Shii News – Academic Items
1.‘Shiraz on the Adriatic
Persian Literary Culture, Φαρσί Speakers and Multilingual Locals
between Cairo, the Balkans and Venice (ca. 1600–1900)’
Stefano Pellò
Iran and the Caucasus, 28 (2024).
https://brill.com/view/journals/ic/28/1/article-p42_4.xml
David Durand-Guédy, Emad al-Din Sheykh al-Hokamaee
JEHSO, 2024 (67).
3. ONLINE Colloquium “Reform Unbound: Afghanistan’s Sirāj-ul Aḳhbār (1911-19) and its Global Publics” by Sumaira Nawaz, University of Cambridge, 10 April 2024, 16:00 – 17:30 BST
This paper explores the “global” outlook of Afghanistan’s foremost Persian-language newspaper, Sirāj-ul Aḳhbār, as it negotiated new political futures for the region. Launched by Mahmud Tarzi, an emigre activist with firm networks within Ottoman and Indian reformist milieu, Sirāj was an attempt to project Afghanistan as a “Muslim utopia” (Green 2011) to readers spread across Persianate geographies.
Information: www.interfaith.cam.ac.uk/south-asia-24 . Registration: https://forms.office.com/e/Z4kN3ahf1i
4. ONLINE Colloquium “Persianate Hinduism in Colonial India: Revisiting Rammohun Roy’s Tuhfat al-muwahhidin” by Supriya Gandhi, University of Cambridge, 12 April 2024, 16:00 – 17:30 BST
Rammohun Roy (d. 1833) is a pivotal figure in the global history of Unitarianism, liberalism, and modern religious reform. Although his early years remain shrouded in obscurity, he eventually soared to fame during his lifetime and gained the status of a legend after his death. By the twentieth century, the epithet “Father of modern India” was routinely appended to his name.
Information: www.interfaith.cam.ac.uk/south-asia-24 . Registration: https://forms.office.com/e/Z4kN3ahf1i
5. HYBRID Seminar “The King`s Song: Poet Kings in the Islamic East” by Professor Ali Karjoo-Ravary, Columbia University, 18 April 2024, 5:00 EST
This talk looks at the political importance of poetic production by kings in the Islamic east in the late medieval period by considering what kings aimed to accomplish through the production of their own divans. Focusing on the Turkic poetry of Burhan al-Din of Sivas (d. 1398), it contextualizes his divan in the convergence of Sufism and political power that marked the post-Mongol Islamic east.
Deadline for registration: 11 April 2024.
Information: https://blogs.cuit.columbia.edu/islamicbooks/religionwriting/
6. ONLINE Book Presentation “Lives in the Margins: Ethnic and Religious Minorities in the Middle East” by Dr. Güneş Murat Tezcür (Arizona State University), Middle East Librarians Asso-ciation (MELA), George Washington University, 19 April 2024, 9:00 pm CET
Why do some religious minorities, lacking any significant power and presenting no imminent threat, provoke the ire of popular groups and become targets of violent attacks? This talk focuses on the experience of Yezidis, a paradigmatic liminal minority, who were targets of genocidal attacks in the hands of the self-styled Islamic State in 2014.
Information and registration:
https://northwestern.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcpd-CuqjwtHdR7qoBkhjNmxgSkUJ0zjaGo#/registration
7. HYBRID Book Launch “Welfare as Gift: Local Charity, Politics of Redistribution, and Religion in Turkey” by Hilal Alkan, Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin, 30 April 2024, 5:00 pm
Based on an ethnography of charitable organizations in contemporary Turkey, this monograph examines the ways in which the redistributive task of poverty alleviation and welfare provision has been taken over by gift networks. It offers an in-depth analysis of the relationships between donors, volunteers, and beneficiaries, as well as an exploration of the historical institutional framework and religious imaginary that inform these orga-nizations.
Information and registration:
8. Panel on “Iran after Woman Life Freedom: Domestic and International Politics”, 16th Congress of the Italian Society for Middle East Studies (SeSaMO), Unversity of Cagliari, Sardinia, 3-5 October 2024
The panel seeks submissions that speak to the questions of state-society relations; diaspora politics; political activism and social movements; Iran’s diplomatic, security and international politics; the domestic and transnational gender politics in and of Iran; cultural production and counter-hegemonic cultural expressions; ethnicity and race politics in Iran and the Persianate world.
Deadline for abstracts: 7 May 2024. Information: https://www.sesamoitalia.it/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/31.-Rivetti-Ghaffari-Zakeri-Open-panel.pdf;
contact paola.rivetti@dcu.ie
9. Two Research Assistants (Doctoral Researchers, 75 %, 3 Years), Center for Conflict Studies, University of Marburg
Profile: MSc-degree or equivalent in social sciences; interest in quantiative methods in social sciences; experience with data collection and analysis; familiarity with Afghanistan; knowledge of at least one local language (e.g. Dari or Pashto); interest in research on protest movements and rebel governance. Disposition to own scientific qualification (e.g. a doctorate project in social sciences) is expected.
Deadline for applications: 12 May 2024. Information:
https://stellenangebote.uni-marburg.de/jobposting/9c90be611c968a3cbb8185ad64a7e19823d571480
10. Doctoral Fellowships, Orient-Institut Beirut (OIB)
The fellowships are lasting 7-10 months beginning on 1 September 2024 or shortly thereafter, specifically designed for doctoral candidates engaged in outstanding research projects in the humanities and social sciences. We invite applications across disciplines, time periods, and geographic coverage outlined in our mission statement.
Deadline for applications: 1 May 2024.
Information: https://www.orient-institut.org/support/fellowships/doctoralfellowships.html
11. Postdoctoral Fellowships, Orient-Institut Beirut (OIB)
The OIB is offering visiting fellowships normally lasting 7-10 months beginning on 1 September 2024 or shortly thereafter, to junior scholars in the early stages of the postdoctoral research, in support of excellent projects in the humanities and social sciences.
Deadline for applications: 1 May 2024.
Information: https://www.orient-institut.org/support/fellowships/postdoctoralfellowships.html
12. Visiting Assistant Professor (1 Year) in Middle Eastern Studies, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia
Qualification: PhD in History, Religious Studies, or a closely related field; College-level teaching experience, including the ability to teach courses on history of the Middle East and Islam; A strong research agenda in a related field.
Deadline for applications: 30 April 2024. Information: https://careers.pageuppeople.com/968/cw/en-us/job/529204/visiting-assistant-professor-in-middle-eastern-studies
13. Spring School of the European Network for Islamic Studies (ENIS): “Peripheral Islam: Muslims on the Geographical, Normative, Political and Religious Margins”, Université de Lausanne, 4-7 June 2024
This Spring School focusses on these results of Muslims living, working and writing in the periphery and welcomes papers that show how, where and why peripheral Muslims – varying from marginalised areas and controversial scholars to ostracised politicians and heterodox sects – have shaped this periphery and have been shaped by this periphery.
Deadline for registration: 1 May 2024.
Information: https://nisis.sites.uu.nl/2024/02/09/call-for-papers-enis-spring-school-2024/
14. Joint English-language M.A. Program in Ottoman History (2 Years), Department of History and Archaeology, University of Crete/Institute for Mediterranean Studies/FORTH
Students are required to complete: Five history courses (four in Ottoman History, and one in Medieval or Modern History); Four Turkish language courses; Four Ottoman language and palaeography courses. Furthermore, students are required to write an original M.A. thesis based on the critical analysis of Ottoman archival, epigraphic or narrative sources.
Deadline for applications: 20 May 2024. Information: https://www.history-archaeology.uoc.gr/en/graduate-studies/programs-of-post-graduate-studies/joint-english-language-m-a-program-in-ottoman/?lang=en
15. 7 Awards and Prizes by the “Ottoman and Turkish Studies (OTSA)”
Deadline for applications: 15 May 2024. Information:
https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20029790/otsa-call-submissions-2024-awards-and-prizes
16. Newsletter Promoting the Field of Middle Eastern Christianity in the Homelands and the Diaspora (from approx. 1800 until the Present)
This newsletter seeks to connect scholars working on these topics. It appears three times a year and features upcoming events, peer-reviewed publications, open positions and funding opportunities, ongoing projects.
Next deadline to submit content: 15 April 2024. Information: https://etfst.univie.ac.at/ueber-uns/team/anna-hager or to join the network, please contact Anna Hager, University of Vienna, anna-hager@univie.ac.at
17. LACIM 2024 International Conference: Grammaticalization in Anatolia-Caucasus-Iran-Mesopotamia area (LACIM2024)
Dec. 4, 2024 – Dec. 5, 2024
The second international conference organized by the European network on linguistics and languages of the Anatolia-Caucasus-Iran-Mesopotamia area (LACIM) will be held in Paris from 4 to 5 December, 2024. It will be dedicated to grammaticalization in Anatolia-Caucasus-Iran-Mesopotamia area.
LACIM is a European network of linguists engaged in research on the languages of Anatolia, the Caucasus, Iran and Mesopotamia. We are primarily interested in the interplay of contact and heritage that has shaped the region’s current linguistic ecology, through millennia of interaction. As such, our research program transcends the boundaries of the different language families that are present in the region and pursues an interdisciplinary approach.
Grammaticalization is often defined as “ … a process which turns lexemes into grammatical formatives and makes grammatical formatives still more grammatical…”. (Lehmann 2002 [1985]:ix). While grammaticalization is commonly viewed as a type of language change, its extent can vary across different studies and theoretical frameworks. Over the past four decades, research on grammaticalization has expanded to include various cross-linguistic theoretical perspectives (Lehmann 1985 [2015], Traugott and Heine 1991, Heine & Hünnemeyer 1991, Bybee et al. 1994, Newmeyer 1998, Haspelmath 1998, 1999, Bisang et al. 2004, Narrog & Heine 2011, Heiko & Heine 2018, Kuteva et al. 2019), as well as to deepen its language-specific description and analysis (Narrog & Heine 2018, Bisang & Malchukov 2020).
The primary aim of the current conference is to thoroughly explore the grammaticalization clines and sources in the languages of Anatolia-Caucasus-Iran-Mesopotamia from both diachronic and synchronic perspectives, with a particular emphasis on capturing the areal dimension as comprehensively as possible. Potential discussion topics may include, but are not limited to, the evolution of:
- Adpositions into cases,
• Verbs transforming into auxiliary verbs,
• Information structure in regard with grammaticalization,
• Differential object/subject marking,
• Preverbs,
• Determiners and pronouns,
• Periphrastic constructions,
• Relative clauses,
• Subordinate clauses, etc.
Furthermore, proposals are encouraged on broader topics within the current study of grammaticalization that offer relevant empirical/analytical insights. These might include the inferences from frequency in the realm of the empirical turn in linguistics, or the delimitation between grammaticalization and other types of language change (e.g. reanalysis, metaphoric transfer, metonymic transfer etc.).
Timelines
Submission deadline: June 10, 2024
Notification of acceptance: July 10, 2024
Conference: December 4-5, 2024
Submission instructions:
Proposals must:
• contain at most 1000 words for 30 minute talks, examples included, references excluded,
• be formatted as a PDF,
• include (1) the proposal title and (2) three or four keywords describing the topics of the paper at the top of the proposal,
• be in English or in French,
• submitted via Linguist List at the following link: https://easyabs.linguistlist.org/conference/LACIM2024/
Submissions are limited to 1 individual and 1 joint abstract per author, or 2 joint abstracts per author.
Please direct questions/concerns to lacim.conference2024@gmail.com.
Submissions open: April 2, 2024 – June 10, 2024
Abstract review period: June 11, 2024 – July 10, 2024
18. University of North Dakota – Teaching Assistant Professor, Pre-1600 World History
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=67107
Closing date: April 15, 2024
19. The Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa (ASMEA) is offering several opportunities in conjunction with its Seventeenth Annual Conference taking place in Washington, D.C. on November 2 – 4, 2024.
- Research Grant – Grants of up to $2500 will be awarded to support topics in Middle East and African Studies that deserve greater attention (Deadline April 30).
- Travel Grant – Grants of up to $750 will be awarded (Deadline April 30).
- North African Studies Travel Grant Program – Grants of up to $750 will be awarded to those whose research topics are related to the study of North Africa (Deadline April 30).
In addition, we have issued our general Call for Papers and Panels (Deadline May 15) and Call for Poster Proposals.
If you have any further questions about ASMEA, the Annual Conference, or any of our Grant Opportunities, contact info@asmeascholars.org .
URL
https://www.asmeascholars.org/upcoming-conference
20. Hybrid: UCLA Pourdavoud Lecture with Robert Rollinger
The “Persian Wars” An Alternative Perspective?
Wednesday, May 1, 2024 at 4:00pm Pacific
Royce Hall 306
Hybrid Zoom Option Available
21. Embodying Devotion in Indo-Muslim Painting, 1500-1800
Murad Khan Mumtaz
Islamic art is often misrepresented as an iconophobic tradition. As a result of this assumption, the polyvalence of figural artworks made for Hindustan’s Muslim audiences has remained hidden in plain view. By combining an art historical survey with an analysis of primary Indo-Persian literature, this series of seminars shows how figurative painting was intimately linked to a unique Indo-Muslim religious expression that had a wide circulation across South Asia.
DURATION – April 17, 18, 19, 2024
Timing: 6:30 – 8:45 pm IST
For more information and to register: https://www.jp-india.org/programmes/embodying-devotion-in-indomuslim-painting-15001800
URL
https://www.jp-india.org/programmes/embodying-devotion-in-indomuslim-painting-1…
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