Shii News – Academic Items
1. Persianate Prose and the Making of Malay Muslim Literature
M Daneshgar
Edinburgh U Press, 2025
2. Graduate Student Paper Award of the “Association of Middle East Children and Youth Studies (AMECYS)”
The AMECYS Graduate Student Paper Prize was established in 2018 to recognize an outstanding graduate contribution to the study of children and youth in the Middle East, North Africa and their diasporic communities. Papers must not have yet been published or submitted for publication. Papers may constitute stand-alone articles or book chapters, and may be at a stage of being readied for journal, monograph, or edited book publication.
Deadline for contributions: 1 August 2025. Information: https://tinyurl.com/rbhf2vtm
3. Introduction to Pahlavi: Online Summer School of Zoroastrian Middle Persian
July 21 – August 7
The course is designed as an intensive introduction to Zoroastrian Middle Persian, and the literature written in that language, with discussions of broader linguistic, historical and cultural contexts.
https://ferdowsi.org/introduction-to-pahlavi-online-4/
After completing this course, with a total duration of 36 hours, you will be able to easily read Pahlavi texts, such as Kārnāmag ī Ardaxšēr ī Pābagān, Ardā-Wīrāz-Nāmag, Ayādgār ī Zarērān, Bundahišn, etc. on your own. Apart from learning to read in Inscriptional Pahlavi script, a broad overview of the principles of Book Pahlavi script will also be given, which will help you to continue studying the latter later on your own.
Information on the Ferdowsi School of Persian Literature is here.
About the experiences of previous students see here: Testimonials.
Ruben S. Nikoghosyan
Ferdowsi School of Persian Literature
Yerevan, Armenia
Website: www.ferdowsi.org
4. The Great Lakes Adiban Society (GLAS) Ninth Annual Workshop will be held Friday–Sunday, October 10–12, 2025, at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.
GLAS provides a regional forum for scholars of Islamicate adab to meet and share their work. We leave our parameters of language and genre intentionally open to invite as wide a collaboration as can be useful. As a group we are generally interested in the literary production of the broad complex of premodern Islamicate societies across the Eastern Hemisphere grounded in similar literary conventions. Thus, our scope focuses on past texts and traditions from the languages of Arabic, Persian, Turkish, and Urdu, as well as many others including Armenian, Dravidian languages, Kurdish, Georgian, Hebrew and Jewish languages, as well as Slavic languages.
This year, GLAS and the Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program will host a special guest. On Friday, October 10, 2025, at 16:00 , Professor Jamal Elias will kick off our workshop by discussing his forthcoming book, After Rumi: The Mevlevis and Their World (Harvard Univ. Press, 2025). This talk will be open to the public and will be followed by a reception.
For the workshop on Saturday and Sunday, October 11 and 12, 2025, GLAS welcomes works in progress that would benefit from extensive discussion and feedback, especially for graduate students and early career scholars. Please submit a proposal by filling out this google form by August 1, 2025. We expect to notify presenters by August 15.
For graduate students: we have a limited amount of funding for travel and lodging (to request funding, see the google form).
For questions and inquiries, please write Jonathan.Brack@northwestern.edu.
5. Festival of Arts, Shiraz-Persepolis 1967-1977 جشن هنر شیراز
M Afshar
Mage, 2025
For an interview with the author, produced by Pejman Akbarzadeh:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etoaEjSR7WM
6. The Society for the History of Discoveries announces its 2025 Student Prizes for best graduate and undergraduate student research papers in the history of geographic discoveries.
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Monday, June 16th, 2025.
Areas of eligible research include: voyages of exploration, travel narratives, biography relevant to the history of discoveries and exploration, history, 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. Note: Graduating high school or college students accepted into a program but who do not begin classes until fall of the submission year are NOT eligible. 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). Both winners will be invited to present a version of the paper at the annual meeting of the Society for the History of Discoveries. Information about participation in the conference will be provided 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, the awardee will be invited to submit the winning paper 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. Cardona, committee chair Mylynka.Cardona@tamuc.edu
Contact Information
Dr. Mylynka Cardona
Contact Email
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https://discoveryhistory.org/student-prize
7. North Carolina State University – Assistant Professor in the history of Arab Migration, Mobility and Diaspora
https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=68790
Closing date: Open until filled
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- June 03, 2025
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