Shii News – Academic Items
1.Warburg Institute Short Courses – Autumn 2025
THE WARBURG INSTITUTE
School of Advanced Study | University of London
The Warburg Institute is one of the world’s leading centres for studying the interaction of ideas, images and society. It is dedicated to the survival and transmission of culture across time and space, with special emphasis on the afterlife of antiquity. Throughout the year we offer a wide range of Short Courses and Research Training in key areas of knowledge and skills. Courses are generally open to students at all levels, researchers, and the public. NB: some pre-requisites may apply.
Our short courses for the Autumn Term 2025 are currently open for booking:
Crossing the world without an interpreter: Arabic studies in England 1550-1640
3 – 7 November 2025, 11.00am – 1.00pm GMT | Warburg Institute
Examining the origins and manifestations of the great flourishing of interest in England in the study of Arabic from the mid-16th to mid-17th centuries.
Booking: https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/events/arabic-studies-england-in-1550-1640-2025
The Representation of African People in Early Modern European Art & Culture
13 November – 11 December 2025, 2.00pm – 3.30pm GMT | Online via Zoom
An introduction to the representation of African people in the art and culture of early modern Europe. Drawing on the resources of the Image of the Black archive.
Booking: https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/events/representation-of-african-people-2025
Black Atlas in the Warburg Archives
25 – 27 November 2025, 5.00pm – 7.00pm GMT | Warburg Institute
Examining resources for studying Africa and the Americas and their diasporas at the Warburg Institute, with focus on the Image of the Black archive and creative responses to controversial collections material and marginalised histories by artists associated with the Warburg.
Booking: https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/events/black-atlas-warburg-archives
Visual History of European Alchemy
15 – 19 December 2025, 2.00pm – 4.00pm GMT | Online via Zoom
This course opens a window onto the development of European visual culture and the history of science by tracing the evolution of alchemy and its artefacts. Alongside historical developments, we will examine how alchemy shaped art, intellectual traditions, and symbolic thinking.
Booking: https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/events/visual-history-of-european-alchemy-2025
2. Textile History Symposium at CUNY Graduate Center, NYC (9 am-5 pm, Nov. 13, 2025)
Textile as Object: Centering Cloth in Interdisciplinary Approaches to Textile History
This full day symposium showcases research that takes materially focused methodologies to textile history, investigating new approaches to explore what engagement with the material enables, and to demonstrate what the close looking of the textile historian can reveal. Studies include Byzantium, Asia and the Islamic World, and Spain; as well as the role of textiles in museums today. Livestreamed and in-person at CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY. Registration and Event page: https://www.gc.cuny.edu/events/textile-object-centering-cloth-interdisciplinary-approaches-textile-history
Symposium co-organizers: Nazanin Hedayat Munroe, Amanda Phillips, Eiren Shea, Rachel Silberstein, and Elizabeth Dospěl Williams
Hosted by the CUNY Academy for Humanities and Sciences
Contact Email
URL
https://www.gc.cuny.edu/events/textile-object-centering-cloth-interdisciplinary…
3. Hybrid Seminar:
Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Edinburgh,
Our next (IMES) Research Seminar will be held on Monday, 3 November at 5:15 in room LG.08, 40 George Square Lower.
Our speaker will be Prof Nacim Pak-Shiraz (IMES), University of Edinburgh, who will speak on
Staging Masculinity: Hegemony, and Patriarchy in 1990s Iranian Popular Cinema
This talk examines the varied constructions of masculinity through the lens of popular commercial cinema in the 1990s Iran. It focuses on two of the decade’s highest-grossing films, released in 1991 and 1999, respectively. By analyzing them, this study examines how dominant and contested models of masculinity were constructed and circulated through mainstream cinema during a decade marked by cultural and political transformation.
The sessions will be hybrid. For those who wish to join us online, please email Anthony.Gorman@ed.ac.uk, who will send you a link on the day of the seminar.For further details see https://llc.ed.ac.uk/islamic-and-middle-eastern-studies/imes-seminar-series-251103
4. Séminaire “L’Afghanistan à travers les âges” – 2e séance mercredi 5 novembre 18h-19h30
Chères et chers collègues,
Chères étudiantes, chers étudiants,
Nous avons le plaisir de vous convier à la deuxième séance du séminaire “L’Afghanistan à travers les âges”, qui se tiendra mercredi 5 novembre 2025, 18h-19h30, en salle 4.21 à l’INaLCO (65 rue des Grands Moulins, Paris XIII, 4e étage).
Nous sommes heureux d’accueillir Mme. Alya Karame, Orient-Institut Beirut, pour une conférence intitulée : The Qur’ans of the Ghaznavids and Ghurids: New Genres (en anglais).
Résumé:
The understudied corpus of the Ghaznavid and Ghurid Qur’ans (c. eleventh–twelfth centuries CE) illustrates the shaping of regional visual trends in medieval eastern Iran (at the centre of which is present-day Afghanistan) out of diachronic and synchronic multidirectional movement within a medieval landscape that was continuously in flux. These manuscripts were innovatively designed presenting us with new genres of Qur’ans, employing new scripts on the newly adopted material, paper. Many elements in them tell us stories about the people who commissioned them, made them, and used them. They also inform of the ways in which they were used and their roles, up until our day. Deemed “peripheral” (the lands of provincial rule), they were, in fact, models that challenged the artistic agency of t raditional political capitals (the lands of dominant dynastic rule) from which artistic excellency and a pure visual language is said to have spread.
Orientations bibliographiques:
- Flood, Finbarr Barry. ‘Islamic Identities and Islamic Art: Inscribing the Qur’an in Twelfth-century Afghanistan’ in Elizabeth Cropper (ed.). Dialogues in Art History, from Mesopotamian to Modern: Readings for a New Century. Washington DC: National Gallery of Art, 2009, p. 91–118.
- Karame, Alya. ‘Ghaznavid Imperial Qur’an Manuscripts: The Shaping of a Local Style’ in Simon Rettig, Sana Mirza (eds.). The Word Illuminated: Form and Function of Qur’anic Manuscripts from the Seventh to Seventeenth Centuries. Washington DC: Smithsonian Scholarly Press, 2023, p. 27–53.
Vous trouverez l’intégralité du programme 2025-2026 du séminaire mensuel de recherche “L’Afghanistan à travers les âges” en ligne sur le site du CeRMI: L’Afghanistan à travers les âges – Centre de recherche sur le monde iranien
5. Grabar Travel Grant – Deadline: December 15, 2025
This competition is open to graduate students (doctoral candidates) who have been invited or accepted as participants in a scholarly conference or other professional meeting for the purpose of presenting papers, chairing sessions, or moderating discussions.
The maximum amount of the award is $1,000 USD.
Applicants must be HIAA members in good standing at the time of application. Grabar Travel Grants must be used within 12 months of the award date.
Applications must include the following five components and be submitted in a single PDF to the Grabar Travel Committee Chair (grabar.hiaa@gmail.com) by December 15:
- Application cover sheet, available here
- A cover letter explaining the applicant’s purpose in participating in the conference, the expected benefits of participation, and an itemized travel budget
- Curriculum vitae
- Letter of acceptance from the conference/session organizer(s)
- Abstract of the paper to be presented
In addition, a letter of recommendation from the applicant’s primary supervisor should be sent directly to the Grabar Travel Committee Chair (grabar.hiaa@gmail.com) by the deadline.
Applicants from outside the United States are responsible for meeting the requirements for and obtaining any visas necessary for visits to or residence and research in the United States. Upon request, HIAA will supply documentation of the grant and/or fellowship award, the dates of the award, and financial support.
For further details and to apply, please visit: https://www.historiansofislamicart.org/opportunities/hiaa-prizes/grabar-grants-and-fellowships
6. Grabar Post-doctoral Fellowship – Deadline: December 15, 202
The Grabar Post-doctoral Fellowship is intended to support post-doctoral scholars at an early stage of their careers in advancing their research. Fellowship funds may be used in one of two ways:
- To spend up to two months in residence as a visiting professor or fellow/research scholar at a university, museum, research institute, or similar institution outside their usual country of residence or employment.
- To support additional research to aid in preparing the dissertation for publication.
Applicants should have completed their Ph.D. within the last five years or have submitted their dissertations by the start of the fellowship.
The Grabar Post-doctoral Fellowship will provide up to $2000 US per month, for a maximum of two months. An additional $1000 may be requested for travel or supplies.
All materials should be submitted by email to the chair of the Grabar post-doctoral fellowship committee chair (grabar.hiaa@gmail.com) by December 15, 2025. Files exceeding 25 Mb should be sent via WeTransfer.
For further details and to apply, please visit: https://www.historiansofislamicart.org/opportunities/hiaa-prizes/grabar-grants-and-fellowships
7. The Margaret B. Ševčenko Prize in Islamic Art and Culture – Deadline: December 15, 2025
Every year, the Historians of Islamic Art Association (HIAA) sponsors a competition and awards the Margaret B. Ševčenko Prize for the best unpublished essay written by a junior scholar (pre-dissertation graduate student to three years after the Ph.D. degree) on any aspect of Islamic visual culture. This competition is open to HIAA members only. The Ševčenko Prize recipient receives an award of $500 and a citation, generally presented at HIAA’s annual business meeting. The Prize is named in memory of Margaret Bentley Ševčenko, the first and long-serving Managing Editor of Muqarnas, a journal devoted to the visual culture of the Islamic world sponsored by the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard and MIT. The winning essay will be considered for publication by the Muqarnas Editorial Board.
Submissions must include the paper in both Word and PDF format, and a separate sheet with the author’s contact information (address, telephone number, and email address). Papers should not exceed 10,000 words in length (including footnotes) and can be accompanied by up to 15 low-res illustrations.
Please note that submissions cannot be in press or under review with any publisher.
A letter of recommendation for the paper should be sent separately by the author’s adviser or referee.
All materials should be submitted by email to the Ševčenko committee chair (sevcenko.hiaa@gmail.com) by December 15, 2025. Files exceeding 25 Mb should be sent via WeTransfer.
For further details, please visit: https://www.historiansofislamicart.org/opportunities/hiaa-prizes/the-margaret-evenko-prize-in-islamic-art-and-culture/
8. Fellowships – National Museum of Asian Art, Ebrahimi Fellowship for Persian Art, Apply by February 2, 2026
The Ebrahimi Fellowship for Persian Art promotes excellence in research and publication on Persian art from the ancient to the contemporary period. Fellowships support research at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art in Washington, DC. Research proposals are evaluated in terms of merit, originality, methodology, and potential for significant publication that will advance scholarly and public understanding of Persian visual arts. Interdisciplinary proposals with a primary focus on Iranian visual arts will be considered.
The Ebrahimi Fellowship is intended to provide an environment conducive to research, writing, and collegial discourse. Fellows are expected to devote themselves full-time to the proposed project and to participate in the museum’s scholarly community and programs.
Scholars of all nationalities are welcome to apply. Meeting the requirements and obtaining the required visas for residence and research in the United States are the responsibilities of the applicant. If necessary, the Smithsonian will review the individual for participation in an Exchange Visitor Program and will support the individual, if eligible, in their application for a J-1 visa.
Doctoral candidates, early career scholars, and senior scholars are all encouraged to apply.
For more information, visit https://asia.si.edu/about/jobs-opportunities/ebrahimi-fellowship-for-persian-art/.
URL
https://asia.si.edu/about/jobs-opportunities/ebrahimi-fellowship-for-persian-ar…
9. The UC Berkeley South Asia Art & Architecture Dissertation Prize
The South Asia Art Initiative at UC Berkeley invites submissions of doctoral dissertations for the annual UC Berkeley South Asia Art & Architecture Dissertation Prize. The prize will be awarded to an outstanding doctoral dissertation on the art, architecture, or visual cultures of South Asia and its diasporas from any discipline in the arts, humanities, or social sciences. The dissertation may focus on any time period from the prehistoric to the contemporary. The prize comes with a $1,500 award. Ph.D. dissertations submitted for consideration must have been filed between September 2, 2024 and September 1, 2025 at an accredited university in North America or Europe. The submission package must include the following:
- A pdf abstract (< 1000 words)
- A pdf curriculum vitae (please include your contact information)
- A pdf copy of the dissertation
- A nomination letter from the chair of the department or the chair of the dissertation committee must accompany the application package. This letter should confirm that the application fulfills all eligibility requirements, and include the official dissertation submission date.
The 2025 Prize Committee: Sugata Ray (Chair, University of California, Berkeley), Rebecca M. Brown (Johns Hopkins University), Yuthika Sharma (Northwestern University), and Nachiket Chanchani (University of Michigan).
The UC Berkeley South Asia Artist Prize
The South Asia Art Initiative at UC Berkeley invites submissions from Master of Fine Arts (MFA) students for the annual UC Berkeley South Asia Artist Prize. The prize will be awarded for an outstanding body of work by an artist of the South Asian diaspora or by those whose work addresses the politics and cultures of South Asia. Applicants must have filed their Master of Fine Arts (MFA) degree between September 2, 2023 and September 1, 2024 at an accredited school in North America or Europe. The submission package must include the following, and with each file size a maximum of 15MB:
- A pdf Artist Statement (< 1000 words)
- A pdf curriculum vitae (please include your contact information)
- 20 images in a single pdf file and/or
- Links (and password) to Vimeo for up to 15 minutes of time-based work
- A confidential letter of support from a faculty member
The 2025 Prize Committee: Asma Kazmi (Chair, University of California, Berkeley), Shiben Banerji (University of California, Berkeley), Al-An deSouza (University of California, Berkeley), Nidhi Gandhi (San José Museum of Art), and Padma Maitland (Asian Art Museum).
DEADLINE: The submission package must be in English and submitted via email to Puneeta Kala <pkala@berkeley.edu> by January 10, 2026. Late submissions will not be accepted. The result for the 2025 prize recipient will be announced on the South Asia Art Initiative website on March 14, 2026. The winner will give a talk via Zoom on Wed, April 16, 2026 at 9 am PST.
All inquiries regarding the prizes should be directed to Puneeta Kala <pkala@berkeley.edu> at the Institute for South Asia Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Contact Information
Puneeta Kala, Institute for South Asia Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Contact Email
URL
https://southasia.berkeley.edu/art-awards
10. Call for Contributions – Digital Humanities in Middle East Studies for RoMES Special Issue
TheReview of Middle East Studies(RoMES) invites contributions to an upcoming special issue on Digital Humanities in Middle East Studies. In light of the growing impact of technology on the study of language, history, and culture, this special issue aims to chart the current and emerging contours of digital humanities in Middle East Studies. We are delighted to have Laila Shereen Sakr (University of California, Santa Barbara) as guest editor for this issue.
We welcome submissions from across the diverse landscape of digital humanities work in Middle East studies, including but not limited to: computational and AI methods (such as text mining, data visualization, natural language processing (NLP), LLMs and generative models applied to regional sources); algorithmic empire and digital colonialism, militarized AI and the political economy of tech, Middle Eastern futures and futurity, social media and digital public spheres; critical approaches to data ethics, privacy, and algorithmic accountability; feminist and decolonial perspectives; digital archives and libraries; mapping and spatial humanities; as well as media, arts, and cultural digital humanities.
This issue will focus on contributions demonstrating the unique opportunities and distinct challenges that emerge when the linguistic, cultural, and archival work of Middle East Studies meets digital technology. This issue aims to provide theoretical grounding and guidance for scholars interested in developing digital humanities projects for their research or teaching while fostering broader conversations about the future of Middle Eastern studies in the digital age.
Contributions may take several forms:
- DH Interventions- Explorations of how digital humanities reshapes our understanding of key questions in Middle East Studies – what new intellectual terrain does DH open up, and what are the stakes of these shifts for the field?
- State of the Field Reflections- Analytical pieces that survey current trends, assess methodological approaches, or provide frameworks for understanding digital humanities within Middle East studies. These pieces may trace key conversations, collaborations, and areas of innovation across languages, regions, or disciplines.
- Pedagogical Applications- Articles focusing on the use of digital humanities projects in Middle East studies classrooms and/or course design, and getting started guides.
- Project Showcases- Examinations of how digital humanities projects generate new historical, cultural, or linguistic insights, emphasizing their broader implications for the field.
We recognize digital humanities work’s innovative and collaborative nature and welcome co-authored submissions and interdisciplinary approaches.
Timeline
- Abstract Deadline: Jan 12, 2026
- Full Manuscript Submission for Invited Contributions: May 15, 2026
- Peer-Review Process: Summer through early fall of 2026
- Final Revised Manuscripts Due: November 2026
- Target Publication Date: Spring 2027
Submission Guidelines
Please email abstracts to romes@mesana.org by January 12, 2026. Abstracts should be 350-500 words and include:
- Proposed title
- Author name(s) and affiliation(s)
- Brief description of the proposed contribution
- How it fits within the special issue themes
If you have questions about the scope of the issue, potential contributions, or the submission process, please contact: Review of Middle East Studies Editorial Team romes@mesana.org.
Hoda Yousef, Editor of Review of Middle East Studies
Laila Shereen Sakr, Guest Editor of Review of Middle East Studies
Laila Hussein Moustafa, Associate Editor of Review of Middle East Studies
11. Events at SOAS:
SOAS Shapoorji Pallonji Institute of Zoroastrian Studies
Oral Literature, Adaptation, and Resistance in the Zoroastrian Community
6.00pm, Monday 10 November 2025
Research Seminar in Islamic Art (ReSIA)
The Subversive Feminine: Contemporary Iranian Women Artists Challenging Gender Paradigms
6.00pm, Thursday 04 December 2025
Sadler’s Well
14 – 15 November 2025
The Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in association with the National Film and Television School
6.30pm, Sunday 16 November 2015
12. Persia Educational Foundation
Abdolreza Ansari Scholarship Fund
The scholarship is designed to support the education of students of Iranian descent, of any age or citizenship, enrolled in a Master or Doctorate programme in human rights or public service at an internationally accredited university in the UK or beyond.
Deadline: Friday 21 November 2025
13. Lecturer in the Study of Islam (fixed term, 0.5FTE), University of Glasgow
Fixed term until May 2027:
https://www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer-in-the-study-of-islam-lts
The closing date is Thursday, 13 November.
14. Oxford: Call for Applications for Bodleian Visiting Fellowships in Special Collections
Full details of opportunities, and instructions on how to apply, at:
Bodleian Visiting Fellowships in Special Collections | Bodleian Libraries
The call closes on 28 November 2025.
15. University of Toronto: Persian Lithographic Printing Seminar:
“Attitudes towards Lithography in 19th-Century India: The East India Company and Christian Missionaries”
Graham Shaw
University of London
Thursday, November 6, 2025, 12:00 p.m. EST
Zoom Registration Link:
https://utoronto.zoom.us/meeting/register/LzX8QvxMR6y0yTkB7ESWqA
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
16. Of Piety and Heresy: Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad Ghazzālī’s Persian Treatises on Antinomians
A Seyed-Gohrab,
De Gruyter, 2024
17. IQP20th meeting: European Qur’an ERC Project
By: Prof. Dr. Roberto Tottoli , The president of the University of Naples, L’Orientale
Wednesday Nov.5 2025, 15:00-16:30 (Mecca Zone)
For participation: send email to: info@zabanshenasitarikhi.ir
http://zabanshenasitarikhi.ir/p/73/IQP20th-meeting:-European-Quran/
18. Lecture – “Carpeting Safavid Shrines,” Sarah Molina, Virtual Islamic Art History Seminar Series, November 4
The next lecture in the Virtual Islamic Art History Seminar Series will take place on Tuesday, November 4, 2025, at 12:00 Boston and New York / 17:00 London / 20:00 Istanbul.
Sarah Molina (Harvard University) will present “Carpeting Safavid Shrines.”
To attend, please register in advance here:
https://wellesley.zoom.us/meeting/register/Zz_b0jGdRuK8EPDTIxgy4Q
Upon registration, you’ll receive the link to access the lecture.
As always, you can find a full schedule of upcoming talks and register for our list-serv on our website at viahss.org. Although not every talk is recorded, we also have recordings of several recent talks available on the VIAHSS Vimeo page at vimeo.com/viahss. Lastly, you can follow us on Instagram at @theviahss to stay up to date on upcoming events!
A reminder that our 2026 CFP is open until November 14. To learn more and submit a proposal, please visit: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSft18j9ZomsQ58XNp7QU4z-6aGDrkMFyKmmqaXzt7bVBm9wyQ/viewform__;!!HXCxUKc!yI1L9AAKLn5JlU1wX1Sya3GKLWLHC5GTMw0WFLMqg-bjHMW9ce0fJvcfNdtbclLQbm9uN0-U9Es_o8D-$.
Contact Information
Drs. Alexander Brey, Jaimee Comstock-Skipp, and Rachel Winter
Contact Email
URL
19. The Islamic College
The Story of Leili o Majnun
As an Allegory of the Sufi Path of Love in Persian Poetry
Dr Leili Anvar
Friday, 28 November 2025
6:00-7:30 pm (London time)
Online (register for link)
https://islamic-college.ac.uk/monthly-talk-the-story-of-leyli-o-majnun/
20. Call for Papers | 2026 BRISMES Annual Conference: War, Empire and Sabotage in an Age of Genocide
In these profoundly challenging times, our commitment to fostering knowledge exchange and building a vibrant scholarly community remains at the heart of the BRISMES Annual Conference. With this in mind, we are pleased to announce that submissions for the 2026 BRISMES Conference, co-hosted by the SOAS Middle East Institute on 23-25 June 2026, are now open. We warmly invite you to review the call for papers and submit your abstracts for individual presentations, panels, roundtables or creative interventions.
As always, we encourage submissions that sit outside the conference theme and are more broadly related to Middle East Studies. Relevant disciplines include – but are not limited to – politics, culture and society, language, literature, anthropology, economics, history, linguistics and translation studies, in or related to the MENA region.
Deadline: 14 December 2025
https://www.brismes.ac.uk/news/call-for-papers-2026-brismes-annual-conference
21. Early Career Research Fellowship – Arts
University of Cambridge
Applications are invited for a Research Fellowship in the following Arts subjects – Archaeology, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, Geography (Social Science), History, History and Philosophy of Science, History of Art, Social Anthropology – which will normally be tenable for three years from 1 October 2026.
Deadline | 10 November 2025
22. Call for Papers | Kurdish Studies Conference
Conference | LSE | 29 April – 1 May 2026
The conference organisers warmly invite the submission of papers for the fourth Kurdish Studies Conference organised by the Kurdish Studies Series at the LSE Middle East Centre and the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Sheffield. The organisers welcome paper submissions with social sciences and humanities disciplinary approaches to any aspect of Kurdish studies.
Deadline | 28 November 2025
23. Traversing Spaces of Exception: Exploring New Methodologies in Research Practice and Publication
Seminar | AKU-ISMC | 4 November 2025
This seminar addresses the explosion of interest within Academia in alternative methods for both doing and publishing research. Using his own research project ‘The Native and Refugee’ as a case study, Malek Rasamny will explore a whole host of non-paper associated media from blogs to websites to documentary film.
More information
24. 4 novembre 2025 : 1ère séance du séminaire de l’IISMM : Autorité et culture politique en Iran qajar et dans l’Empire ottoman (ca. 1780-1920)
La première séance (2025-2026) du séminaire Autorité et culture politique en Iran qajar et dans l’Empire ottoman (ca. 1780-1920) aura lieu le mardi 4 novembre de 10h à 12h, à l’IISMM (EHESS, 54 bd Raspail 75006 Paris), Salle B3-18.
Il est également possible d’y assister à distance par le lien zoom suivant :
https://ehess-fr.zoom.us/j/98558979025?pwd=1EOFoBWcE9No6JJTZb9fixfu9VamZe.1
Intervenante : Sara Zanotta (Università di Torino)
Titre de l’intervention : Entre constitutionnalisme et anti-impérialisme : l’activisme international des Iraniens à l’étranger pendant la révolution constitutionnelle iranienne (1906-1911)
Résumé de l’intervention
Cette séance traitera de la façon dont les Iraniens à l’étranger ont interprété et participé à la révolution constitutionnelle iranienne, en mettant l’accent sur leurs efforts pour obtenir un soutien international. Après le bombardement de l’Assemblée Nationale en juin 1908, d’éminents députés et constitutionnalistes ont fui vers le Caucase du Sud, l’Empire ottoman et l’Europe pour échapper à l’arrestation ou à la mort et ils ont alors rejoint les communautés iraniennes déjà établies à l’étranger. Cet exil a renforcé l’activisme politique des communautés iraniennes en dehors de l’Iran qajar, tandis que la résistance à l’autocratie et à l’impérialisme s’intensifiait dans l’empire. Leur action ne se limitait pas à un soutien direct aux révolutionnaires en Iran à travers des financements, mais prenait également la forme d’un « activisme international » visant à rallier le soutien d’activistes et de gouvernements étrangers. Ce séminaire discutera les pratiques et les stratégies discursives grâce auxquelles ils ont recueilli du soutien en Asie, en Europe et en Afrique, depuis des dizaines de pétitions envoyées des pays aussi lointains que la Grande-Bretagne, l’Égypte et l’Inde jusqu’aux réunions publiques et aux manifestations en France et dans l’Empire ottoman, et montrera comment, de cette manière, les débats issus de l’Iran qajar ont trouvé un écho international.
Contacts
Denis Hermann : dnshermann@gmail.com
25. 11th International Conference of the Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East (SSCLE) “Crossing Seas – Crossing Cultures”, University of Porto, 29 June – 3 July 2026
Themes: Politics, Religion and Culture. – Women and Gender. – The Muslim World and the Crusades. – New Sources, New Interpretations. – Art, Archaeology and Material Culture. – Military History.
Deadline for abstracts: 15 November 2025. Information: https://tinyurl.com/mrxwu7wm
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