Shii News – Academic Items
1.History of the Caucasus. Volume two, In the shadow of great powers
Baumer, Christoph, author.
London : I.B. Tauris; 2024
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/history-of-the-caucasus-9780755636280/
2. UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies
A Celebration of 100 Years of the Towfigh Satirical Magazine
Sunday, February 4, 2024 at 4:00 pm, Royce Hall 314
Alternate live stream on Zoom:
3. The Middle East Institute at Columbia University invites applications for an appointment as Arcapita Visiting Professor of Modern Arab Studies for a one-semester position for the fall 2024 or spring 2025 semester.
The position may be filled at the rank of Visiting Assistant Professor, Visiting Associate Professor, or Visiting Professor. We are interested in candidates whose field of research and teaching is in history, culture, or social sciences of the modern Arab world. The incumbent will be expected to teach one course, participate in the activities of the Middle East Institute, and give a brown bag lecture and other such public lectures as may be appropriate.
_Qualifications__ _
Ph.D., record of scholarly publications, and proven teaching experience in English are required by the beginning of the appointment.
For more information and to apply: http://apply.interfolio.com/139252 <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__apply.interfolio.com_139252&d=DwMFAg&c=009klHSCxuh5AI1vNQzSO0KGjl4nbi2Q0M1QLJX9BeE&r=PnZrXAvwTBIA2A2VJjlOh8T2_17BrGfb44kdry7yJTE&m=bG7MnPK0L6xaa2RC6uX0Ywr5gG4PWc7SPMk8dGpE05odcagFVcxXeyiECrRZw0aL&s=XCo5rSNgGmtYMUxPRZJPIm8Asd442JeYQd2s7KpWlig&e=>
4. UCL Press is delighted to announce the publication of a new open access book that may be of interest to list subscribers: Shopping with Allah: Muslim pilgrimage, gender and consumption in a globalized world, by Viola Thimm. Download it free: https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F3S1QTir&data=05%7C02%7CAndrew.J.Newman%40ed.ac.uk%7Ca2ca5bb0f3ab4dc240c708dc17475091%7C2e9f06b016694589878910a06934dc61%7C1%7C0%7C638410842410604727%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=X%2Bq6WV9PNBQCdyNR57LiVhhOUFDQsk%2B33YFSCdZ6eiY%3D&reserved=0
5. 18th-Century Persian (Blue) Mosque in Yerevan (Armenia):
6. We extend a warm invitation to all those with a keen interest in exploring the fascinating intersection between the Bible and the Qur’an to consider submitting a paper to the Qur’an and Islamic Tradition in Comparative Perspective Unitat the International Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature(https://www.sbl-site.org/meetings/Congresses_CallForPaperDetails.aspx?MeetingId=44&VolunteerUnitId=518).
The conference is scheduled to take place from 28 July to 1 August 2024, in the enchanting city of Amsterdam, Netherlands.
The deadline for paper or session proposals is 13 February 2024.
We warmly encourage submissions from individuals representing a diverse spectrum of voices and at various levels of their careers, including graduate students.
If you possess insights into the hermeneutical connections or intertextuality between Biblical or extra-Biblical texts and the Qur’an or Islamic tradition, this is an opportunity to share your knowledge and perspectives with and get some feedback from a wider academic community.
7. Literature in Persian Language Pedagogy: new Persian language pedagogy webinar of 2024-2025
We are pleased to announce the new Persian language pedagogy webinar of 2024-2025, titled, “Literature in Persian Language Pedagogy,” co-organized by UChicago’s NELC/CMES and the University of Toronto’s Elahe Omidyar Mir-Djalali Institute of Iranian Studies.
This webinar runs from January 2024 to December 2025, and all the lectures will be on zoom and on a Saturday once a month during the academic year. The poster of each lecture will be distributed in advance.
Zoom Registration Link:
https://utoronto.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0kc-ihqDsiHdyCV9jJswo_b4rGF_2f2UeI#/registration
Saturday, 27 January 2024, 4:00 PM
How to Teach a Persian Poem?
Multiple Approaches to Persian Poetry
Ali-Asghar Seyed-Gohrab
Utrecht University
Saturday, 16 March 2024, 12:00 PM
Literary Translation in Persian Language Courses
Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi
University of Chicago
Saturday, 6 April 2024, 12:00 PM
Flames, Flowers, and Butterflies: Interpreting the Literary Language
Pardis Minuchehr
University of California, Santa Barbara
Saturday, 4 May 2024, 12:00 PM
Reading What They Speak: Learning Persian through Eulogiesa and Accolades
Yass Alizadeh
New York University (NYU)
8. Apply Now: The Tenth Yemen Exchange Conference (Virtual)
An Intensive Online Course on Yemen
22 April – 3 May 2024
https://sanaacenter.org/event/the-tenth-yemen-exchange
deadline: 15 March 2024
9. Lecture – How Jerusalem Became an Islamic City, Nasser Rabbat, AUC, Cairo, January 27
The Department of Arab and Islamic Civilizations (ARIC) at the American University in Cairo (AUC), in coordination with the AUC Bookstores, is honored to host this upcoming lecture by Professor Nasser Rabbat, Aga Khan Professor and Director of the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Professor Rabbat will deliver a lecture on “How Jerusalem Became an Islamic City” on Saturday 27 January, 2024, at 6.00 pm at Hill House, Room 602 (6th Floor), AUC Tahrir Square Campus.
This is an in-person public lecture, no prior registration is required. Visitors might be requested to show a photo ID at the AUC campus gates.
Please join us!
For more information, please email: aric@aucegypt.edu
10. Call for papers – EAA ANNUAL MEETING, Rome, August 2024
Session #676 “Pots in Transition: Resilience, Change, and Revival in Central Asia and Its Neighbourhood from the Perspective of Ceramics Research”.
We invite all colleagues and students interested in any of the following topics on Central Asian ceramics to contribute to this session at the 30th EAA Annual Meeting in Rome to be held from 28 to 31 August 2024.
Deadline: 8 February 2024. https://submissions.e-a-a.org/eaa2024/
Here you can find the abstract:
“Central Asian ceramics, of both pre-Islamic and Islamic date, are a very vast field of study, where many different areas of scholarly expertise, methodological approaches, and academic traditions converge. Indeed, the pottery itself is highly diverse, but at the same time many links and correspondences are traceable through time and space across assemblages of different periods and regions. Therefore, comparative analysis and data sharing between ceramic corpora of different sites are fundamental to a better understanding of such complex and multifaceted dynamics. The lack of common standards and methodology in ceramic processing and data collection, however, often inhibits any comparative approach.
As scholars working in this field, we feel the need to set the state of the art and shape a new agenda in Central Asian ceramic and material culture studies.
Many issues are still to be thoroughly investigated; among them, we have chosen particularly stimulating topics that are deemed to raise lively debates:
– the complex issue of the transition between the pre-Islamic and the Islamic periods as visible in ceramics: cut or continuity;
– the revival of past fashions, techniques, styles, colours, etc. in ceramics;
– communal uniqueness (unique technology, unique use of specific raw materials, unique style, etc) of ceramic productions, how to interpret them? local response/originality or contacts with distant cultures that are not otherwise evident;
– towards a common agenda and a minimum standard for recording and classification of Central Asian pottery: proposals and case studies.
Speakers are welcome to present data from their archaeological or art history projects, but at the same time are very much encouraged to pay attention to the methodological aspect of their research work, aiming for a final discussion on new standards, shared analytical approach, online platforms, and meeting places for interchanging news, projects, ideas.”
For further information, visit the page https://www.e-a-a.org/EAA2024/Programme.aspx?WebsiteKey=20b5538d-68f8-4056-9596-1ae1ce0ead47&hkey=fe6595a9-39e9-47f1-8159-520091f89dfa&Program=3#Program
Agnese Fusaro – University for Foreigners of Siena – International University (Italy); agnese.fusaro@unistrasi.it
Gabriele Puschnigg – Institute of Iranian Studies, Austrian Academy of Sciences (Austria); Gabriele.Puschnigg@oeaw.ac.at
Jacopo Bruno – Sapienza University of Rome (Italy); Institute of Iranian Studies, Austrian Academy of Sciences (Austria); jacopo.bruno@uniroma1.it
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Agnese Fusaro
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11. Virtual Islamic Art History Seminar Series: Spring 2024 Speakers
The Virtual Islamic Art History Seminar Series (VIAHSS) is pleased to announce an exciting roster of talks for Spring 2024! All talks are presented via Zoom on Fridays at noon EST/5PM UK/7PM Turkey (unless otherwise noted). These lectures are free and open to all audiences.
Friday, January 26, 2024
Marianna Shreve Simpson (Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, University of Pennsylvania)
Master of the Minute: ʿAbdullah al-Shirazi, Artistic Identity and Art Historical Perception
Friday, February 9, 2024
Mogheesa Hasnain Rajput (Independent Researcher)
Captive Memories: The Mosque of Wünsdorf
Friday, February 23, 2024
Mira Xenia Schwerda (Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Edinburgh)
Intimate Strangers: Visual Arts and the Emergence of Print-Based Celebrity Culture in 19th-Century Iran
Friday, March 8, 2024
Mikael Muehlbauer (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
The Fatimid Mausoleum at Qus (Upper Egypt) and Antiochene Cosmography
Friday, March 22, 2024
Elizabeth Rodini (Vartan Gregorian Center for Research in the Humanities, New York Public Library)
As the World Turns: The On-Going Geopolitics of Gentile Bellini’s Portrait of Sultan Mehmed II
Friday, April 5, 2024
Farshid Emami (Rice University)
Inhabiting a Cosmopolis: Urban Quarters and Civic Selves in Safavid Isfahan
Friday, April 19, 2024
Haleh Hajyasini (Art University of Tehran)
Digitizing the Adel Farhangi Photographic Archive of Iran’s Historical Monuments
Friday, May 3, 2024
Mahroo Moosavi (Max-Planck Institute, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz; Museum of Islamic Art, Pergamon Museum, Berlin)
The Garden of Laylī-u-Majnūn’s Phantasma: Temporal Architectonics in the Illustrations of a Bodleian Copy of the Khamsa of Niẓāmī
Friday, May 17, 2024
Sarah Slingluff (University of Edinburgh) and Deniz Vural (University of Edinburgh)
Can Scholars of Islamic Art Help Decolonize Video Games?: The Case of Assassin’s Creed Mirage
To attend our inaugural event on January 26, please make sure to register in advance here:
https://wellesley.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMudeqvqD0tHdfaln6Wv89mhdXBg_EQD3By Upon registration, you’ll receive the link to access the lecture.
As always, you can find a full schedule of upcoming talks and register for our list-serv on our website at viahss.org. Although not every talk is recorded, we also have recordings of several recent talks available on the VIAHSS Vimeo page at vimeo.com/viahss. Lastly, you can follow us on X at @viahss and on Instagram at @theviahss to stay up to date on upcoming events!
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Dr. Alexander Brey and Rachel Winter
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