Shii News – Academic Items
1.The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations of the University of Chicago is honored to have Prof. Dominic Parviz Brookshaw as the fourth speaker in the Franklin Lewis Lecture Series of 2022-2025. The lecture will be in person and on zoom on Friday, April 19 at 5:00-7:00 PM US Central Time.
Title: ‘Illusory Originality: Appropriation, Repurposing, and Response in the Poems of Tahira Qurrat al-‘Ayn’
Zoom link:
https://uchicagogroup.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0ocuqpqzkuHdC41RztwbolJdTYUouiJ6d1#/registration
2. At the end of last year, GINGKO published Precious Materials: The Arts of Metal in the Medieval Iranian World.
First published in French in 2021, the book showcases the pre-Mongol metalwork held at Louvre in Paris and has now been translated into English in an edition revised by the author, Annabelle Collinet.
3. Online: “The Introduction of Islamic Coinage in 697-98″
with Michael Bates, Stephen Heidemann, and Stuart Sears.
Friday, April 5th, @12 noon EST
https://www.gc.cuny.edu/events/introduction-islamic-coinage-697-98-and-after
4. Caliphate and Imamate
An Anthology of Medieval Muslim Texts on Political Theology
H Ansari, N Husayn, eds.
Cambridge, 2023
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/caliphate-and-imamate/93727020916F4855058FD7DC472C8EBD
5. World Cultures Curator (Arabic and Persian)
The University of Edinburgh
This post sits within Heritage Collections, Research Collections team working within the Centre for Research Collections in the Main Library in George Square. It reports to The University Archivist and Research Collections Manager. The working hours and pattern are usually 35 hours a week with much of this on campus working with the collections.
Deadline | 4 April 2024
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6. Bennett Boskey Fellowship in Modern Global History (1700 -present)
University of Oxford
Exeter College invites applications for the Bennett Boskey Fellowship in Modern Global History (1700-present). The Fellowship, which is strictly temporary, will be tenable for a period of up to 36 months (with effect from 1 September 2024, or as soon as possible thereafter). We particularly seek applications from candidates who focus on the history of the Middle East (including North Africa) or the South Atlantic (West Africa and Latin America).
Deadline | 5 April 2024
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7. Irish Research Council (IRC) Doctoral Researcher
University College Dublin
Applications are invited for a PhD doctoral researcher within the UCD School of Politics and International Relations to deliver the research objectives of a project funded by the Irish Research Council. The project applies methods from quantitative text analysis/NLP in Arabic and cognitive mapping (Axelrod 1976) to examine interviews with participants in Muslim resistance movements.
Deadline | 8 April 2024
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8. Lecturer in Arabic Studies
The University of Manchester
To further strengthen our teaching portfolio, the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures wishes to appoint a Lecturer in Arabic Studies. The post is tenable from September 1st 2024 to June 30th 2027. This post in Arabic Studies is a teaching and scholarship position. Applicants must have a relevant PhD and demonstrate the ability to meet flexible curricular and teaching needs and demonstrate capability to contribute organisationally to the wider Departmental community.
Deadline | 8 April 2024
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9. Research Associate in Early Modern Global History (Islamic World Focus)
The University of Manchester
Applications are sought for a full-time Postdoctoral Research Associate to work with Dr Edmond Smith, conducting research for the ERC-selected, UKRI-funded project “Institutional Transformation and the Entangled Commercial Cultures of International Trade, 1450-1750” (INTRECCI). The successful applicant will hold a PhD in the field of early modern, global, or economic history, or in another relevant field, with expertise in the history of trade and empire in the Islamic World.
Deadline | 10 April 2024
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10. Research Associate in Early Modern Global History (Islamic World Focus)
The University of Manchester
Applications are sought for a full-time Postdoctoral Research Associate to work with Dr Edmond Smith, conducting research for the ERC-selected, UKRI-funded project “Institutional Transformation and the Entangled Commercial Cultures of International Trade, 1450-1750” (INTRECCI). The successful applicant will hold a PhD in the field of early modern, global, or economic history, or in another relevant field, with expertise in the history of trade and empire in the Islamic World.
Deadline | 10 April 2024
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11. Evans-Pritchard Lectureship 2024-25
All Souls College, Oxford
Applications are invited for the Evans-Pritchard Lectureship, to take place during the academic year 2024-2025. The Lecturer will deliver a series of four to six lectures in the course of a month, usually during May, based on fieldwork or other indigenous primary materials concerning Africa, the Middle East or the Mediterranean, and offering an empirical analysis of social relations.
Deadline | 7 May 2024
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12. Call for Submissions | Second Symposium on Middle Eastern, North African and Central Asian Dances, Music and Performing Arts
Symposium, Pomona College (Claremont, CA), 3-6 October 2024
Submissions are invited for the second scholarly symposium on MENA and Central Asian dances. This year’s topics include music and performing arts from the same regions. The goal is to gather as many scholars as possible in one academic environment to present their most recent research. All submissions must be accompanied by an abstract (150-250 words).
Deadline | 1 April 2024
13. Hudood: Rethinking boundaries
Exhibition | Brunei Gallery | 11 July-21 September
The exhibition introduces contemporary art from the Barjeel Foundation, with a focus on the overarching theme of “Boundaries” as both a subject and a tool for meaningfully accessing a diverse array of art from the SWANA region. Delving into the profound implications of walls and borders on artistic expression, the exhibition prompts the question of whether it is the artist’s perspective that ultimately transcends these boundaries.
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14. ONLINE Webinar “Staging Piety: The Takkiyya Muʿavin al-Mulk in Kermanshah”
With Nahid Massoumeh Assemi
British Institute of Persian Studies (BIPS), 4 April 2024, 5:00 pm UK Time
This talk gives a brief account of the development of the rituals of commemoration of the Battle of Karbala in Iran, and their patronage by the state and the elites of society, who solicited the loyalty of the broader public by building takkiyyas, providing the venues for pious forms of entertainment. It also argues for the role of takkiyyas in creation of a sense of community and group identity; the formative stage of the emergent idea of nationhood at the time.
Information and registration:
https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/3717098146803/WN_Wc0se2GzSxC0F4HCmWxgEg#/registration
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- March 30, 2024
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