Shii News – Academic Items
1.Short video about the life of Johns Haskell Shedd:
PHS LIVE: Presbyterian Mission in Persia and the Life of John Haskell Shedd
2. A Literary History of Medicine
The ʿUyūn al-anbāʾ fī ṭabaqāt al-aṭibbāʾ of Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿah (5 Volumes)
Editors: Emilie Savage-Smith,
Simon Swain, and
Geert Jan van Gelder
Brill 2024
Now in paperback and Open Access: Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿah’s “A Literary History of Medicine”. This is the earliest comprehensive history of medicine, containing biographies of over 400 physicians, their practices and collaborations across Islamic, Christian, and Jewish societies. These 5 volumes present the first complete and annotated translation along with a new edition of the Arabic text showing the stages in which the author composed the work. Read and download here.
3. Three Philosophical Epistles
By Sa‘īd b. Dādhurmuz (fl. 5/11)
Mazda, 2024
http://www.mazdapublishers.com/book/Three%20Philosophical%20Epistles
4. HEDAYAT ON RELIGION
Edited by:
R. Ghanoonparvar and Paul Sprachman.
With Contributions by:
Iraj Bashiri
Michael Beard
Mehdi Khorrami
Nasrin Rahimieh
Mazda, 2024
http://www.mazdapublishers.com/book/hedayat-on-religion
5. Ahmad Kasravi, SUPERSTITIONS
Translated from the Persian By:
R. Ghanoonparvar
Mazda, 2024
http://www.mazdapublishers.com/book/superstitions
6. AKU-ISMC: 15 May 2024 Virtual Open Day
Join AKU-ISMC students, staff and academics online for a Virtual Open Day at 12:00 -13:00 (London Time) to explore educational study options at AKU-ISMC (Aga Khan University’s Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations) and discover the various opportunities we have to offer.
The Aga Khan University Institute’s for the Study of Muslim Civilisations
Handyside Street
London, | N1C 4DN United Kingdom
7. Prof Sajjad Rizvi Inaugural Lecture – ‘For the love of wisdom’: Philosophy as a Way of Life in the World of Islam’
Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, Exeter, LT1 and 2 (or via MS Teams)
Monday 13th May, 16:00 – 17:00 (UK time).
Please see the details and register on the link below:
https://www.exeter.ac.uk/events/details/index.php?event=14013
8. ONLINE Webinar “Fifty Shades of Collecting: Jean Pozzi and his Islamic Collection”, with Negar Habibi
British Institute of Persian Studies 22 May, 2024, 5:00 pm UK Time
This talk aims to document the life and art collecting career of Jean Pozzi (1885-1967), a French plenipotentiary Minister in Iran (in 1935) and Egypt (1939-1942). Over the course of nearly 60 years, Pozzi collected more than 3500 art objects in his Parisian apartment, including textiles, carpets, manuscripts, album folios, ceramics, and tiles from the Islamic lands and beyond. Despite this, his career remains largely unexplored today, mainly due to the fact that his collection was widely dispersed to various museums, auction houses and heirs after his death. We examine specifically his first collection catalogue, commented on and published by Edgar Blochet in 1930. Reviewing the keen Parisian interest in “Oriental” arts and crafts, and especially their appeal to renowned French couturiers and designers, we argue that Jean Pozzi’s catalogue may be seen as one of the persuasive Persian collections of the early twentieth century, providing the forms and tones that French industries of textile design and fashion sought before World War II.
Information and registration:
https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/5517108616181/WN_MskJQ0MwSAK1rhYFOYQ-eQ#/registration
9. CfP: until 15 May 2024: Ethnolinguistic cartography (18th – 21st centuries) in comparative perspective
Ethnolinguistic maps are an important genre of modern political cartography. The genre originated in Europe at the end of the eighteenth century and subsequently experienced a tumultuous development, mainly due to the organisation of statistical censuses, the development of printing technologies, the efforts of states to territorialise (centralise), and the growth of modern nationalism. With the development of mass literacy and mass politics, ethnographic maps became an important medium of public debate. Various drawing techniques emerged to serve the political goals of national movements and the territorial aspirations of nation-states. Ethnolinguistic maps became part of school curricula, political agitation and national conflicts. They became an important argument in the post-war negotiations on new borders. They were also an important propaganda tool for movements seeking the territorial revision of ‘unjust’ borders. However, there were also efforts at inter-ethnic cooperation in cartography and innovations aimed at ‘scientific’ and neutral cartography, such as the dot method. After 1945, the genre lost much of its political potential due to the discrediting of the idea of territorial expansion in Europe, but it experienced a rebirth during post-communist ethnic conflicts (post-Soviet, post-Yugoslav countries) or ethno-religious conflicts in the Near East.
The theme of the workshop will be to analyse the development of ethnolinguistic maps in Europe and other regions of the world from different perspectives from the 18th to the 21st century. In particular, we encourage papers that address the following questions:
- How has the genre developed from its origins to the present day?
- What were the specificities of ethnolinguistic mapping in different European or non-European regions/states?
- How did ethnolinguistic mapping manifest itself during wars, peace negotiations and attempts to revise borders?
- What was the relationship between ethnolinguistic mapping and ethnic statistics?
- What was the relationship between ethnolinguistic maps and other specialised map genres (dialect maps, town plans, historical atlases)?
- How can the transfer and comparative perspectives be applied to the study of ethnolinguistic maps?
- How did ethnolinguistic maps serve the purposes of political propaganda? Do they represent specific sites of memory?
The deadline for submitting abstracts (300 words) and a short CV is 15 May 2024. Authors will then be notified of the acceptance or rejection of their proposals by 31 May 2024. Each participant will have 20 minutes for their presentation and there will be time for questions and answers at the end of the presentation. Travel within Europe and accommodation will be covered by the organisers. The organisers plan to publish selected papers either in the conference proceedings or in a thematic section of an open-access scholarly journal.
Contact Information
Jitka Močičková, Ph.D.
Institute of History of the Czech Academy of Sciences
Prosecká 809/76, 190 00 Prague 9
Czech Republic
www.hiu.cas.cz
Contact Email
URL
https://www.hiu.cas.cz/en/events/ethnolinguistic-cartography-18th-21st-centurie…
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- May 11, 2024
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