Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies

Cycle Printemps 2023 de l’APAMi : Les Arts du livre manuscrit

L’APAMi est heureuse de vous proposer cette année un cycle dédié aux Arts du livre manuscrit.

Programme détaillé du premier volet du cycle “Méthodologie et approche disciplinaire autour des arts du livre manuscrit” :

Atelier d’initiation : Introduction à la codicologie des manuscrits arabes pour historiens et historiennes de l’art, par Etienne Muller (consultant indépendant pour le marché de l’Art, spécialiste des Arts de l’Islam et des manuscrits)

Cette séance d’introduction pratique permet de présenter la discipline de la codicologie arabe, en d’autre termes l’étude matérielle des manuscrits, d’en donner le vocabulaire et de l’appliquer à des cas types.

Mercredi 17 Mai de 10h à 12h – Salle Ingres, INHA

Visite et présentation des collections du fonds arabe et persan de la Bibliothèque nationale de France, par Khalid Chakor Alami (Chargé du fonds de manuscrits persans), BnF

Monsieur Khalid Chakor Alami nous ouvre les portes du département des manuscrits et nous réserve une présentation de la collection. Quelques manuscrits seront sorties de la réserve à l’occasion et une consultation matérielle nous permettra de mettre en pratique les notions abordées à la séance précédente. Nous aurons droit à plusieurs interventions, de la part d’Etienne Muller (consultant), et de nos membres Camille Grandpierre et Hévi Saado.

Mercredi 17 mai de 14h à 17h30 – BnF site Richelieu

INSCRIPTIONS OBLIGATOIRES (PLACES LIMITEES) : apam.islam@gmail.com

Call for application – PhD student/Research associate position at Ruhr-Universität Bochum/ERC Project “LOOP”, for 4 years, part-time (deadline : Mai 2nd, 2023)

The Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies at Ruhr-Universität Bochum is looking for a Research Associate/PhD student (f/m/x) for 4 years (project end: 31.08.2027). The deadline for applications is 2 May 2023. The position begins 1 September 2023.

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Job – Wayne State University, Art & Art History, Pre-Faculty, Fellow in Art History (deadline : June 25th, 2023)

Wayne State University, Art & Art History

Pre-Faculty Fellow in Art History

Institution Type:	College / University
Location:	Michigan, United States
Position:	Post-Doctoral Fellow

Job Description

POSITION: The College of Fine, Performing and Communication Arts of Wayne State University is seeking qualified candidates for appointment as a Pre-Faculty Fellow in Art History in the James Pearson Duffy Department of Art and Art History, full-time, beginning no later than August 17, 2023. The Fellowship is part of the Wayne State Pathway to Faculty Program. The Pathway to Faculty program is an innovative initiative to diversify the professoriate at WSU. In this program, Pre-Faculty Fellows will be guided to and prepared for the acceptance of a tenure-track faculty position in the Department of Art and Art History. This includes mentorship in research and teaching at the university level. This is a 2-year Pre-Faculty Fellowship with the opportunity to teach in the second year. The position transitions to a tenure-track position following a review and meeting milestones established by the fellow’s mentorship committee.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: During the pre-faculty fellowship, the successful candidate will be expected to conduct scholarly research and publish research findings related to their area of expertise. Areas of interest may include one of the following: (1) art, architecture, and visual culture of the Islamic world, with a focus on art of the Islamic Mediterranean, West Asia or South Asia; or (2) art, architecture, and visual culture of the Americas, with a focus on underrepresented groups. The successful candidate will conduct a program of scholarly research and publication while working closely with a mentorship committee and will contribute to other aspects of the intellectual life of the university. During the second year of the pre-faculty fellowship a typical teaching load consists of one course per year with an increase in the third year. Fellows will participate in the Wayne State Pathway to Faculty Program to ensure a successful transition to a tenure-track position. Once moved into a tenure-track position, the fellow will have the opportunity to teach courses in their areas of expertise along with introductory level courses from the department’s general education offerings.

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Call for applications – Fellowship – MESA Global Academy – (Deadline: May 1 2023)

The Global Academy Call for Applications for the 2023-2024 academic year
is now open!

The MESA Global Academy offers competitive fellowships to Middle East Studies scholars from the MENA region who are currently displaced in North America.

The Global Academy awards $5,000 scholarships and facilitates programming for its fellows, including speaking engagements at partner universities across the United States, publication opportunities, mentoring, and professional development workshops.

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Call for applications – Qur’anic manuscripts, past and present: Cataloging and digital tools (deadline : May 3rd, 2023)

Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (Corpus Coranicum), and Al-Furqan Islamic Heritage Foundation (London) are delighted to call for applications for another international training course/workshop in the series :

Scriptorium: Workshops on the study of Oriental manuscripts

This training course/workshop will be organised under the title:

“Qur’anic manuscripts, past and present:
Cataloging and digital tools” (18-23 september 2023)

The last decades have seen important progress in the exploration of the textual history of the Qur’an and its manuscripts. During the workshop, introductions into paleography, codicology, collection history of Qur’anic manuscripts, as well as cataloging will be given. Particular attention will be paid to digital tools developed for the study of Qur’anic manuscripts.

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Call for application – Vekam Research Awards (deadline : 20 April 2023)

CALL FOR VEKAM RESEARCH AWARDS

Deadline for application: 20 April 2023

Koç University Vehbi Koç Ankara Studies Research Center (VEKAM), has issued a call for research awards in order to contribute to scientific studies that investigate Ankara and its environs in any disciplines and

areas without restrictions;

The social, institutional and economic history,
Cultural, social, geographical and environmental characteristics,
Historical, cultural, literal, artistic and urban development,
Tangible and intangible cultural heritage,
Diplomatic, cultural and economic relations with other cities and countries in history.
Urban issues related to historical processes and practices in the field of law, medicine and education,
Urban government and rural areas, development, growth, sustainability, tourism, natural resources, demographic and climate change issues.

Within the framework of the awards, 3 research projects will be provided financial support up to TRY 30,000.

Application Requirements:

Applicant(s) must have at least a bachelor’s degree.
The research award covers the studies that will be newly started and/or the studies that have started and are continuing and that are aimed to be completed at the end of two years at the latest from the date of commencement.
Documentation, inventory, listing, digitization, etc. studies are out of the scope of this award application.
The study/project prepared within the scope of the application can be a Master’s or PhD thesis.
Applications can be made in either Turkish or English.
Previously awarded project coordinators can apply again as project coordinators only after 5 years, however, researchers, experts, etc. can take part in the assignments.

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Call for paper – Journal of Religious Minorities under Muslim Rule (no deadline)

Journal of Religious Minorities under Muslim Rule

Editors-in-Chief: Abbas Aghdassi, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran, and Aaron Hughes, University of Rochester, New York, USA

The Journal of Religious Minorities under Muslim Rule provides a primary venue for scholarly studies that examine religious minorities (such as Christians, Jews, Zoroastrians, Hindus, and other minoritarian Muslim groups) under majoritarian Muslim rule.

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Call for papers – CEMS Graduate Conference 2023, 30-31 May (Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies, Central European University, Vienna) (Deadline : 10 April 2023)

Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies, Central European University, Vienna

Call for Papers – CEMS Graduate Conference 2023, 30-31 May (Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies, Central European University, Vienna)

Keynote Speaker: Nükhet Varlık (Rutgers University, Newark)

Humans and Nature in the Mediterranean Landscape

The consequences of global warming, pandemics, and ecological catastrophes serve as painful reminders of the contingency of human history on its natural environment. These issues have provided a forceful impetus to the study of history with environmental considerations in mind, leading to what scholars coined as an ecological turn. Since Fernand Braudel, several conceptualizations of the Mediterranean and its surroundings as a subject of historical research emphasized how common patterns of climate, geography, flora, and fauna give rise to shared models of ecology, agriculture, and social organization. Subsequently, environmental history, as well as various approaches centering on the environment in several other disciplines, inspired scholars working on a broad range of topics related to the history of the Mediterranean and led to the emergence of various perspectives on the problems of nature, landscape, sustainability, environment, and ecology.

We would like to highlight chase the broad variety of approaches to these topics and to show that themes of nature, environment, and ecology are not only a concern of environmental historians, but they could serve as shared spaces of encounter between scholars arriving from an array of backgrounds and disciplines. To this end, we would like to encourage the application of any participants whose interest relates to these fields, even if they don’t consider themselves “environmental historians proper.” Also, we hope to grope toward a conceptualization of the relations between humans and nature, which complements the agricultural and rural focus of the discipline with a thematization of urban landscapes and spaces as parts of ecologies.

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Call for paper – The Urgency of the Digital (IJIA special issue) (Deadline: June 1, 2023)

CALL FOR PAPERS

International Journal of Islamic Architecture (IJIA)

Special Issue: The Urgency of the Digital

Thematic volume planned for July 1, 2025

Proposal submission deadline: June 1, 2023

This special issue focuses on the critical and urgent use of digital tools, interfaces, media, and methods for the study and design of Islamic architecture, cities, and the built environment. Over recent decades, architectural historians, architects, and other specialists of the built environment have drawn increasingly on digitized databases, digital data, and processing software to reimagine the history, documentation, design, and construction of buildings, gardens, and cities wholesale. Representations of historical, contemporary, razed and never-built structures are now fully realizable, and massive corpora of information that once took many months or years to sort can now be analyzed in seconds. Yet, digital tools, infrastructures, and databases bring their own set of concerns. Databases, like all archives, do not merely contain information, they are information. And as such, they bear the marks of the epistemologies that shape them. Digital files are always remediated, meaning that they are the products of multiple human interventions, just as analogue media are. Some of the platforms that facilitate virtual reality simulations of architecture, cities, and transcontinental migrations enjoy an uncomfortable kinship with the pervasive governmental and private surveillance technologies in use today. Artificial intelligence (AI) has enormous potential to transform the way that architects, city planners, and historical preservationists work, and yet racial, gendered, ethnic, and religious biases in the datasets that machine-learning algorithms employ raise questions about the ramifications of these undertakings. Digital frameworks enable more expansive, multi-layered, and speculative investigations of buildings, cities, and spaces, but they also demand rigorous scrutiny.

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Call for paper – The Textile Museum Journal Centennial Volume (Deadline: April 30, 2024)

The Textile Museum Journal is seeking article proposals for our 52nd volume to be published in 2025. This volume will celebrate the centennial of The Textile Museum‘s establishment, and will be devoted to new research on textile objects in The Textile Museum Collection. Submissions may examine any aspect of textiles from all historic and pre-historic periods, and geographic regions, as well as topics related to fabric structures, textile iconography, weaving practices, constructing and wearing clothing, and other subjects. Articles may include case studies on individual textile objects or analyses of a group of textile objects, which forward a greater argument or investigation about these objects’ cultural and/or technical contexts of production.

We highly suggest engaging with The Textile Museum Collection well before the deadline for submission in order to develop research thoroughly.

Deadline for abstract submissions: April 30, 2024.

Deadline for full manuscript submissions: August 31, 2024.

Manuscripts should be submitted by email to the editorial assistant of The Textile Museum Journal at tmjournal@gwu.edu.

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Adhésion – Société des études sur le Moyen-Orient et les Mondes Musulmans

La SEMOMM, Société des études sur le Moyen-Orient et les Mondes Musulmans, est une association qui a pour objectif de fédérer, soutenir et représenter ceux qui contribuent à l’élaboration, la transmission et la diffusion des connaissances sur le Moyen-Orient et les Mondes Musulmans. Elle le fait notamment en contribuant à l’organisation d’un congrès biennal des études sur cette région et par l’organisation de conférences. Elle complète l’action du GIS Moyen-Orient, fédération d’institutions – tutelles et équipes et entend développer des partenariats avec les instances collectives nationales et internationales sur le champ.

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Prix de thèse – Prix Marcel et Paul Pescheteau des Amis du musée national de la Céramique (date limite : 31 mars 2023)

Afin d’encourager la recherche dans le domaine des arts du Feu (céramique, verre, émail) et de permettre aux meilleurs travaux scientifiques de trouver le plus grand rayonnement, la Société des Amis du musée national de Céramique décernera pour la première fois en 2023, un prix récompensant l’auteur d’une thèse ayant contribué à l’étude et à l’approfondissement des connaissances en la matière, toutes périodes et territoires confondus et quelle que soit la discipline universitaire dans laquelle elle a été soutenue.

Ce prix annuel de 8000 € doté par la société de vente aux enchères Pescheteau–Badin est destiné à éditer la thèse du lauréat dans une collection intitulée «Les Arts du Feu» créée par les Presses Universitaires de Rennes avec lesquelles la Société des Amis du musée national de Céramique a passé un accord.

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Call for paper – Journal of Ankara Studies (deadline : February 28, 2023)

Koc University Vehbi Koc Ankara Studies Research Center (VEKAM) publishes an interdisciplinary biannual refereed journal called the Journal of Ankara Studies since 2013.The first part of the journal contains original research articles centered around Ankara and its environs while the second part is feature opinion articles on this subject. In publishing this journal, the Center aims, in line with its mission, to compile any academic studies which reveal new data on Ankara and it’s environs through scientific research and to support and release them to the public. Journal of Ankara Studies makes up for the huge lack of research about the capital by publishing articles in both Turkish and English.

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Call for application – Ralph C. and Mary Lynn Heid Rare Materials Research Fellowship (deadline : February 1st 2023)

The University of Michigan Library invites applications for fellowships for research in residence.

The Ralph C. and Mary Lynn Heid Rare Materials Research Fellowship is open to researchers whose work would benefit from onsite access to our special collections, including the Islamic Manuscripts Collection held in the Special Collections Research Center.

Our fellows are awarded:

$1,500 for a project requiring a residence of one week or more

$3,000 for a project requiring a residence of three weeks or more

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Appel à contribution – BIDAYA : revue étudiante francophone en sciences humaines et sociales sur le monde arabe (Date limite : 28 avril 2023)

Dossier thématique : « Arts et pouvoir dans le monde arabe »

Quel lien existe-t-il entre les différentes formes d’expression artistique et de pouvoir dans le monde arabe ? Telle est la problématique que se propose d’explorer le dossier thématique du troisième numéro de la revue étudiante Bidaya.
Le rôle de l’art comme outil de contestation n’est plus à démontrer, les soulèvements dans les pays arabes l’ont d’ailleurs largement mis en exergue. De Tunis au Caire, de Bagdad à Beyrouth, les espaces urbains, tout comme le cyberespace, ont été partout investis par des créations aux tonalités souvent très politiques. L’art, en tant qu’expression culturelle, sociale et politique, peut donc être utilisé de manière à influencer la société et/ou à défier le régime politique en place. Cela a été le cas particulièrement dans des moments révolutionnaires ou de lutte politique, comme la révolution égyptienne de 1919 ou la Guerre d’indépendance algérienne. Le véritable pouvoir de l’art, notamment dans des contextes autoritaires, réside alors dans sa capacité à générer des utopies, à imaginer les possibles et à pousser les individus à interroger leurs conditions de vie. C’est en cela que les expressions artistiques sont non seulement une forme de contestation, mais aussi de mobilisation des populations ; d’où l’attention que leur portent les gouvernements et États de tout temps.

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