Shii News – Academic Items

1. Workshop “Teaching Islam in the Contemporary World”, Shenandoah University, Leesburg, VA, 7-8 August 2024

The workshop addresses pedagogical approaches and techniques in teaching various topics in contemporary Islam. These may include, but are not limited to, teaching scriptures, Islamic law, history, social and political issues, theology, and gender. Workshop faculty will present successful teaching strategies in their respective field and lead the discussion on topics related to teaching contemporary Islam.

Application deadline: 31 May 32024.

Information: https://www.contemporaryislam.org/teachingcontemporaryislamworkshop.html

2. HYBRID “10th International Congress on Turkology”, Research Institute of Turkology, Istanbul University, 12-13 November 2024

The primary objective of the congress is to evaluate the scholarly and institutional trajectory of Turkology studies while reflecting on the past century of the institution.

Deadline for abstracts: 31 July 2024.

Information: https://turkiyat.istanbul.edu.tr/en/content/turkology-congress/about-congress

3. Postdoctoral Fellowship (1 Year) on “Primary Sources in Early Arabic Grammatical Texts”, Department of Asian and North African Studies, Ca` Foscari University of Venice

Using a text-based approach, the project will study key Arabic linguistic works from the 7th to the 10th century, considering both local Arab-Islamic frameworks and external influences. Ultimately, the project seeks to develop a new understanding of the origin and formation of the Arabic linguistic tradition, tracing origins and reception of the linguistic themes and identifying the factors that contributed to the process of language

standardization of Classical Arabic.

Deadline for applications: 21 May 2024.

Information: https://apps.unive.it/common2/file/download/assegni_ricerca/662116de21adf

4. Arab World English Journal (AWEJ) Special Issue on Challenges of ChatGPT in English Language Teaching, Learning, and Academic Publications

https://awej.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/AWEJ-ChatGPT-April-2024-Full-Issue.pdf

5. Radboud University Nijmegen (Netherlands) seeks to fill two PhD positions (4 years) in the field of Arabic Philosophy and History of Knowledge and ask you to forward this information to promising students who are in the process of completing their MA degree.

The ERC project “Avicenna Live: The Immediate Context of Avicenna’s Intellectual Formation” (short: ALIVE, more information here) investigates the intellectual development of Avicenna (Ibn Sīnā, d. 428/1037) and studies some documents of his teachers and students in relation to his philosophy. A good or very good grasp of the classical Arabic language is required, as both sub-projects are dedicated to sources that have not yet been translated and have been little researched.

Some details:

Available are two fully funded doctoral positions for a total of four years.
The monthly gross salary is €2.770 in the first year and increases annually to €3.539 in the fourth year.
The positions also include a travel allowance, which can be used to offer lectures or attend conferences and workshops.
Various academic skills are also trained during the project period, such as organising one’s own academic events.
The project and the positions are integrated into the “Center for the History of Philosophy and Science” (CHPS) and participate in its internal and external activities.
Application deadline: 31 May 2024 // envisaged starting date: 01 September 2024

For further information on the positions, please visit the website: https://www.ru.nl/en/working-at/job-opportunities/phd-candidates-history-of-philosophy-in-the-islamic-world-alive-project. A direct application can be submitted via this link: https://ru.varbi.com/en/apply/positionquick/719989.

6. Courtauld Institute of Art – Postdoctoral Fellow: Mongol Connections

https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=67172

Closing date: May 20, 2024

7. Course “Digital Analysis of Prosopographical Data”

On 16-20 September 2024, the School of Arabic Studies (EEA, CSIC) will host the course “Digital Analysis of Prosopographical Data (with the programming language R)”, organized by Mayte Penelas (EEA, CSIC) and Maxim Romanov (Universität Hamburg).

Víctor Ropero (EEA, CSIC) is the secretary of the course. It will be taught by Maxim Romanov (Universität Hamburg), with the collaboration of Covadonga Baratech Soriano (ILC, CSIC), Alicia González Martínez (Universität Hamburg) and Hamid Reza Hakimi (Universität Hamburg).

This course is designed to provide a practical introduction to the R programming language, with a specific focus on analyzing prosopographical data for historians. The primary dataset we will study in this course is the Prosopografía de ulemas de al-Andalus (PUA) Project (https://www.eea.csic.es/pua/), which contains the most extensive information on Muslim scholars from al-Andalus. It is is organized within the framework of the projects Al-Andalus and the Magrib in the Islamic East: mobility, migration and memory, AMOI-II (PID2020-116680GB-I00, funded by MICIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033) and The Evolution of Islamic Societies (c.600-1600 CE): Algorithmic Analysis into Social History (funded by the German Research Foundation [DFG] within the framework of the Emmy Noether Program).

For further information, please contact us at course.amoi-eis@eea.csic.es.

https://www.eea.csic.es/actividades-eea/course-digital-analysis-of-prosopographical-data/

https://www.csic.es/es/node/126208

With our best regards,

Maribel Fierro and Mayte Penelas

Contact Information

Maribel Fierro, Mayte Penelas, Maxim Romanov

Contact Email

maxim.romanov@uni-hamburg.de

URL

https://www.eea.csic.es/actividades-eea/course-digital-analysis-of-prosopograph…

8. Middle East Medievalists (MEM) is pleased to announce its biennial prize for the best dissertation on the medieval Middle East (roughly 500-1500 CE).

In an effort to recognize excellent doctoral research in the field, MEM will award the second biennial prize at the annual meeting of the Middle East Studies Association, which will be held virtually in November 2024.

Requirements for submission:

Dissertations must have been filed and defended between 1 June 2022 and 31 May 2024.
Applicants must be current members of Middle East Medievalists. To join MEM or renew your membership please go to: https://www.middleeastmedievalists.com/membership-form./

Submission instructions:

Please send a PDF of the dissertation to Amanda Hannoosh Steinberg at asteinberg@fas.harvard.edu.
No external nominations or letters of support are required.
Deadline for submissions is 30 June 2024.

About MEM: Middle East Medievalists (MEM) is an international professional non-profit association of scholars interested in the study of the medieval Middle East, expansively defined to include all geographies with prominent Muslim political, religious, or social presences, at some point between the rough parameters of 500-1500 CE. As part of its effort to promote scholarship and facilitate communication among its members, MEM publishes a peer-reviewed, open access journal, Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā: the Journal of the Middle East Medievalists.

9. The 2024 E-International Relations Article Award

E-International Relations invites PhD students and early career academics to prepare articles outlining novel ideas that contribute to a better understanding of international relations.
The deadline: 2nd August 2024
The prize: publication on the E-International Relations website and £1000 in book vouchers from Edinburgh University Press and other academic publishers!
Enter now: https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fddlnk.net%2Fc%2FAQjSfRCUsPMGGPmorJQFIOWq1J0BEvWHjvf1cogV2CCqhDWrvei9gYBhONzV97vnIHrtQ-U&data=05%7C02%7C%7Cd1f1f1abe72e4834036008dc6e7caf27%7C2e9f06b016694589878910a06934dc61%7C0%7C0%7C638506728994901756%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=dmz9gXHA9Zb9XwiG8Jsk%2FsoB89oGtN3jPPKMNe9QmxE%3D&reserved=0

10. The Society for the History of Discoveries is putting out its annual call for exemplary student research.

Are you an undergraduate or graduate student who has written about frontiers and expansion or other discovery-related topics? Read on!

Do you have particularly promising students who have written relevant papers or work broadly in these categories? Send them our way!

Areas of eligible research include: voyages of exploration, travel narratives, biography relevant to the history of discoveries and exploration, history of geographic discoveries, cartography, the technologies of travel, impact of travel and cultural exchange, and other aspects of geographic discovery and exploration.

Who is Eligible: Students from any part of the globe currently enrolled in a college or university degree program and who will not have received a doctoral degree prior to 1 June of the submission year.
The Research Paper: An eligible research paper shall be original and unpublished, written in English, between 3,000 and 8,000 words, plus footnotes or endnotes. Papers written for college or university class assignments are encouraged, but students may write specifically for this prize. A reasonable amount of illustrative and tabular material will be welcome, but is not required.

The awardee in the graduate student category will receive a prize of $500.00 (US) and the awardee in the undergraduate category will receive a prize of $250 (US). The Society will invite both winners to present a version of their paper at the annual meeting of the Society for the History of Discoveries. SHD will provide information about the conference to the awardee upon notification of the award, including details concerning costs and travel funding. Acceptance of the prize is not contingent upon your ability to attend the conference. Additionally, SHD will invite the awardees to submit their winning papers to the society’s peer reviewed journal, Terrae Incognitae, for which it will undergo the usual review process prior to formal acceptance for publication, of which there is no guarantee.

For more information on submission format and eligibility see https://discoveryhistory.org/student-prize

Questions? Contact Dr. Mylynka Kilgore Cardona, Committee Chair, at mylynka.cardona@tamuc.edu

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 1 June, 2024

Contact Information

Dr. Mylynka Kilgore Cardona

Contact Email

mylynka.cardona@tamuc.edu

URL

https://discoveryhistory.org/student-prize

11. Opan Access: Fallacies in the Arabic, Byzantine, Hebrew and Latin Traditions

Editors Leone Gazziero, Laurent Cesalli, Charles H. Manekin, Shahid Rahman, Tony Street, and Michele Trizio

Book series: Ad argumenta, 4