Shii News – Academic Items

1. University of Michigan – Ann Arbor – Postdoctoral Fellowships In Armenian Studies & Armenian History
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=66703

Closing date: January 15, 2024.

 

 

 

2. A buyer is sought for a buyer for around thirty boxes of books about the Middle East and Islam.

The volumes represent the library of the former Österreichische Orient-Gesellschaft Hammer-Purgstall (ÖOG, Austrian Orient Society). The ÖOG was founded in 1958 and closed in 2020. Its rich library includes titles in Arabic, English, German, Persian and Turkish, among other languages. If you are interested in acquiring the books or receiving further information, contact Herbert Kratky, a respected and experienced dealer in antiquities, via email: herbert.kratky@aon.at

 

 

 

 

3. Women’s Fiction Literature in the Context of Socio-Political Developments in Afghanistan

Sarwerasa Rafizada and Nasrin Rahimieh

Sunday, January 28, 2024 at 4:00pm, Royce Hall 314

Alternate live stream on Zoom:

https://ucla.zoom.us/j/99816401692

(No need to register in advance, just click the link at 4:00pm on January 28 to join.)

 

 

 

 

4. 2024 BRISMES Annual Conference

Lancaster University, Lancashire • 1-3 July 2024

Submission deadline extended to 12 January, at 11.59 PM (UK time)

You can read the conference’s main theme here; additionally, we encourage proposals on any topic related to the Middle East and North Africa. Areas of relevance to BRISMES include (but are not limited to) politics, culture and society, language, literature, history, linguistics and translation studies in and related to the MENA region. We also welcome panel/roundtable proposals in non-English languages spoken in the MENA region.

BRISMES will operate a Solidarity Fund for colleagues without institutional funding or facing financial hardship. So please apply if you need additional funds to support your attendance. The application will be made available with the opening of the registration period.

For those in secure positions, please donate to the fund to ensure your colleagues in more precarious jobs can join us in Lancaster.

Please take a look at the instructions for submission and submit your individual/co-authored paper, panel or roundtable by the deadline.

We hope to see many of you in Lancaster in July 2024.

Submit here

 

 

 

5. CFP – Phanariot Materialities: Aspects of Domestic Architecture, Urban Culture, and Social Mobility, Istanbul, June 2024

Phanariot Materialities: Aspects of Domestic Architecture, Urban Culture, and Social Mobility

Fenerlilerin Maddi Dünyası: Evin Mimarisi, Kent Kültürü ve Sosyal Hareketlilik Üzerine

Istanbul, 29–30 June 2024

Application Deadline: 30 January 2024

Submissions and queries: phanar.mater@gmail.com

The Research Center of Anatolian Civilizations (ANAMED), in collaboration with Meşher and Sismanoglio Megaro, welcomes submissions from scholars at any stage in their careers to an international symposium on Phanariot material culture to be held in Istanbul on 29–30 June 2024. As part of an overarching three-year research program entitled “Phanariot Materialities,” scientifically led by Namık Günay Erkal, Firuzan Melike Sümertaş, and Haris Theodorelis-Rigas, the symposium will focus on the material and social history of the Phanariots, the Greek-Orthodox Christian notables of Ottoman Istanbul. It aims at facilitating interdisciplinary discussion on Phanariot material culture, with a particular focus on residential architecture, urbanism, family and households, communalities, neighborhoods, domesticity, etiquette, and performativity. In this light, Phanar may be approached not only as an urban neighborhood or ecclesiastical center but also as the heart of a spatial network extending far beyond Istanbul and even beyond the former Ottoman territories.

The symposium is a follow-up event from an online international workshop series that took place in spring 2023 and will pave the way for a collaborative exhibition planned for fall 2025 in Istanbul and other cities. Papers admitted to the symposium will be reviewed for inclusion in a publication planned for late 2025.

 

 

 

6. UCLA Iranian Studies

Alborz: We Climb Mountains

A Film Screening

 

Sunday, January 7, 2024 at 4:00pm Pacific Time | Royce Hall 314

https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/iranian-studies-alborz-we-climb-mountains-film-screening/

 

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