Call for papers

March 12-13, 2020, at Leiden University As part of the ERC-funded project, “Embedding Conquest, Naturalising Muslim Rule (600-1000)”, at Leiden University, this conference aims to bring together both senior and junior scholars to present research which illuminates the dynamics implicit in the act of excommunication and associated practices: ostracism, anathema, and other forms of religio-social … Continue reading Call for Papers: “Acts of Excommunication” in the Late Antique and Early Islamicate Middle East

Criminal activity and its investigation hold a special value to historians. They bring to the forefront debates on important issues such as race, gender and class, and expose moral assumptions. They also allow historians to follow general patterns of crime investigation and examine global interactions. Crime and its investigation should therefore be examined not only … Continue reading Call for Papers: Criminal Activity and its Investigation in Africa and the Middle East (1-2 Jun 2020 | Ben-Gurion University)

The Association for Middle East Women’s Studies (AMEWS) is pleased to invite submissions of abstracts for an international conference on gender and women’s studies in the Middle East in the second week of March 2021 in Beirut, Lebanon, in partnership with local universities (American University of Beirut and Lebanese American University). This is the first … Continue reading Call for Papers: Women and Gender Studies in the Middle East

Troubling Translation(s) University of Pennsylvania, February 21-22, 2020. The University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication, Program for Comparative Literature and Theory, Department of South Asia Studies, Department of Religious Studies, and South Asia Center invite graduate students of all stages to consider translation as concept, practice, and method. Our discussions will … Continue reading Call for Papers: “Troubling Translation(s)” Graduate Conference ( 21-22 Feb, 2020 | University of Pennsylvania)

The Annual Law and Society Association is accepting proposals for their annual meeting. The submission period for the Law and Society Association’s Call for Submissions opens on September 5, and the deadline is November 6, 2019, at 11:59 p.m. ET (USA). The Program Committee welcomes any scholar studying sociolegal activities to submit a paper proposal. We … Continue reading Call for Submissions: Law and Society Association Annual Meeting (28-31 May 2020 | Denver, Colorado)

The Near Eastern Studies graduate students at UC Berkeley would like to invite the graduate students in your department to participate in the 2020 UC Berkeley Near Eastern Studies Graduate Student Conference. The conference will take place on March 13–14, 2020 on the UC Berkeley campus, consisting of two days of thematically-organized panel sessions. Faculty will serve as the … Continue reading Call for Papers: Near Eastern Studies Graduate Student Conference, UC Berkeley (13-14 Mar | UC Berkeley)

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