 

10. CSMBR Winter School – early bird deadline is 12^thof December.

Studiolo: Digital Humanities Lab

12-15 February 2024

Organised by

Fabrizio Bigotti and Manuel Huth

Studiolo Digital Humanities Lab is a new Winter School format designed to meet the needs of those who, both inside and outside of academia, are faced with the digital revolution and want to make the most of it.

Its interdisciplinary format allows participants to get a feel for the potential of new media, while acquiring basic coding skills, knowledge of 3D modelling, Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and key concepts in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Large Language Models (LLM), as well as tools for communicating with experts in the field.

INFO AND REGISTRATION AT
https://csmbr.fondazionecomel.org/events/studiolo-digital-lab-2024/

Should you have any queries as to the registration process or the organisation of the event do not hesitate to make them known.

Kindest regards,

Andreas Hylla

Centre for the Study of Medicine and the Body in the Renaissance (CSMBR) – Assistant Coordinator

Domus Comeliana, Via Cardinale Maffi 48, 56126 Pisa, Italy

Tel.: +39.02.006.20.51 – Mobile: +39.333.13.12.203

Email: ah@csmbr.fondazionecomel.org 

 

 

 

11. Reading visual devices in early books

International conference in Turku, Finland / 15-17 May 2025
Visual or graphic devices, such as images, diagrams, charts and tables, often operate between visual and verbal modes to convey information. In books these devices may be used, for example, to illustrate and expand upon the text, to support or distract from the message conveyed by the text, or to aid in the comprehension of complex concepts which would be difficult to express through words alone. Although graphic devices may also communicate through textual elements, their main communicative tools are structure, symbolism, and cultural imagery.
How are graphic devices used, framed and understood? How were innovations and conventions of data visualization transmitted across texts and languages? How did the diachronic or geographical spread of graphic devices progress in different parts of the world?
The Early Modern Graphic Literacies (EModGraL) project organises an international conference on the study of visual/graphic devices in late medieval and early modern books in May 2025. We invite contributions from book studies, philology and historical linguistics, textual scholarship, literary studies, history of science, art history, and other related fields, including interdisciplinary approaches.
Relevant topics and themes include:
* Graphic devices (e.g. images, tables, and diagrams) and their design and use (as part of text/supplementing text)
* Emerging practices and changing conventions: aesthetics, design, technologies
* Paratext and metatext: linguistic framing and presentation of graphic devices
* Visualising knowledge and information
* Different audiences, readers, and literacies: lay/professional, learned/vernacular
* Use of graphic devices in different domains and genres: instructional and technical writing, literature, scientific writing, popular texts, religion
* Late medieval and early modern manuscripts and printed books, including various physical formats (also broadsheets, pamphlets, scrolls, letters), also early books from non-European regions and languages
* Theoretical and methodological approaches to visual devices: opportunities and challenges (including digital humanities approaches)
Early Modern Graphic Literacies (EModGraL) is a four-year research project funded by the Research Council of Finland (2021-25) and based at the Department of English, University of Turku, Finland. The project maps the use of graphic devices in early English printed books (1473-1800) to study the development of vernacular graphic literacies and early strategies of data visualization.
Stay tuned for the Call for Papers, which will be circulated in Spring 2024.
For more information, please email us at VisualBookConf@utu.fi .
Best wishes,
Early Modern Graphic Literacies Project
Matti Peikola, Mari-Liisa Varila, Aino Liira & Sirkku Ruokkeinen

 

 

 

12. Exhibition – Dining with the Sultan: The Fine Art of Feasting, LACMA – Dec. 17, 2023-Aug. 4, 2024

Dining with the Sultan: The Fine Art of Feasting at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), is on view from December 17, 2023 to August 4, 2024. The exhibition then travels to the Detroit Institute of Art, where it will be on view from September 22, 2024 to January 5, 2025.

This is the first exhibition to explore Islamic art in the context of its associated culinary traditions. Featuring some 250 works from 30 public and private collections across the U.S., Europe, and the Middle East, the exhibition celebrates how gustatory discernment was a fundamental activity at the great Islamic courts. We are also unveiling for the first time in the United States our 18th-century reception room from Damascus. The exhibition features as well a newly commissioned multimedia installation by Sadik Kwaish Alfraji recalling his mother’s homemade bread.

The multi-author exhibition catalogue is available here. More information about the exhibition can be found on the exhibition webpage or contact ame@lacma.org.

Contact Email

ame@lacma.org

URL

https://www.lacma.org/art/exhibition/dining-sultan-fine-art-feasting-0

 

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