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1.Le CeRMI a le plaisir de vous convier à laprochaine séancedu séminaire “Sociétés, politiques et cultures du monde iranien”, qui se tiendra le jeudi 04 avril 2024, 17h-19h, en salle 3.15 à l’INaLCO (65 rue des Grands Moulins, Paris XIII, 3e étage
Nous sommes heureux d’accueillir Mme Camille Rhoné-Quer, Maîtresse de conférences à l’Université d’Aix-Marseille en délégation au CeRMI, pour une conférence intitulée : « Histoire environnementale du monde turco-iranien médiéval : état des lieux, perspectives et étude de cas (bassin versant de l’Amou Darya) ».
Résumé
L’histoire environnementale, qui analyse les rapports des sociétés à l’environnement, est née aux États-Unis dans les années 1970 et connaît un important renouveau depuis les années 2000. Toutefois, cette approche a encore été peu adoptée par les historiens des espaces turco-iraniens médiévaux. Les facteurs de ce « retard », multiples, incluent notamment la persistance d’un cloisonnement disciplinaire et épistémologique. Or, depuis quelques années, l’essor des études sur le paléoenvironnement de l’Iran oriental et de l’Asie centrale (archéobotanique, archéozoologie, etc.) permet de renouveler nos connaissances et de pallier en partie les lacunes des textes.
Lors de cette conférence, seront abordés les apports des études paléoenvironnementales des vingt dernières années sur les espaces turco-iraniens (thématiques et zones étudiées ; disciplines impliquées), ainsi qu’une réflexion sur la place qu’occupe l’époque islamique médiévale dans ces travaux, souvent consacrés à la longue durée. Nous nous intéresserons aussi aux limites scientifiques et épistémologiques de ce champ.
Enfin, après avoir abordé rapidement, en guise d’exemple, le débat historiographique sur les facteurs des migrations turkmènes et des conquêtes seldjoukides, nous proposerons une étude de cas sur l’Amou Darya : quels rapports les sociétés des premiers siècles de l’Islam entretiennent-elles avec ce fleuve ? De quel type de données (sources textuelles, archives « naturelles ») dispose-t-on pour proposer une histoire environnementale de l’Amou Darya ?
Orientations bibliographiques
- Arezou AZAD.“The Ecology and Economy of Khurasan in the 7th-8th Century,” dans A. Marsham (ed.). The Umayyad World. Londres: Routledge, 2020, p. 332-354.
- Guillaume BLANC, Élise DEMEULENAERE, Wolf FEUERHAHN (dir.). Humanités environnementales. Enquêtes et contre-enquêtes. Paris: Éditions de la Sorbonne, Série histoire environnementale, 2017.
- Richard BULLIET. Cotton, Climate, and Camels in Early Islamic Iran: A Moment in World History. New York: Columbia University Press, 2009.
- Basira MIR-MAKHAMAD, Sirojidin MIRZAAKHMEDOV, Husniddin RAHMONOV, Sören STARK, Andrey OMEL’CHENKO, Robert N. SPENGLER III.“Qarakhanids on the Edge of the Bukhara Oasis: Archaeobotany of Medieval Paykend,” Economic Botany, 75, 2021, p. 195-214.
- Jürgen PAUL.“Nomads and Bukhara. A Study in Nomad Migrations, Pasture, and Climate Change (11th century CE),” Der Islam, 2016, 93 (2), p. 495-531.
- PORTERO, A. FUSARO, R. PIQUÉ, J. M. GURT, M. ELORZA, S. GABRIEL, & S. R. PIDAEV.“The Environment in the Islamic City of Termez (Uzbekistan): Zooarchaeology and Anthracology of a 9th-century tannur,” Journal of Islamic Archaeology, 8 (1), 2021, p. 1-21.
- Liang Emlyn YANG, Hans-Rudolf BORK et alii(eds.). Socio-Environmental Dynamics along the Historical Silk Road. Cham: Springer, 2019.
Pour rappel, vous retrouverez le programme 2023-2024 du séminaire mensuel de recherche “Sociétés, politiques et cultures du monde iranien” sur le site du CeRMI :
2. Call for Papers: Graduate Interdisciplinary Conference, 27th and 28th June 2024
Deadline for proposals: 30th April 2024
University of Cambridge (In Person)
Seeing, whether through the lens of perception or representation, plays a pivotal role in shaping our understanding of the world and of those who inhabit it. Within this web of visual perception, knowledge construction, and power dynamics, we take ‘Muslimness’ as a focal point at which various modes of seeing converge, intersect, and often clash. This inquiry encompasses a study of ‘Muslimness’ as expressed in literature, film, culture, architecture, food, animal studies, fashion, and more broadly, as ‘presence’ in physical digital and spectral forms. The act of seeing goes beyond mere observation; it influences our perception, understanding, and further representation of Muslimness. These modes of seeing, whether they be oppressive, digital, communal, individual, self-perpetuating, or self-fulfilling, create discursive notions of authenticity, representation, and self-fashioning within Muslim communities. We seek to explore the multifaceted dimensions of seeing, presenting, and representing Muslimness and its profound impact on being. Building on scholarship that considers Muslimness as a plural and heterogenous social category, we aim to query what epistemological hierarchies determine how Muslimness is seen, shown and performed. What are the affective responses to Muslimness, and how do they manifest? In other words, what does Muslimness do, and what does seeing Muslimness do.
We invite scholars, researchers, and practitioners from across disciplines and genres to unpack these complex ways of seeing Muslimness and question its forms, formations and transformations. We welcome interdisciplinary perspectives from scholars engaged in fields such as cultural studies, sociology, anthropology, media & film studies, digital humanities, literature, and architecture. Potential paper topics include but are not limited to:
- Gaze, surveillance, and stereotyping
- Ideas of ‘Muslimness’ in animals, the supernatural, and the extra-human
- Digital/Physical Visual symbols in local, vernacular and global contexts
- Built and Digital Infrastructures
- Muslimness in Everyday Life: personal and communal experiences.
- Cross-border and cross-cultural Muslimness: Diasporic and migrational perspectives
- Politics of unseeing, exclusion, and erasure
- Politics of secularization
- Violence (material and non-material)
- Digital Activism
- The Spectacle and the Narrative in art, media and popular culture
- Muslimness in/as Environmentalism
- Humanist and Posthumanist Perspectives
Please submit an abstract, not exceeding 300 words, along with a brief biography.
Deadline for submissions: 30 April 2024
Notification for final acceptance: May 15 2024
Please note that this is an in-person conference. Participants will be required to be present in Cambridge on the date of the conference. We would not be able to provide travel or accommodation bursaries for the participants.
Please direct all queries to seeing.muslimness@gmail.com
For more info, please visit: https://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/41566/#description
3. IJIA OPEN FORUM ON GETTING PUBLISHED
Wednesday, March 27, 2024 (Noon–1:00PM US Eastern Time)
The International Journal of Islamic Architecture (IJIA) invites readers and potential authors – researchers, graduate students, university faculty, and professionals in architecture and related fields (including art history, urban planning, landscape design, sociology, anthropology, preservation, archaeology, etc.) – to join members of its editorial staff on Wednesday, March 27, 2024, Noon–1:00PM US Eastern Time for an open conversation on research and the publication process. The informal session will provide an opportunity for a discussion, questions, and answers regarding the IJIA publication process, the state of publication in the field, potential avenues for publishing success, and the journal’s perspective on the future of architectural studies in the Islamic world.
Please sign up at this link in order to register for this free event and for access to the Zoom session link.
4. UCLA Pourdavoud Lecture Series with Hilmar Klinkott
Consolidation of Law, Legal Order, and the Question of Constitutionalizing Processes in the Achaemenid Empire
Wednesday, April 17, 2024 at 4:00pm Pacific
Royce Hall 306
Hybrid Zoom Option Available
5. The Arabic Language and Literature department at UAE University is currently advertising a full-time professor position in Classical Arabic. They are seeking a scholar who can teach in Arabic and possess a distinguished profile in Scopus in terms of publications and citations. UAEU provides exceptional benefits, including free accommodation, a tax-free salary, a children’s school allowance, return tickets in the summer, and comprehensive health care coverage. Please feel free to reach out if you require further information.
The deadline is 31/03/2024. Here is the link to apply:
https://jobs.uaeu.ac.ae/Postings/PostingDetails/3996
6. Women Fighters in the Kurdish National Movement Transforming Gender Politics and the PKK
M Topal
Bloomsbury, 2024
7. Islam in North America
H Rashid et al eds.
Bloomsbury, 2024
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/islam-in-north-america-9781350385085/
8. MIT Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture 2024-2025 POSTDOCTORAL / POST-PROFESSIONAL DEGREE FELLOWSHIPS FOR RESEARCH IN ISLAMIC ART, ARCHITECTURE, URBANISM, DESIGN, AND PRESERVATION
Closing date 11.4.24
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=67076
9. Call for Applications – Resident Scholar Program for Lebanon-based and Lebanese Scholars
The Finnish Institute in the Middle East in Beirut is excited to announce the call for applications for its Resident Scholar Program for the period of 1 September 2024 to 28 February 2025. The application period is now open, ending on 21 April 2024.
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=67073
10. Registration is now open for the conference ‘Arts of the Indian Ocean’.
April 27 (online), May 2 – 4 (in person and online), Toronto, Canada
Registration for one or more days and the full conference program can be found on this link:
https://www.utm.utoronto.ca/dvs/arts-indian-ocean
All presentations will be livestreamed and can be viewed virtually.
Attending the conference virtually is free of charge, but registration is required.
The in-person conference (May 2-4) is free to students, but others will be asked to contribute $50 CAD, which covers refreshments and receptions
We look forward to seeing you online or would love to welcome you in Toronto!
Conveners:
Ruba Kana’an
Zulfikar Hirji
Sarah Fee
Sanniah Jabeen
Arts of the Indian Ocean brings together knowledge producers working on the Indian Ocean’s arts from diverse backgrounds and scholarly arenas to present and discuss research and work on the materialities and artistic expressions in the Indian Ocean world, across geographies — from eastern and southern Africa, through the Gulf and Red Sea to South and Southeast Asia and the south China Sea — as well as across temporalities — from antiquity up until the present-day. Through the examination of the creation, production, and circulation of material culture in a wide range of forms including the visual arts, portable objects, manuscripts and maps, ships and navigational instruments, landscape, architecture, and the built environment, textiles and dress, photography and film, as well as the digital and plastic arts, the conference seeks to: provide a platform for scholars and artists to exchange current research; map the field of Indian Ocean arts; and open up new questions on Indian Ocean pasts, presents, and futures.
Contact Information
Sarah Fee, Sr. Curator, Royal Ontario Museum
Contact Email
URL
https://www.utm.utoronto.ca/dvs/arts-indian-ocean
11. Please join the National Museum of Asian Art online on Tuesday, March 26, 12 pm EST for Partying Like It’s 599: On Feasting in Iranshahr with Touraj Daryaee, University of California, Irvine.
Multiple sources, both textual and pictorial, document banquets and feasting in late antique Iran. At the court and among the local notables of Iranshahr (Empire of the Iranians), the banquet, which in Persian is called bazm, created solidarity among the elites and imposed itself culturally among the populace. But to eat at the table of the ruler also symbolized one’s status in an empire that stretched from Balkh to the Euphrates and from the Caucasus to Arabia. The sharing of food with the king at his table meant one was held in the highest esteem and implied the distribution of the king’s glory, power, and beneficence to those seated with him. In this program, professor Touraj Daryaee will discuss the forms and ways of feasting that took place at the court of the king of kings, which reached its zenith in the sixth century CE.
Touraj Daryaee is the Maseeh Chair in Persian Studies & Culture and the director of the Dr. Samuel M. Jordan Center for Persian Studies & Culture at the University of California, Irvine. His work revolves around the history of the Sasanian Empire and the Iranian world. He is the author of Sasanian Persia: The Rise and Fall of an Empire (I.B. Tauris, 2009) and is the editor in chief of the E.J. Brill Ancient Iran Series. He is also the editor of Sasanian Studies (Harrassowitz, 2022) as well as Dabir, an online journal at UC Irvine.
Register here
View the event listing here
Contact Information
Lizzie Stein, Scholarly Programs and Publications Specialist
National Museum of Asian Art
Contact Email
URL
https://asia.si.edu/whats-on/events/search/event:173394391/
12. The Dunhuang Foundation (https://dunhuangfoundation.us/) announces our first in-person event for 2024. Dr. David Roxburgh, the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Professor of Islamic Art History at Harvard University, will be presenting his lecture, “Herat, the Pearl of Khurasan: Urban and Cultural Transformation under Shahrukh (r. 1409-1447)”.
The lecture will be held at the Lynn Wyatt Theater at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, on Wednesday, April 10th from 6:00 – 7:00 PM. The lecture is free, but does require registration. Please visit: https://bit.ly/RoxburghLecture.
Abstract
“Herat, the Pearl of Khurasan: Urban and Cultural Transformation under Shahrukh (r. 1409-1447)”
Following Timur’s death in 1405, his son and successor Shahrukh (r. 1409-1447) established Herat as the capital and embarked on a program of redevelopment. Joined by other patrons of the Timurid elite, especially his son Baysunghur, Shahrukh created optimal conditions for cultural production in the arts. His rule also witnessed a resurgence in contacts with east Asia under Ming dynasty emperor Yongle (r. 1402-1424), exchanges that brought a new wave of contemporary objects from China to the “western lands.” Focusing on selected elements of the city and its life in the 1420s and 1430s, the lecture explores the dynamics and outcomes of a cultural achievement which secured Herat’s importance as an artistic center for centuries.
Contact Information
Rachel Parikh, Deputy Director
Contact Email
URL
https://bit.ly/RoxburghLecture
13. UCLA Iranian Studies Program:
And, Towards Happy Alleys
A Film Screening
Wednesday, April 3, 2024 at 4:00pm Pacific Time | Royce Hall 314
https://nelc.ucla.edu/event/iranian-studies-and-towards-happy-alleys-film-screening/
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