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May 2022
Tenth Islamic Legal Studies Conference, Aga Khan Centre in London, International Society for Islamic Legal Studies, May 19-21, 2022
The Society for Islamic Legal Studies holds a conference on Islamic law every three years. The 2021 conference has been postponed to 2022 due to the Covid-19 pandemic and will take place at the Aga Khan University Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations in London. As the date nears, the Call for Papers and other details will be posted. Keep an eye on this page.
Find out more »Call for Papers: “The X Islamic Legal Studies Conference,”International Society of Islamic Legal Studies (ISILS), London, May 19-21, 2022
Call for Papers The X Islamic Legal Studies Conference convened by the International Society of Islamic Legal Studies (ISILS) under the auspices of the Governance Programme at the Aga Khan University – Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations (AKU-ISMC), London May 19-21, 2022 ISILS invites paper proposals for its tenth Islamic Legal Studies conference, to be held at the Aga Khan Centre in London, 19–21 May 2022. The sessions with paper presentations will be preceded by an opening…
Find out more »June 2022
Conference on Kurdish Family Law, Harnack House in Berlin, June 2-4, 2022
The Conference on Kurdish Family Law is organized by Shéhérazade Elyazidi (Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law) and Sebastian Maisel (University of Leipzig). The research conference will be held at the Harnack House in Berlin from 2 – 4 June 2022. The Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law hosts and provides funding for the conference. The different questions surrounding the application of family law in the Kurdish Areas in an interdisciplinary way will be discussed in…
Find out more »Workshop: Formation, Establishment, and Evolution of the Mālikī Madhhab, University of Laussane, June 4, 2022
For details, see here. The Zoom link is https://unil.zoom.us/j/97655329872.
Find out more »Summer School 2022: Philology and Manuscripts from the Muslim World
Apply now for the fourth LUCIS Summer School on Philology and Manuscripts from the Muslim world, which will take place from Tuesday 23 August until Friday 2 September 2022 in Leiden. The deadline for applications is Friday 17 June 2022. See here for application details.
Find out more »Workshop: Intertextuality in Islamic and Jewish Law, June 21-23, 2022, University of Muenster
From the organizers: Our workshop aims at exploring different kinds of intertextuality and focusses, on the one hand, on the functions that intertextual references fulfill in Jewish legal texts such as responsa, Codes, and Classic Rabbinic literature, and works of Islamic jurisprudence (fiqh), responsa (fatāwā), legal treatises (rasāʾil) and commentaries (šurūḥ). On the other hand, it is intended to analyze how legal discourse enters the purely literary realm through the mention of legal utterances and theological principles into purely literary genres, with reference to the nature of…
Find out more »The Digital Orientalist’s Virtual Conference 2022, June 25, 2022
From the organizers: We are pleased to announce that the Digital Orientalist’s Virtual Conference 2022 will be held on Saturday, June 25, 2022. In 2021, we switched from a Twitter conference format to a full-day Zoom event, dedicated to the discussion of digital research methods. This year the focus of the virtual conference will be “Infrastructures” in the context of digital humanities in the study of Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. We invite papers to discuss how digital humanities research…
Find out more »Call for Papers: Legal Histories of Empire, Maynooth University, 29 June-1 July 2022
From the organizers: CFP: Legal Histories of Empire Posted: 12 May 2021 05:17 AM PDT Third Legal Histories of Empire Conference Beyond the Pale: Legal Histories on the Edges of Empires Maynooth University, 29 June-1 July 2022 Empires. Plural. Across time and across the globe, interconnected, mutually constitutive. We invite papers which consider the interconnections and the legal relations between empires. The conference will particularly focus on the role played by law (broadly defined) in facilitating, constituting, and enabling these…
Find out more »July 2022
Call for Papers: CFP Conflict and Integration: Crossing Medieval Borders – International Medieval Congress, Leeds, July 4-7, 2022
Organizers: Dr Elisa Ramazzina (University of Oxford and Queen’s University Belfast); Professor Karen Pinto Borders are difficult to define, yet they have tangible resonance at various levels. Their function is ambivalent as they allow both alienation and integration. In the Middle Ages the situation was even more intricate, so much so that there are scholars who even deny the existence of boundaries in this era. Nevertheless, the role of borders in shaping particular critical events, such as political-religious conflict, the…
Find out more »Global Law and Society Meeting: ISCTE University Institute of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal, July 13-16, 2022
From the organizers: We are excited to announce the theme of our 2022 Global Meeting that will take place in Lisbon, Portugal and virtually from July 13-16 at the ISCTE University Institute of Lisbon! It will be LSA's 7th Global Meeting on Law and Society, which is held approximately every 5 years. The conference is organized in partnership between LSA and other sociolegal associations around the world, including the Research Committee on Sociology of Law (RCSL), the Asian Law and…
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