Call for papers

"Words Laying Down the Law: Translating Arabic Legal Discourse" 7-8 October 2019​, Aga Khan Centre, London The Governance Programme at the Aga Khan University Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations (AKU-ISMC) invites papers in the disciplines of legal anthropology, law and comparative law, legal pragmatics, sociolinguistics and discourse analysis, politics and translation studies for … Continue reading Call for Papers: Translating Arabic Legal Discourse

The Centre for Interfaith Studies at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David is a forum that brings together academics and religious leaders to engage in critical reflection on interfaith studies and interfaith work. Following on from the successful Third Annual Lampeter Interfaith Symposium in 2018, we are happy to announce that the theme for … Continue reading Call for Papers: Practices of Justice in a Multi-faith Context

The Association for the Study of Persianate Societies (ASPS) calls for the participation of its members in its Ninth Biennial Convention, to take place in New Delhi, India, March 11-13, 2020. Our meeting will be hosted by the University of Chicago Center in Delhi. (Please note that you must be a current ASPS member.) All … Continue reading Call for Papers: Association for the Study of Persianate Societies Ninth Biennial Convention

Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Annual Meeting Civil Rights Section & Comparative Law Section (Jan 2-5, 2020 in Washington, DC) Civil rights law is increasingly globalized, as states around the world borrow from one another, and from international conventions, in defining the rights of individuals and groups to be free from discrimination and oppression. … Continue reading Call for Papers: Teaching Comparative Civil Rights Law

"Historical Inertia: Continuity in the Face of Change, 500-1500 CE" Historical discourse has long concerned itself with patterns of change and discontinuity to demonstrate and validate models of periodisation and the compartmentalisation of the wider historical field. Building on these themes, this conference has chosen to focus on the opposing view by concentrating on inertia … Continue reading Call for Papers: Edinburgh Int’l Graduate Conference in Late Antique, Islamic and Byzantine Studies

The Symposium, held at colleges in the University of Oxford, is a forum for discourse and presentation of papers or commentaries by scholars, students, religious leaders, and others who have an interest in issues related to religion and ethics. You may participate as an observer, panel member or a presenter. We accept abstracts on a … Continue reading Call for Papers: Oxford Symposium on Religious Studies

For the 13th biennial conference on August 25th-28th, 2020,  AIS members are invited to submit proposals for a paper, panel, roundtable, or special session (such as an exhibit or performance). Submissions will be accepted May 15-July 15, 2019. Pre-registration for the conference costs $100, or $60 for students.

The American Society for Legal History will host a Student Research Colloquium (SRC) on Wednesday, November 20, and Thursday, November 21, 2019, immediately preceding the ASLH’s annual meeting in Boston, Massachusetts.  The SRC annually enables eight Ph.D. students and law students to discuss their in-progress dissertations and articles with distinguished ASLH-affiliated scholars. The SRC’s target … Continue reading Call for Papers: American Society for Legal History Student Research Colloquium

Workshop paper proposals and round-table participants are being sought for the Mediterranean Seminar’s two-day Fall 2019 meeting on the subject of “Violence,” to be held at the University of Toronto on 4 & 5 October 2019. The meeting is jointly sponsored by the the Malta Study Center at the Hill Museum and Manuscript Library and … Continue reading Call for Papers: “Mediterranean Seminar” on Violence

The Islamic Law Section of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) invites submission of papers for its panel entitled "Islamic Law and the Idea of Mass Incarceration" at the annual meeting in Washington, D.C. on Sunday, January 5, 2020 from 10:30am to 12:15pm. The panel is co-sponsored by the Section on Criminal Justice. The … Continue reading Call for Papers: Islamic Law and the Idea of Mass Incarceration