Shii News – Academic Items
1.ASPIRANTUM offers three enriching online courses designed to immerse you in the beauty and complexity of the Persian language and Iranian linguistics.
Here are the details of the courses:
Learn Persian through Saadi’s Golestan: This three-week course, running from February 12, 2024, to March 1, 2024, allows you to learn Persian through the exploration of Saadi’s Golestan.
https://aspirantum.com/courses/learn-persian-through-saadi-golestan
Introduction to Iranian Languages: This two-week course, from March 4, 2024, to March 15, 2024, provides a comprehensive overview of the Iranian languages.
https://aspirantum.com/courses/introduction-to-iranian-languages
Learn Persian Through Rumi’s Masnavi: This three-week course, running from March 18, 2024, to April 5, 2024, offers an engaging way to learn Persian through the study of Rumi’s Masnavi.
https://aspirantum.com/courses/learn-persian-through-rumi-masnavi
2. ONLINE Seminar “Americans’ Technological Empire in Arabia” by Karine Walther (Georgetown Qatar), Centre for Gulf Studies, Exeter, 23 January 2024, 17:00 – 18:30 h, GMT
This talk examines the role that Western technology, in the forms of medicine, industrial development, agricultural training, and military weaponry and training, played in advancing American interests in Saudi Arabia in the period between 1889 and 1952, as differing groups of Americans helped forge the United States’ “special relationship” with the kingdom.
Information and registration: https://www.exeter.ac.uk/events/details/index.php?event=13315
3. ONLINE Seminar “Narratives of Protection: Gendered Power Structures and Statecraft in Qatar and the UAE” by Dr Haya Al-Noaimi (Northwestern Qatar), Centre for Gulf Studies, Exeter, 6 February 2024, 17:00 – 18:30 h, GMT
The talk challenges modern Emirati and Qatari notions of ‘security’, analyzing instead moments where the provision of protection operates as a ‘racket’ in and through nation-building processes. Gender, acting as a vehicle and crucial link, can help us understand how narratives of protection translate into political and security conditions and why they become weaponized by the state whenever the trajectory of state development is faced with potential disruption.
Information and registration: https://www.exeter.ac.uk/events/details/index.php?event=13316
4. ONLINE Book Talk “Provincial Jews and Ottoman Power” by Orit Bashkin (University of Chicago), Center for Middle East Studies, Brown University, Providence, RI, 29 February 2024, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST
This talk seeks to understand the ways in which Jewish communities commented on the politics, histories, and religions of the Ottoman Empire. Bashkin looks at Jewish communities in the Arab provinces of the Ottoman Empire, where many Jews, she argues, not only favored Ottoman and autonomous and semi-autonomous Arab rule, for geopolitical reasons but also perceived Muslim military victories as components of a Jewish Divine plan.
Information and registration:
https://watson.brown.edu/cmes/events/2024/orit-bashkin-provincial-jews-ottoman-power
5. Conference of the “Association for Analytic Learning about Islam and Muslim Societies (AALIMS)” on the “Political Economy of the Muslim World”, Harvard University, 19-20 April 2024
Nominations for presentations by advanced PhD students can be made up to 31 January 2024.
Program: https://aalims.org/aalims-harvard-conference-on-the-political-economy-of-the-muslim-world-2024/
6. PhD Research Grants for Research in Turkey (10-12 Months, 2024/25) to PhD Candidates not Living in Turkey, Orient-Institut Istanbul
Prefered themes: Musicological research on the Ottoman Empire and Turkey. – Narrative sources on Istanbul and the Ottoman Empire. – Past and contemporary forms of religious expression in the regions investigated at the OII (since the 11th century). – Turkology (Linguistics and Literary Studies), – Iran. – Entanglements between Turkish or Ottoman society, culture and literatures on the one, and the Mediterranean, Iran, etc. on the other side. – Ottoman modernities.
Deadline for applications: 2 January 2024. Information: https://www.oiist.org/en/scholarship/
7. PhD Candidate for Study on “Migrant Muslim Foodways”, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
How does food mediate social encounters in diverse migratory contexts? And how do such exchanges impact Muslims’ practices and beliefs? Under this framework, we invite you to identify your own research questions, theoretical lens, methodological tools, and case studies. Profile: You have an MA degree in religious studies, anthropology, migration studies, or another discipline related to your project. You have a demonstrated inter-est in food and food-related practices.
Deadline for applications: 26 February 2024. Information:
https://www.ru.nl/en/working-at/job-opportunities/phd-candidate-migrant-muslim-foodways
8. Fellowships in Jordan and the Middle East of the “American Center of Research (ACOR)” for Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students, and Postdoctoral Researchers
– ACOR-Jordanian Graduate Student Fellowships:
https://orcfellowships.smapply.org/prog/acor_-_jordanian_graduate_student_fellowships/
– ACOR Named Fellowships: https://orcfellowships.smapply.org/prog/GkH7nSD7mWw75Mf7wc69/
– ACOR-NEH Fellowship: https://orcfellowships.smapply.org/prog/G4z5kMr2fCZmVdBcCS6f/
– ACOR-CAORC Pre-Doctoral Fellowship: https://orcfellowships.smapply.org/prog/NpTdQGNWxsk6D65pgKxV/
Deadline for application: 15 February 2024
9. Fellowship for Scholars of the Contemporary Middle East and North Africa, Crown Center for Middle East Studies, Brandeis University
The fellowship is open to all disciplines – particularly politics, economics, history, religion, sociology, or anthropology – for the 2024-2025 academic year. Successful applicants must be tenure track or tenured professors (or equivalent) with a well-established publication record seeking a faculty leave appointment and interested in engaging in a substantive research or book project, mentoring the Center’s junior research fellows, and contributing to the Center’s publications.
Deadline for applications: 1 January 2024.
Information: https://academicprogramsonline.org/ajo/fellowship/26475
10. Senior Lecturer in Language and Culture Studies (Arabic), Trinity College, Hartford, CT
We are seeking candidates with a PhD in Arabic Language, Literature and culture studies, Music and Art in the Middle East and North Africa, or another related field (degree received by the time of appointment) with an excellent record in undergraduate teaching (minimum of five years of teaching experience), native or near-native fluency in Arabic and English, and experience in the use and implementation of classroom technologies.
Deadline for applications: 15 January 2024. Information: https://trincoll.peopleadmin.com/postings/3177
11. Visiting Assistant Professor of Arabic (Modern Languages and Literatures), Swarthmore College
We encourage applications from candidates with expertise in cinematic and cultural productions addressing diverse issues in the Arab world, war narratives, refugee literature, and other significant subfields of modern and contemporary Arabic literature and culture. Successful candidates must be able to teach at all levels in our language sequence, including advanced content courses in Arabic literature and culture in the target language, as well as courses in English.
Deadline for applications: 15 January 2024. Information: https://apply.interfolio.com/136156
12. Prix de thèse “Islam, Moyen-Orient et mondes musulmans”, GIS Moyen-Orient et mondes musulmans. 2024-1
Sont éligibles des travaux soutenus en français ou en France entre le1er janvier 2022 et le 31 décembre 2023, dans toutes les disciplines des lettres et sciences humaines et sociales. L’organisation de ces prix de thèse entend distinguer des travaux de recherche portant sur l’Islam, le Moyen-Orient et les mondes musulmans, caractérisés par leur excellence et leur caractère particulièrement innovant en sciences humaines et sociales.
Envoyer un dossier complet au plus tard le s12 janvier 2024.
Information : https://iismm.hypotheses.org/files/2023/11/Appel-prix-de-these-2024-1.pdf
13. Articles on “Middle East Critique: Situating the Gulf’s Anti-Imperialist Currents in History and Theory” for a Special Issue of the Journal “Middle East Critique”
Deadline: 15 September, 2024
14. Articles for New Journal Transmediterranean History
This open access journal publishes articles with a keen focus on source material covering various aspects of transmediterranean history in the period between c. 600 and 1650. The contributions provide access to excerpts of primary sources in their original language alongside translations and commentaries on the author and their work;. etc.. Additionally, each entry gives revised bibliographies of editions, translations, and secondary literature. The anthology appears biannually in German, English, and Arabic.
Information: https://ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/transmed/index.php/tmh/index
15. AKU-ISMC: 13 Dec 2023 Virtual Open Day
Join AKU-ISMC students, staff and academics online for a Virtual Open Day on Wednesday 13 December at 12:00 -14:00 (London Time) to learn about our MA in Muslim Cultures, find out about admissions, quiz current students on academic life, and have the opportunity to ask your own questions.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/aku-ismc-virtual-open-day-tickets-741533455527?aff=oddtdtcreator
16. Islamic Art Circle at SOAS
10 January 2023
Michael Rogers Memorial Lecture
Sovereignty materialized: Sartorial presence and perpetuity
in Ottoman Kingship
Dr Ünver Rüstem
Second Decade Society Associate Professor of Islamic Art and
Architecture at Johns Hopkins University
Islamic Art Circle
at SOAS
7 February 2024
Courtly mediators: Italian, Ottoman, and Mamluk gift
exchanges
Dr Leah Clarke
Kellogg College/Associate Professor in History of Art, Director of Studies,
History of Art, Department for Continuing Education, University of Oxford
13 March 2024
The Hadassah and Daniel Khalili Memorial Lecture
in Islamic Art and Culture
The role of the architect in designing spaces for women
in mosques
Professor Bernard O’Kane
American University of Cairo
24 April 2024
Legacies of art, architecture and culture in historic Mosul:
A story of resistance and resilience in the context of
adversity
Prof. Mohammed Gamal Abdelmonem
Chair in Architecture & Director, Centre for Architecture, Urbanism and
Global Heritage. Nottingham Trent University
8 May 2024
Image and frame in Late Antiquity and early Islam: An
exploration of visual strategies
Dr Marcus Milwright
British Academy Global Professor in the Department of History of Art,
University of York and Professor of Islamic Art and Archaeology at the
University of Victoria, Canada
12 June 2024
The iconography of Qajar As Nas cards
Dr Natasha Morris
Lecturer in Islamic Art
School of Arts, SOAS
All lectures start at 1900 hours and will be held in the Khalili
Lecture Theatre (KLT), under the Library in the Phillips
Building
17. Indiana University’s summer 2024 Language Workshop is accepting applications for its intensive Arabic immersion program.
Based on the principles of the National Arabic Flagship Program, Indiana’s program offers 3 levels of intensive Arabic, featuring 20 hours of instruction a week plus daily one-on-one skills training, tutoring, daily cultural events, Arabic-only dorm living, and opportunities to specialize in Darija, Shami, or Masri, in addition to Fusha.
Funding is available. See http://languageworkshop.indiana.edu/funding for details.
Eligibility: IU and non-IU students; undergraduates, graduates, postgraduates, scholars, faculty, lifelong learners, and others aged 16+.
Special in 2024: Qatar Foundation Scholarships for high-school students embarking on Arabic majors in college.
Application deadline is 2024 FEBRUARY 2 and Winter Break is an ideal time to apply for summer study!
Courses are proficiency oriented and intensive, providing 2 semesters of instruction in 2 months, and feature regular cultural enrichment activities.
Course details and application forms are at http://languageworkshop.indiana.edu
Mail questions to languageworkshop@iu.edu or visit Virtual Office Hours.
See https://languageworkshop.indiana.edu/about/VirtualOfficeHours.html for link and schedule.
Contact Information
Kathleen Evans, Director, Indiana University Language Workshop
Contact Email
URL
http://languageworkshop.indiana.edu/arabic
18. Indiana University’s summer 2024 Language Workshop is accepting applications for an online summer course in Professional Academic MSA. Led by Dr. Attia Youseif, the course is aimed at very advanced speakers and heritage speakers wishing to improve their command of formal, academic Arabic.
Funding is available. See https://languageworkshop.indiana.edu/languages/online-hybrid/arabic for details.
Eligibility: IU and non-IU students; undergraduates, graduates, postgraduates, scholars, faculty, lifelong learners, and others aged 16+.
Application deadline is 2024 FEBRUARY 2 and Winter Break is a perfect time to apply.
The course is intensive, providing 2 semesters of instruction in 2 months, and features regular cultural enrichment activities.
Course details and application forms are at http://languageworkshop.indiana.edu.
Mail questions to languageworkshop@iu.edu or visit Virtual Office Hours.
See https://languageworkshop.indiana.edu/about/VirtualOfficeHours.html for link and schedule.
Contact Information
Kathleen Evans, Director, Indiana University Language Workshop
Contact Email
URL
http://languageworkshop.indiana.edu/arabic
19. Indiana University’s summer 2024 Language Workshop is accepting scholarship applications for Online Intensive SORANI KURDISH, PERSIAN (FARSI), and TURKISH until February 2, 2024. Please remind your colleagues and students that Winter Break is an ideal time to apply for summer funding.
For scholarship details, see http://languageworkshop.indiana.edu/funding .
Eligibility: IU and non-IU students; undergraduates, graduates, postgraduates, scholars, faculty, lifelong learners, and others aged 16+.
Application deadline is 2024 FEBRUARY 2.
Courses are proficiency oriented and intensive, providing 2 semesters of instruction in 2 months, and feature regular cultural enrichment activities.
Course details and application forms are at http://languageworkshop.indiana.edu
Mail questions to languageworkshop@iu.edu or visit Virtual Office Hours.
See https://languageworkshop.indiana.edu/about/VirtualOfficeHours.html for link and schedule.
Contact Information
Kathleen Evans, Director, Indiana University Language Workshop
Contact Email
URL
http://languageworkshop.indiana.edu/
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