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1.BRAIS Prize 2024 Winner Announcement + 2025 Call now open!
The British Association for Islamic Studies is delighted to announce that the winner of the 2024 BRAIS Prize in the Study of Islam and the Muslim World is:
Dr Raashid S. Goyal (Cornell University) for his thesis entitled ‘War and Law in the First Islamic Polity: Arabness, Emigration, and the Dhimma of God and His Messenger’.
Very many congratulations to Dr Goyal who has kindly provided an abstract of his thesis which you can read here: https://www.brais.ac.uk/prize/brais-prize-2024
We are also excited to announce that the 2025 BRAIS Prize in the Study of Islam and the Muslim World is now open for submissions. The submission deadline is 5pm GMT on Friday 24 January 2025. Full details about the submission process, including all rules and regulations, can be found here: https://www.brais.ac.uk/prize/brais-prise-2025-call-for-submissions
This international prize is awarded annually to one outstanding doctoral thesis. English-language submissions on any aspect of the academic study of Islam and the Muslim world, past and present, including Muslim-minority societies are accepted.
2. Zoom: Dr. Joanna Bocheńska will present, “Between Whisper and Revolution: Kurdish Heritage, Art and Literature”. 6.11.24.
Dr. Bocheńska is an Associate Professor and Director of the Section of Kurdish Studies at the Department of Iranian Studies at Jagiellonian University. Between 2020 to 2024, she was the principal investigator of two research projects entitled Citizens of the World: Modern Kurdish Literature and Heritagisation as a Means for Transforming and Revitalising the Kurdish Language and the Oral Tradition, and Activism and Its Moral and Cultural Foundation: Alternative Citizenship and Women’s Roles in Kurdistan and the Diaspora.
𝐒𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐫 𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬: Between Whisper and Revolution: Kurdish Heritage, Art and Literature
𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐧: 12:00 pm Central /1 pm Eastern, Wednesday, 6 November
𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞: Zoom, https://zoom.us/j/92336051781?pwd=OL4HZsu8SBexwIg46ezoEmfL4qynGW.1
See also: https://www.zahrainstitute.org/.
3. Postdoctoral Research Associate (Mapping Connections)
University of Exeter
The successful applicant will be part of the “Mapping Connections: China and Contemporary Development in the Middle East” project, funded by Carnegie Corporation of New York and led by Professor Adam Hanieh at the Institute for Arab and Islamic Studies (IAIS).
Deadline | 7 November 2024
4. Call for Submissions | Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial Paper Prize for Early Career Scholars
Prize | British International Studies Association (BISA)
The prize is aimed at supporting CPD’s early career members in the development of peer-reviewed work, while at the same time carving out space in International Studies to engage with the question of empire and coloniality as fundamental to the discipline.
Deadline | 18 November 2024
5. Call for Papers | From Past and Present to Future: Finding a Positive Path between Ideals and Possibilities in Yemen
Workshop | LSE Middle East Centre
What does Yemen’s political, economic and social history and experience, since unification and before, tell us about what is realistic for the coming decade and beyond? This workshop will provide an opportunity to develop answers to this question through exploring topics within four main themes: peace, governance, economy and society.
Deadline | 2 December 2024
6. Inperson: “AFRICAN INTELLECTUALS IN MEDIEVAL ASIA: DEBATES AND CIRCULATIONS ACROSS THE INDIAN OCEAN”
Mahmood Kooria, University of Edinburgh
Silsila NYU Lecture, Wednesday, November 6th, 6:30pm-8:30pm
In person only, Room 222, 20 Cooper Square, NY 10003
Registration for all attendees is essential. Due to current university security restrictions those who have not pre-registered will not be admitted.
In accordance with university regulations, visitors must show a valid government-issued photo ID (children under 18 can provide non-government identification).
Please use the following link to rsvp as an in-person attendee:
https://forms.gle/9gLpFDsTZX8ZhexD7
For full details please visit the Silsila website:
7. Assistant Professor in Global Architecture and/or Urbanism Post 1700 CE
New York University: NYU – NY: Arts and Science (A&S): Art History
Deadline: Nov 29, 2024 at 11:59 PM Eastern Time
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=68101
The Department of Art History and its Urban Design and Architectural Studies program (URDS) at New York University seeks applications for a full-time, tenure-track, Assistant Professor in Global Architecture and/or Urbanism Post 1700 CE.
We hope to attract candidates who can contribute to our program’s interdisciplinary, analytic approach to urban design and architecture and our emphasis on student development. We invite applications from candidates working in any of the following geographical areas: Africa, Australasia, Central and South America and the Caribbean, Eastern Europe, East Asia, Southeast Asia, and West Asia.
We encourage applications from candidates with enthusiasm and proven success or demonstrated potential for research, teaching, student mentoring, and program development. Candidates should be prepared to teach four courses each academic year: three undergraduate courses in the Department of Art History, consisting of a mix of core curriculum courses, departmental surveys, advanced courses, and seminars in the candidate’s area(s) of expertise and research; and one graduate course at the Institute of Fine Arts. The candidate will supervise undergraduate independent studies and honors theses, and master’s and doctoral theses.
Candidates must have completed the Ph.D. by September 1, 2025. Successful candidates will demonstrate excellence in scholarship and teaching.
The appointment will begin on September 1, 2025, subject to budgetary and administrative approval.
Full details are available on Interfolio: https://apply.interfolio.com/157032
8. British Institute of Persian Studies Hybrid Event:
‘Examining the origins of Iran’s political and cultural ties with Africa under Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi’
21 November 2024, 5:45PM UK time
with Robert Steele
BIPS AGM Lecture and Ann Lambton Lecture 2024
This talk explores the development of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi’s Africa policy in the final three decades of his reign, examining both geopolitical developments in the Middle East that compelled Iran to look to Africa, and the specific Iranian context.
To register for inperson/online:
https://www.bips.ac.uk/event/political-ties-with-africa/
9. Please join us in person or online for the symposium “Reinventing Islamic Architecture in the 20th and 21st Centuries,” hosted by the University of Wisconsin-Madison. 7-8 November, 2024
The symposium investigates the phenomenon of 20th- and 21st-century architecture making references to premodern Islamic monuments and built environments. The modern and contemporary resurrection or reinvention of “classical” Islamic form can serve diverse functions and contexts. It can proclaim connections to a glorious imperial past; craft new national identities through architectural revivals; recall a nostalgic homeland for diasporic communities; or even incorporate Orientalist tropes to convey luxurious consumption or cosmopolitan sophistication. Within the discipline of Islamic art history, scholars have debated the logical terminus for the field’s timeline, with traditional narratives ending before the rise of European colonialism. Recent studies have expanded the consideration of art and architecture beyond this limited framework, but scholars are only beginning to question how the forms and narratives of pre-colonial Islamic art history inform post-colonial architectural practice.
In this symposium, UW-Madison welcomes 11 scholars from the U.S. and abroad. The talks and papers are drawn from transnational, cross-cultural contexts and feature examples from a wide range of geographies such as the Middle East, North Africa, the Americas, Europe, and South Asia. The topics are wide ranging but are united in exploring how scholarly narratives of pre-colonial Islamic art history have shaped these kinds of projects. In doing so, we seek to offer new insights into the connection between modern/contemporary architecture and the historiography of Islamic art.
Online registration is here: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUuceyorjkrH9C34sdOpVvx_qJI-VBNi1TC#/registration
10. HYBRID Lecture “Listening to the Qur’an” by Kristina Nelson (University of California), Centre d’études et de documentation économiques, juridiques et sociales (CEDEJ), Cairo, 3 November 2024, 10:30 am CET
Reciters of the Egyptian melodic tradition of recitation, mujawwad, aim to use their artistry to emotionally and spirit-ually engage listeners in the sonic experience, and they draw on elements of the Arabic music system. Islamic scholars are careful to eschew the term “music” in connection with the Qur’anic text precisely because the text itself is unique, sui generis.
Information and registration:
https://cedej-eg.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Music-and-sound-seminar-series-1-Kristina-Nelson.pdf
11. HYBRID Book Introduction “Why Islamists Go Green: Politics, Religion, and the Environment” by Dr Emmanuel Karagiannis, Institute of Middle Eastern Studies, King’s College London, 4 November 2024, 18:00 – 19:30 GMT
The environmental policies and approaches of Islamist groups have received scant scholarly attention. In the era of globalisation, however, more and more Islamists talk about planting trees, protecting water supplies, and reducing pollution. The presentation focuses on the emergence of Islamist environmentalism as a new phenomenon that requires a scientific investigation.
Information and registration: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/events/why-and-how-islamists-want-to-protect-the-environment
12. HYBRID Lecture “The Emirates’ Efforts to Promote Religious Tolerance, and Moderate Islam Within and Beyond the Middle East” by Dr Ali Al Nuaimi (Chairman of the International Steering Board of Hedayah, Doha), National University of Singapore, 7 November 2024, 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm SGT
Information and registration:
https://mesana.org/resources-and-opportunities/2024/10/28/s-r-nathan-distinguished-lecture-2024
13. International Conference “Perspectives on the Development of Islamic Law: Philosophy of Law & Islamic Medical Ethics”, Berlin Institute for Islamic Theology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 8. – 9. November 2024
Information and programme:
14. Conference “Metempsychosis in Islam II: Community Constructions”, Aix-Marseille Université, 14-16 November 2024
Programme and abstracts:
https://iismm.hypotheses.org/files/2024/10/2024-11-14_16_LIVRET-METEMPSYCOSE-LAUSANNE-AIX-vl.pdf (pages 21-31)
15. University Assistant Predoctoral in Turkish Studies (4 Years), University of Vienna
Qualification: MA or Diploma in Turkish Studies (Ottoman History and Culture) or a related discipline. – Interest in DH and Ottoman Studies, Armeno-Turkish Texts, Cultural Heritage, Environmental History. – Excellent knowledge of Turkish and knowledge of Ottoman Turkish. – Excellent command of written and spoken English (C1).
Deadline for application: 29 November 2024.
Information: https://jobs.univie.ac.at/job/University-assistant-predoctoral/1137021301/
16. Lecturer or Assistant Teaching Professor of Arabic, Pennsylvania State University
Requirements include native or near-native fluency in English and Arabic, a Master’s degree or its equivalent in Arabic or a related field (Ph.D. preferred) by the appointment date, and relevant teaching experience. Candidates who have experience with communicative and standards-based methodologies, program-building experience such as supervision or curriculum development, etc.
Deadline for application: 18 November 2024. Information: https://apptrkr.com/5740511
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