Shii News – Academic Items
1.Hajar Hussaini Wins Mo Habib Translation Prize in Persian Poetry
M Marsden
Afghanistan, 7.1, 2024
3. Journal of Cultural Analytics
Mohamed, Eid. “The Potential and Limits of Arabic Digital Humanities.” Journal of Cultural Analytics, vol. 9, no. 3, June 2024, https://doi.org/10.22148/001c.116818.
4. ASPS/JPS Graduate Student Prize
The Association for the Study of Persianate Societies announces the inauguration of a biennial Graduate Student Prize in order to encourage and reward scholarship about the broader Persianate world by promising graduate student members of ASPS. Interested applicants are invited to submit original and unpublished work to the Journal of Persianate Studies by 09 September 2024.
Based on creativity of topic and source materials, originality of analysis, and overall scholastic contributions, an ASPS prize committee will select a winner, who will be announced at the upcoming ASPS virtual graduate student conference (23 October 2024). The winning paper will be published in the Journal of Persianate Studies after any revision that may be required by the editorial office. In addition, the winner will be invited to present their paper at our biennial conference to be held in Tashkent in August 2025 and will receive funding from ASPS for some of the cost of attending that conference. Runners-up may also be considered for publication in JPS.
The Journal of Persianate Studies is a peer-reviewed publication of the Association for the Study of Persianate Societies. The journal publishes articles on the culture and civilization of the geographical area where Persian has historically been the dominant language or a major cultural force, encompassing Iran, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan, as well as the Caucasus, Central Asia, the Indian Subcontinent, and parts of the former Ottoman Empire.
Eligibility: graduate students who, at time of submission, are members of ASPS and have not received their doctorate at the time of submission, and have also submitted an abstract to the 2024 ASPS online graduate conference.
Application procedure: Paper submissions must fall within the purview of JPS and must be original and previously unpublished; they must also follow all regular JPS style and citation guidelines, found online at: https://brill.com/fileasset/downloads_products/Author_Instructions/JPS.pdf. Prize applicants should submit their papers online through Editorial Manager (https://www.editorialmanager.com/JPSBRILL), selecting ‘Graduate Student Prize’ as the article type. By submitting a paper, applicants acknowledge intent to participate in the ASPS/JPS Graduate Student Prize and waive the right to withdraw their paper from publication, if selected.
5. Sugar and the Indian Ocean World
Trade and Consumption in the Eighteenth-Century Persian Gulf
N Daito
Bloomsbury, 2024
6. BRISMES Student Prize
From Monday 1 July, we will be inviting submissions for the 2024 BRISMES Conference Student Paper Prize. Established in 2021, this prize aims to support BRISMES student members in the development of peer-reviewed work. If you registered as a student and are presenting a paper at the conference, please do consider submitting your paper and if you are chairing or attending a panel with student presenters, please encourage them to apply for this prize!
The prize winner will receive £300 and will be mentored through a review process at the British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (BJMES) by a senior member of the BRISMES academic community. Such a mentor will be identified on the basis of the disciplinary field and topic of the awarded conference paper. In addition, the desk review process will be skipped and the journal will commit to sending the paper directly to external reviewers for the final decision about publication. The deadline for submissions will be 5pm on Monday, 22 July 2024.
https://www.brismes.ac.uk/awards/brismes-conference-student-paper-prize
7. The second and third issues of Volume 51 of the British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (BJMES) are now available online on the Taylor & Francis website.
Volume 51, Issue 2 is a special issue on Propagandas, cultural production, and negotiating ideology in Iran (Guest editors: Goulia Ghardashkhani, Olmo Gölz and Kevin L. Schwartz).
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cbjm20/51/2
8. Departmental Lecturer in Islamic Art and Architecture
University of Oxford
The Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies aims to appoint a Departmental Lecturer (DL) in Islamic Art and Architecture, for twelve months to cover the teaching and certain other duties of a permanent post-holder during a period of research leave. (You must be able to start by 1st January 2025) This position is a great opportunity for a suitably qualified scholar to develop their career through research, teaching and collaborative work in Islamic Art and Architecture at Oxford.
Deadline | 10 July 2024
More information
9. Lecturer (Teaching) in Political Theory
SOAS University of London
The Department of Politics and International Studies is pleased to invite applications for a Lectureship (Teaching) focused on Political Theory for the academic year 2024-2025 (0.5FTE). The Department is known for its combination of both academic and professional training in politics and international relations with a focus on the politics and international relations of the Global South (Asia, Africa, and the Middle East).
Deadline | 15 July 2024
More information
10. Learn Kurdish for free with the Institute for Middle East Studies at GW
The Institute for Middle East Studies at George Washington University invites you to participate in our Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) in Sorani Kurdish. This free beginner online course, led by Dr. Benjamin Priest, is designed to build fundamental conversational skills, and provide an introduction to the Kurdish writing system, culture and history. Starting in August 2024, classes will be held on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
11. Reinterpreting History and Memory: Contemporary art of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
Conference | British Academy | 12-13 October 2024
This British Academy international conference will explore how history and memory is reflected through contemporary art in the MENA region, and art’s association with broader social and intellectual practices.
12. Hudood: Rethinking Boundaries
Symposium | SOAS Middle East Institute | 12 July 2024
Hudood: Rethinking Boundaries introduces contemporary art from the Barjeel Art 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 Southwest Asia and North Africa (SWANA) region.
13. Foreign Policy Working Group (FPWG) Third Annual Conference
Conference | BISA FPWG | Gulf Research Centre Cambridge | 8 July 2024
The Foreign Policy Working Group’s mini-conference is titled ‘Critical Reflections on Contemporary Foreign Policy Analysis’ and is hosted by the Gulf Research Centre Cambridge. The conference is coordinated and led by FPWG’s co-convenors, Dr Marianna Charountaki (University of Lincoln) and Dr Sharad Joshi (Middlebury Institution of International Studies).
14. “Sex in Translation” International Conference, 4th-5th July 2024, QMUL
The programme for an international conference on “Sex in Translation” on 4th-5th July 2024, hosted by Queen Mary University of London and supported by the BCLA, is available on the conference page here,* where those interested in attending can also register.
The conference is free, but exclusively in-person, and only registered attendees will be admitted onto campus.
*If the link doesn’t work, please copy and paste the following: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sex-in-translation-tickets-925804314627?aff=oddtdtcreator
15. Hajj Across Empires: Pilgrimage and Political Culture after the Mughals, 1739–1857
R Choudhury
Cambridge, 2024
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/hajj-across-empires/8D3901BC94DD6D26BB34B7DFC8E5FDF0
16. Hybrid event: July 9-10 – International Workshop “Judaeo-Iranian Intellectual Landscapes and Beyond”
International Workshop “Judaeo-Iranian Intellectual Landscapes and Beyond: Cultural History of Jewish Communities Across the Centuries”.
The Workshop will take place on July 9-10, 2024, at the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies (IIAS), The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, both in person and via Zoom.
To join, please register for either in person or online attendance via the link in the attached announcement or here: https://iias.huji.ac.il/RG_Conference_Jud%C3%A6o-Iranian_Registration
Tuesday, July 9
10:30 | Gathering
10:45 | Greetings
Prof. Yitzhak Hen, Director, IIAS
Dr. Julia Rubanovich (Hebrew University and IIAS) Prof. Ludwig Paul (University of Hamburg and IIAS)
Session I | 11:00-12:30
Chair: Dennis Halft (University of Trier and IIAS) Shai Secunda (Bard College)
One Who Sold his Slave to a Frahang (b. Gittin 44a) Simcha Gross (University of Pennsylvania and IIAS)
Shapur’s Serpent: The Shifting Cultural Contexts of a Rabbinic Tale
Session II | 13:45 – 16:00
Chair: Donna Shalev (Hebrew University) Ali B. Langroudi (University of Trier)
Judæo-Persian Torah Scribes: An Introduction
*Zoom
Dennis Halft (University of Trier and IIAS)
Persian Bible Translations Leaving the “Literary Ghetto” (W. Fischel) of Judæo-Persian
Jason Sion Mokhtarian (Cornell University) *Zoom
Judæo-Persian Translations of the Bible in the Vecchietti Collection at the Bibliothèque nationale de France
Wednesday, July 10
Session III | 9:30 – 11:00
Chair: Simcha Gross (University of Pennsylvania and IIAS) Avigail Manekin-Bamberger (Hebrew University)
Demons and Jewish Society in Sasanian Babylonia
Yakir Paz (Hebrew University) and Ofir Haim (Mandel Scholion Research Center, Hebrew University)
The Reception of Midrashic Literature among Iranian Jews in the First Centuries of Islam
Coffee
Session IV | 11:15 – 12:45
Chair: Vera B. Moreen (Independent Scholar and IIAS)
Julia Rubanovich (Hebrew University and IIAS)
The Tale of Rebecca and the Servant of Abraham in Shāhīn’s Epic Rendition of the Book of Genesis
Ludwig Paul (University of Hamburg and IIAS)
Understanding the Sefer ha-Melitza, a Hebrew-Persian Dictionary of the 14th Century, in its Various Contexts
Lunch
Session V | 14:00 – 16:15
Chair: Ofir Haim (Mandel Scholion Research Center, Hebrew University) David Gilinsky (University of Hamburg) *Zoom
Manuscripts of Shāhīn’s Mūsā-nāma and their Reception
Oded Zinger (Hebrew University)
Schmoozing Outside of Court? Informal Relations between Jews and Qadis in Medieval Egypt
Vera B. Moreen (Independent Scholar and IIAS)
The Muslim and Sufi Vocabulary of Darvīsh-i Sabzavārī (16th century)
Coffee
Session VI | 16:30 – 18:00
Chair: David Yeroushalmi (Tel Aviv University)
Ariane Sadjed (Institute of Iranian Studies, Austrian Academy of Sciences) The Everyday Lives of Judæo-Persian: Locality and Interconnection between Afghanistan, Iran and Central Asia
Shir Kochavi (Bar-Ilan University) Collecting Memories of North African Jewish Life
Concluding Remarks
17. Conference “First European Round Table on Modern Persian Literature”, Iranian Studies, Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, 4-7 July 2024
The First European Round Table on Modern Persian Literature is jointly organised by the Iranian Studies Department in Bamberg and CERMOM/INALCO in Paris. This is also the 2024 Mid-Term Conference of the Societas Iranologica Europaea. We aim to address the study and reception of modern and contemporary Persian literature across all genres from a European perspective.
Information and program: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/iranistik/aktuelles/artikel/first-european-round-table-of-modern-persian-literature/
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