Shii News – Academic Items

1.Spring 2025 Workshop of the Mediterranean Seminar: “The Multilingual Mediterranean”, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 28 February 28 – 1 March 2025

Our theme encompasses such topics as language contact zones, multilingual art forms and media, and the relationships between language and identity. Our hope is to attract contributions from scholars working on several geographical contexts and historical periods in the Mediterranean world. We also hope to encourage contributions from a diverse range of disciplinary perspectives – including the interplay and intersection of visual, musical, and material “languages” in the Mediterranean world.

Deadline for abstracts: 15 October 2024. Information: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScSZBJaWnpb6Bd1gHNyzfAMhgQbM9mJvfRLsBPPY4PPYiOM7Q/viewform

 

2. Research Fellow for Project “Encounters and Mixing between the Red Sea and Asia Regions (1800-2000s)”, Department of Historical Studies, University of Turin

Qualifications: MA or PhD in one of the following fields: History of Africa, History of Asia, History of International Relations, or other related areas. They should also have a suitable scientific/professional track record. In addition to English and possibly a second European language, knowledge of a language from the Red Sea region or Asia appropriate to the case study to be investigated within the project is also required.

Deadline for applications: 23 September 2024. Information: https://www.asaiafrica.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Contatti-e-ascendenze-miste-tra-Mar-Rosso-e-regioni-asiatiche.pdf

 

 

 

3. Research Fellow for Project “Towards a Digital Archive of Mixedness in the Red Sea (1800-2000)”, Department of Historical Studies, University of Turin

Qualifications: MA or a PhD in one of the following fields: History, Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences, Digital Humanities, Digital Engineering, or other related areas. They should also have a suitable professional track record. In addition to an excellent knowledge of English, knowledge of other European languages is required, while knowledge of non-European languages is highly valued.

Deadline for applications: 23 September 2024. Information: https://www.asaiafrica.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Verso-un-archivio-digitale-della-mixedness-nel-Mar-Rosso.pdf

 

4. Postdoctoral Researcher (80 %) for the Project “Participation in Islamic-Social-ethical Reflec-tions”, Swiss Centre for Islam and Society (SCIS), University of Fribourg/Switzerland

Requirements: Doctorate in Islamic Studies, Islamic Theological Studies, Religious Studies, Sociology or anothersocial/cultural science discipline; • Research interest in the topic of the project; • In-depth knowledge of relevant research methods; • Knowledge of German and/or French.

Deadline for applications: 30 August 2024.

Information: https://www.unifr.ch/webnews/content/159/attach/12508.pdf

 

5. ONLINE Fall Semester 2024 in Arab Studies, University of Birzeit, 16 September – 10 December 2024

Courses: 1. Colloquial Arabic. – 2. Standard Arabic. – 3. The Palestine Question. – 4. Modern & Contemporary Arab Thought.

Deadline for applications: 5 September 2024.

Information: https://pas.birzeit.edu/news-events/call-application-online-fall-semester-2024-2025

 

6. Proposals for Books in the Lexington Series on “Women, Gender, and Sexuality in the Arab World”

Topics in the series include, but not limited to, queerness in the Arab novel, political violence in the context of gender, how gender relations are affected by displacement, encampment and return, the interaction between violence and its gendered representations in cinema, and the portrayal of gender in graphic novels. The series welcomes contributions of monographs and edited volumes from various disciplines related to women, gender, and sexuality in the Arab world.

Information: https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2024/08/13/calls-for-book-proposals

 

7. Articles on “Mediterranean Food” for the New Journal “I.S. Med: Interdisciplinary Studies on the Mediterranean”

Submissions are invited on the topic of food and hospitality in and of the Mediterranean from interdisciplinary perspectives (humanities, social sciences, international law, media studies, art, and other fields of research). Any historical period of reference is welcome though we strongly encourage presenters to focus on the early modern to contemporary times.

Deadline for abstracts: 14 September 2024. Information: https://mailchi.mp/mediterraneanseminar/submissions-interdisciplinary-studies-on-the-mediterranean-mediterranean-food?e=82aeb6c61d

 

8. Chargé de mission “chercheur” (F/H) – Institut français du Proche-Orient (IFPO) – Antenne de Beyrouth – Liban

Compétence : Titulaire d’un diplôme de doctorat dans l’une des disciplines des études arabes, médiévales et modernes d’un établissement d’enseignement supérieur français, d’un autre pays de l’Union européenne. – Expérience dans le monde de la recherche en archéologie et histoire. – Bonne capacité d’organisation et d’animation des réseaux scientifiques, et capacité à conduire ses propres recherches et à rédiger les textes de présentation de ses travaux et d’expertise.

Date limite de candidature : 26 aout 2024.

Information: https://emplois.diplomatie.gouv.fr/nos-offres/54db82cf-1403-4010-9f2c-a065f55666d4

 

9. Chargé de mission “chercheur” (F/H) – Institut français d’études anatoliennes (IFEA) à Istanbul – Turquie

Date limite de candidature : 28 aout 2024

 

https://emplois.diplomatie.gouv.fr/nos-offres/93ec8c46-bf0d-4b26-9b06-06d1ad485a30

 

10.  United States Naval Academy – Assistant Professor of Middle Eastern history
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=67483

Applications will be reviewed beginning September 30, 2024, but applications will be accepted after that date and until the position is filled.

 

 

 

11. Bates College – Assistant Professor of Religious Studies (Islam)
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=67490

Close: Oct 14, 2024.

 

 

12. “Craft Geographies: Unravelling Material Cultures and Communities in South and Central Asian History,” at the 52nd Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin–Madison, on Wednesday, October 30, 2024. Please find our flyer attached here.

 Speakers:

Amanda Lanzillo (University of Chicago) :: “Listen O Muslims, Especially You Blacksmiths”: Craft knowledge and Pashtun labour migration in the early twentieth century

Ping-hsiu Alice Lin (Harvard University) :: Tacit Knowledge and Moving Artisans in South Asia

Mohit Manohar (University of Chicago) :: Formal Convergences and Iconographic Ambiguities at the Tombs of Bukhara and Mandu

Benjamin James Nourse (University of Denver) :: Tibetan Woodblock Printing: Craft, Craftspeople, Networks, and Identity in 17th and 18th-century Inner Asia

Pranav Prakash (University of Oxford) :: An Inquiry into the Transregional Imagination of Book Arts in Persianate Societies (12th–15th Centuries)

Fatima Quraishi (University of California–Riverside) :: Crafting a Vision of Kashmir: Painting and Stitching Place in the Nineteenth Century

Amanda Respess (Ohio State University) :: Beyond the River and Below the Wind: Contextualizing Early Epigraphic Ceramic Production along the Medieval Islamicate Trade Routes

Megan Eaton Robb (University of Pennsylvania) :: Respecting the Writing, Respecting the Writer: Inheritors of Calligraphy Respectability Texts in Colonial India

Respondents:

Shah Mahmoud Hanifi (James Madison University)

Benjamin Hopkins (George Madison University)

Sylvia W. Houghteling (Bryn Mawr College)

Ron Sela (Indian University Bloomington)

 If you are planning to attend the conference, please consider attending our symposium. Please contact Pranav Prakash (pranav.prakash@chch.ox.ac.uk ) and Amanda Lanzillo (amandalanzillo@uchicago.edu ) for additional information, including the full schedule.

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