Shii News – Academic Items
1.HYBRID Book Launch “Thinking with the South. Reframing Reseearch Collaboration amid Decolonial Imperatives and Challenges” by Andrea Fleschenberg, Kai Kresse and Rosa Cordillera A. Castillo, Leibniz Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO), FU Seminar Centre, Berlin, 24 January 2024, 4:15 pm – 5:45 pm CET
This volume brings together a series of discussions by scholars from a range of disciplinary, (trans)regional and epistemic perspectives that came out of the Berlin-based “co2libri” networking initiative, with long-standing collaborative partners based in the global South. The book launch is part of the Berlin Anthropology Seminars.
Information and registration: https://www.zmo.de/en/events/launch-thinking-with-the-south-reframing-research-collaboration-amid-decolonial-imperatives-and-challenges
2. HYBRID Lecture “Material Life in Mid-Nineteenth Century Damascus: Christian Compensation Claims After the 1860 Massacres” by Eugene Rogan (University of Oxford), Leibniz Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO), Berlin, 25 January 2024, 5:00 pm – 5:45 pm CET
In July 1860, a violent mob destroyed the Christian quarters of central Damascus killing an estimated 5,000 people and razing hundreds of houses, businesses and religious structures. Thanks to the intervention of a small core of the city’s Muslim notables, some 85% of the Christians survived the massacre. This lecture examines the claims of Damascene Christians for compensation for their destroyed houses and the material life of nineteenth century Syrians.
Information and registration: https://www.zmo.de/en/events/material-life-in-mid-nineteenth-century-damascus-christian-compensation-claims-after-the-1860-massacres
3. 38th Annual Middle East History and Theory Conference: “The Middle East from the Margins: Geographic, Temporal, Linguistic, and Cultural Boundary Crossers”, University of Chicago, 4-5 May 2024
We invite historians, linguists, anthropologists, literary scholars, sociologists, musicologists, scholars of reli-gion, and political scientists whose work engages with a broad geography, including but not limited to, the Mediterranean, North and West Africa, and South and Central Asia, from Late Antiquity and the advent of Islam to the present.
Deadline for abstracts: 26 January 2024. Information: https://theoknights.com/mehat/2023/12/13/annual-middle-east-history-and-theory-conference-call-for-papers.html
4. “2024 Bilkent History Graduate Symposium”, Bilkent University, 9-10 May 2024
We welcome diverse, innovative, original, and creative approaches to American, Byzantine, European, Ottoman and Global History, with no chronological limits.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 March 2024. Information: https://history.bilkent.edu.tr/graduate-symposium-2024/
5. 7th Finnish Colloquium of Middle East and North African Studies: “Decolonizing Middle Eastern Studies – Critical Perspectives and Emerging Debates”, Tampere, 10-11 June 2024
We encourage proposals for panel sessions, roundtables and individual papers that break boundaries be-tween research traditions, challenge prevailing points of view, and experiment with new topics and ways of giving a conference presentation. We welcome proposals on both the historical and the contemporary Middle East – including presentations that challenge our whole conceptualization of the limits and boundaries of the ‘Middle East’ itself.
Deadline for abstracts: 21 January 2024. Information: https://www.fime.fi/call-for-papers-panels-and-roundtables-decolonizing-middle-eastern-studies-critical-perspectives-and-emerging-debates/
6. 34th Exeter Gulf Conference: “Lifeworlds of Energy and Environment in the Gulf”, Center for Gulf Studies, University of Exeter, 27-28 June 2024
Themes: In what ways have fossil fuels shaped everyday life in the Gulf? – How do we understand forms of artistic production, political mobilisation, and labour protests in petroleum producing countries of the region? – How do we understand the emergence of new energy technologies in a time of transition? – What is the politics of infrastructure construction and use in times of climate change? – How does ecological crisis shape gender, class and racial relations?
Deadline for abstracts: 19 January 2024. Information: https://arabislamicstudies.exeter.ac.uk/media/universityofexeter/instituteofarabandislamicstudies/centres/gulfstudies/conference/2024_-_V2_Exeter_Gulf_Conference_CfP_V2.pdf
7. ONLINE 58th Annual Meeting of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA), 11-16 November 2024
MESA is primarily concerned with the area encompassing Iran, Turkey, Afghanistan, Israel, Pakistan, and the countries of the Arab world (and their diasporas) from the seventh century to modern times. Other regions, including Spain, Southeastern Europe, China and the former Soviet Union, also are included for the periods in which their territories were parts of the Middle Eastern empires or were under the influence of Middle Eastern civilization.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 February 2024. Information: https://mesana.org/annual-meeting/call-for-papers
8. Colloque « Sur les routes d’Arabie ; itinéraires terrestres et maritimes ». Appel à communication
Paris, 12-14 décembre 2024.
Le colloque a pour objectif d’étudier les routes de la péninsule Arabique, qu’elles soient terrestres ou maritimes, et les échanges qu’elles ont favorisés via l’archéologie, les sciences historiques, philologiques et religieuses mais aussi les sciences de la vie. Nous adressons un appel à communication aux archéologues, historiens, historiens de l’art, épigraphistes, céramologues, philologues, ethnologues, anthropologues, biolo-gistes, archéozoologues, etc. Les communications peuvent être proposées en anglais ou en français.
Date limite : 17 Mai 2024. Information : https://www.orient-mediterranee.com/activity/colloque-sur-les-routes-darabie-itineraires-terrestres-et-maritimes-appel-a-communication/
9. Prix Michel Seurat 2024 (15 000 €), CNRS
Le Prix est ouvert aux titulaires d’un master 2 ou d’un diplôme équivalent, âgés de moins de 35 ans révolus et sans condition de nationalité, de toutes disciplines, dont la recherche doctorale en cours porte sur les sociétés contemporaines du monde arabe, domaine envisagé comme ouvert et en interaction avec d’autres contextes et traditions intellectuels.
Date limite de dépôt des candidatures : 13 avril 2024.
Information : http://majlis-remomm.fr/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Appel-Prix-Seurat-2024.pdf
Ebru Turan
Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 86 / Issue 3, October 2023, pp 447 – 464
11. A note on Pahlavi lexicography: Middle Persian hassār, hassārīh
Marco Fattori
Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 86 / Issue 3, October 2023, pp 511 – 522
doi: 10.1017/S0041977X23000757 Published Online on 16 October 2023
12. 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:
- IQP (Int. Qur’anic Parliament) members can join the QSCT 2024 program and receive exclusive member benefits. To become an IQP member, you can join us via:
http://zabanshenasitarikhi.domainuser.ir/c/main.php
- Applicants can apply for the 14-day 2024 spring period
3.Applicants can send their application no later than Jan. 23 ,2024 attached with a short cv to: ahmadi_mh@ut.ac.ir
- 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 in Qur’anic / Islamic
studies
3) PhD. students in Qur’anic / Islamic studies
4) Hafiz (Memorizer) / reciter of the Holy Quran
5) Qur’anic activists
13. PhD studentship on contextual and material study of Islamic amulets at Queen Mary University of London
We invite applications for a collaborative doctoral award, based at the School of History, Queen Mary University of London, in collaboration with the Museum of Anthropology and Archaeology, University of Cambridge. The studentship is for three and a half years, starting from September 2024. Description of the project is below, and further details are here Collaborative Doctoral Awards – Projects available – LAHP.
Successful applicants will have proficiency in Arabic and will hold MA in Islamic studies or Islamic history by the start date of the studentship. Experience in working in a museum environment or community engagement is desirable.
The deadline for applications is 26th January 2024.
Islamic amulets abound from across Dar al Islam, a testimony to a buzzing religious and commercial creativity. This project will put their materiality centre-stage by exploring production and use, elements rarely addressed in research. It will analyse amulets to learn of the craftspeople and users who had left little record in written narratives. Shedding light on little explored Islamic collections at MAA, it will develop new means for their analysis. This will put centre-stage marginalised people and collections, while employing innovative technologies to redress the imbalance of research. The proposed project will combine MAA’s extensive collections with world-leading expertise in religious and digital history at Queen Mary University of London, to add to our understanding of a key element of Islamic culture and religion. It will put these objects centre-stage, combining the examination of their materiality with documentary evidence for their production, dissemination and use. Beyond Magic will be supported by expertise from the Hidden in Plain Sight research team, who will provide a range of innovative scientific technologies, including 3D microscopy, CT scanning and ancient DNA to facilitate the student’s exploration of Islamic amulets. Results of the project will engage faith-groups and academic audiences alike.
Yossef Rapoport (y.rapoport@qmul.ac.uk) and Eyal Poleg.
Yossef Rapoport
Professor of Islamic history
Queen Mary University London
14. AKU-ISMC: 11 January, 2024 Virtual Open Day
Join AKU-ISMC students, staff and academics online for a Virtual Open Day on Thursday 11 January 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-777066455687?aff=oddtdtcreator
15. Poisons, Antidotes, and Emergent Properties
in the Early Modern Period
23 January 2024 – 5 PM (CET)
For more info, and to register:
https://csmbr.fondazionecomel.org/events/online-lectures/poisons-antidotes-and-emergent-properties/
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