Applications are welcome for the MA in Muslim Cultures at the Aga Khan University’s Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations (AKU-ISMC) in London.
The MA programme provides expert insight and deep understanding of Muslim cultures and civilisations, both in the historical and contemporary worlds. AKU-ISMC’s programme gives students the skills to engage critically, in original and creative ways, with the challenges faced by Muslim societies.
To help ensure that students are fulfilling the objectives of this course, AKU-ISMC’s teaching is student-centred and our academics, who are leaders in their fields, seek to enhance learning through a multi-faceted approach that applies a framework of world cultures, humanities and social sciences to the study of Muslim contexts.
The First World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies (WOCMES) in 2002 was initiated by MESA. Since then, this World Congress has become the most important international event on studies in social sciences and humanities related to the Middle East, North Africa and the Muslim states of Central Asia and the relations of this region with other parts of the world.
More than 3000 scholars, researchers, students and professionals drawn from a broad range of academic, educational and other institutions, organizations and associations from around the world participated in the last WOCMES in Seville.
If your institute or university is interested in hosting the next World Congress in 2025, please send me your application with the following information: – Name and address of the institution; persons responsible for the organisation of the World Congress; – Previous experience in hosting major conferences; – Proposed location of WOCMES-6 (visa restrictions, accessibility and distance to nearest international airport, availability of lecture halls for up to 30 parallel sessions and up to 2500 participants); – Accommodation (number of hotel rooms close to the WOCMES location, range of hotel prices, availability of low-cost accommodation for students); – Financial matters (expected registration fee; prospects of financial support from public sources or private institutions; chance to get reduced airfares; availability of travel grants for low-income paper presenters); – Proposed date of WOCMES-6 (taking into consideration regular major conferences on the Middle East, holiday seasons, start and end of university terms, major religious festivities, weather conditions); – Possibility to arrange an attractive program of cultural events and sightseeing tours;
In order to avoid a competition with the Annual MESA Meeting, it is not possible to host WOCMES in North America.
L’IRMC lance un appel à candidatures pour l’obtention d’une bourse de recherche de moyenne durée (1 à 3 mois), pour des sujets de recherche portant impérativement sur l’Algérie.
L’IRMC lance un appel à candidatures pour l’obtention d’une bourse de séjour de recherche d’un mois à l’IRMC, pour les étudiant.e.s libyen.ne.s inscrit.e.s en Master 2 ou en thèse dans une université libyenne.
Les dossiers complets doivent être transmis à l’attention de : Madame Katia Boissevain, Directrice de l’Institut de Recherche sur le Maghreb Contemporain : irmc.maghreb.tunis@gmail.com
Over the past few decades, the MENA region has been caught up in a succession of political upheavals, deep instability, and armed conflicts. The escalation of tension, and in some cases large-scale violence, in places such as, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Palestine, Syria, and Yemen, have affected every single aspect of daily life, whether social, cultural, political, and economic. Cultural heritage sites, monuments, and museums have been severely damaged and looted; hundreds of thousands of people have been killed; millions uprooted and displaced; and decades of developmental progress have been reversed.
This vast scale of cultural heritage destruction over the past decade has created an urgent need for a critical conversation about, and interrogation of, reconstruction and recovery in the region. Reconstruction thinking has been spurred on in the past few years by regional and international efforts to rebuild war-affected heritage sites, monuments, and infrastructure, in historic cities and archaeological heritage sites such as, Aleppo, Mosul, and Palmyra. Whilst these examples have been subject of renewed research interest, the wider task of rebuilding entire cities and countries in MENA in the early 2020s faces the obstacle of lack of success stories of recovery. The conference contributes towards a comparative knowledge base on the obstacles to, and enablers of, heritage reconstruction, management of cultural resources, and recovery of societies in post-conflict MENA. It builds upon the growing academic research agenda that has produced timely and thought-provoking debates on the future of the heritage and culture in post-conflict societies in the region (Meskell 2018[1]; Munawar & Symonds 2022[2]; Newson & Young 2017[3]).
Those wishing to participate can submit papers on any of the following themes: protection and rebuilding of built heritage; cultural management in post-conflict settings; re-production and promotion of cultural memory; silenced and marginalized narratives and contested memories; reconciliation, transitional justice and prosecuting heritage criminals; impact of reconstruction on refugees and internal displacement; state and non-state agency in cultural management and national identity rebuilding; and planning and financing post-conflict reconstruction of cultural heritage.
MAMLUK SYMPOSIUM II : SCIENCE, THOUGHT, ART, AND INSTITUTIONS
1–2 JUNE 2023
Organized by Istanbul University, İslam Tetkikleri Enstitüsü, İslami İlimler Araştırma Vakfı (İSAV)
The era of Mamluk rule was a time of intellectual and artistic flourishing. From 1250 to 1517, the Mamluk elite established madrasas, dervish lodges, hospitals, and observatories across the lands they ruled in Egypt, Syria, and the Hijaz, including in the great cities of Cairo, Damascus, Mecca, Medina, Jerusalem, and Aleppo. Scholars, scientists, thinkers, artisans, and Sufis from all over the Muslim world relocated to the Mamluk realm, further nourishing its intellectual and cultural dynamism. Meanwhile, pilgrims, students, and other visitors to Mamluk lands brought what they learned there back to their homes, thereby helping to spread Mamluk accomplishments in various fields to other parts of the Muslim world, including both newer territories like Anatolia and the Balkans as well as older centers of learning, trade, and governance like the Maghreb, Andalusia, Iran, Transoxiana, and India.
New Journal at the Institute for Near Eastern Studies, University of Vienna
KESHIF e-Journal for Ottoman-Turkish Micro Editions
Keshif is a peer-reviewed online journal dedicated to collecting and editing short, interesting Ottoman texts and providing easy, free access to the material through a database with good search functions.
Congrès Rotondes – Deuxième édition – 30-31 Mars 2023
En finir avec le canon ? Formation, continuité, rupture des références en histoire de l’art et archéologie
Rotondes, Congrès des jeunes chercheurs et chercheuses en histoire de l’art et archéologie, vise à rassembler le plus largement possible celles et ceux qui travaillent à l’histoire de l’art et à l’archéologie de demain.
Après une première édition dédiée aux rôles de ces disciplines dans les sociétés contemporaines, cette deuxième nouvelle rencontre propose d’interroger, dans une démarche épistémologique, leur constitution et transformation. Il importe pour cela d’examiner leurs objets d’étude, en particulier la manière dont ils sont construits, transmis et redéfinis. L’histoire de l’art et l’archéologie se sont construites développées comme disciplines sur un ensemble de références (artistes, œuvres, monuments, objets, sites, etc.) qui s’accompagne d’un discours relatif à leur qualité, leur représentativité culturelle et leur importance historique. Ce corpus, considéré comme exemplaire, s’est imposé comme un socle sur lequel se construit l’enseignement de ces disciplines.
The American Institute for Maghrib Studies (AIMS) is seeking proposals for its annual conference for 2023, with ideas for 2024 and 2025 welcome. The annual AIMS conference is a signature event that brings together delegations of scholars from the US, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and occasionally individual scholars from other countries, as appropriate. The AIMS conferences are held in late spring/early summer at one of the three overseas research centers – Tangier, Oran, or Tunis.
AIMS members interested in proposing a theme with resonance across the countries of the Maghrib are encouraged to submit a formal proposal for the 2023 conference by September 19, 2022; ideas and proposals for 2024 and 2025 conferences are also welcome.
Founded in 2012, the International Journal of Islamic Architecture (IJIA) publishes peer-reviewed articles on the urban design, architecture and landscape architecture of the historic Islamic world, encompassing the Middle East and parts of Africa and Asia, but also the more recent geographies of Islam in its global dimensions. IJIA’s main emphasis is on the detailed analysis of the historical, theoretical, and practical aspects of architecture, and the audience of the journal includes both practitioners and scholars. IJIA is indexed in all major scientific databases, such as the Arts & Humanities Citation Index (AHCI), EBSCO, and Scopus, and is the winner of the Mohamed Makiya Prize for Architecture 2019. The journal publishes two issues per year.
The widespread use of Persian in the Ottoman Empire as part of the larger multilingual region of the Eastern Mediterranean and beyond during the early modern to modern periods has been highlighted by scholars from various disciplines. Concepts such as the “Persophonie” (Bert G. Fragner) or the “Persianate world” (Nile Green) have pointed out the significant influence of Persian in the fields of literature, education and, to some extent, administration and diplomacy (e.g. as a lingua franca) in much of the eastern Islamic world from the 11th to the 19th centuries, especially in the Ottoman Empire. However, these discussions still lack adequate contextualisation and a multidisciplinary approach that allows for an analytical understanding of the phenomenon of translation as a particular mechanism of knowledge transmission and exchange in these contexts. The notion of translation as a concept, process, and product of transregional and intercultural entanglements in the broader Transottoman sphere thus poses an ongoing challenge to contemporary scholarship, especially with regard to the discussion of the Persian language and its role and significance in various cultural, literary, and political realms.
The aim of the conference is to bring together scholars with expertise in Persian and Ottoman Turkish language contacts who are interested in the fields of language, literature, and history, and to explore the role of multilingual practices – especially translation – which are an essential part of knowledge production in the respective traditions. In addition, the conference seeks to provide a forum for discussion and collaboration between scholars of Ottoman, Iranian and Arabic studies and beyond who are concerned with the interactions of the three languages in the Ottoman Empire (elsine-i s̱elās̱e) and examine their functions as well as the interrelationships between languages, (literary) genres, and disciplines.
Christopher Markiewicz, University of Birmingham, UK
Editorial Advisory Board:
Amila Buturović, York University, Canada
Emine Fetvacı, Boston University, USA
Joshua M. White, University of Virginia, USA
Stefan Winter, The Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada
The Ottoman Empire sat at the crux between Asia, Africa, and Europe and connected systems of trade, politics, and culture across continents. It also contained diverse worlds within it through the many peoples, languages, and religions its imperial frame encompassed. These worlds of the Ottoman Empire informed the expanding horizons of the early modern period both through its internal dynamics and far-flung interactions.
Kadim is a peer-reviewed journal specializing in Ottoman studies. The journal, published twice a year (April and October), welcomes submissions for the fourth issue. It aims to provide an open-source academic platform for researchers worldwide to share their work in the field of Ottoman Studies. Kadim encourages a critical approach and aims to publish high-quality works of varied disciplines, thus contributing to the field’s expansion and development. We welcome original research articles, research notes, critical editions and translations of primary sources, book and conference reviews, dissertation abstracts, academic translations, interviews, biographical and bibliographical articles, and obituaries.
L’Académie doctorale HoRÉA (Horizons de Renouvellement des Études Arabes) du GIS Moyen-Orient et mondes musulmans lance un appel à candidatures ouvert jusqu’au 18 juillet 2022.
L’Académie doctorale HoRÉA est un programme de formation et d’accompagnement interdisciplinaire et interuniversitaire destiné à des doctorantes et doctorants de toutes disciplines des sciences humaines et sociales (littérature, linguistique, histoire, islamologie, philosophie et histoire des sciences, histoire de l’art, études culturelles et arts, anthropologie, sociologie, sciences politiques, géographie et études urbaines) dont le travail porte sur les mondes arabes et implique une maîtrise avancée de la langue arabe, acquise ou en cours d’acquisition.
