This panel investigates how racialized groups mobilize for dignity inside and outside courts. Passalacqua analyzes the transformation of UK migrants' dignity claims by courts and lays bare law's limits as … Continue reading Law and Society Association: Mobilizing European Law Against Racialization and Exclusion
This "Author Meets Reader" panel brings together readers from a variety of career stages and disciplinary backgrounds (law, religion, and political science) to engage with Tamir Moustafa's new book, Constituting … Continue reading Law and Society Association: Book Talk on “Constituting Religion: Islam, Liberal Rights, and the Malaysian State”
The international research collaboration deals with aspects of gender and judging in Muslim courts in the context of the Middle East and South (East) Asia. The issues addressed are: 1) … Continue reading Law and Society Association: Gender and Judging in Muslim Courts
This panel explores the changing nature of the judiciary and civil service bureaucracy in Eastern Europe, Eurasia, and Turkey in the face of political change, both historic and contemporary. Papers … Continue reading Law and Society Association: Courts, Bureaucracy and Politics in Eastern Europe, Eurasia, and Turkey
This international workshop is part of the ERC-funded research project "Problematizing 'Muslim Marriages': Ambiguities and Contestations." With "multiple materialities" we revisit and bring together two fields of anthropological research. On … Continue reading Multiple Materialities of Muslim Marriages
The Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding (ACMCU) at Georgetown University invites you to attend the following event: "Jihad, Radicalism, and the New Atheism," a presentation and talk by Dr. Mohammad Hassan … Continue reading Presentation: “Jihad, Radicalism, and the New Atheism”
Register for this event through Eventbrite: https://tinyurl.com/y5zfqydr Watch this lecture live-streaming on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8eStkmdNlo
“Political Theology” covers a multidisciplinary field of research that engages the unwieldy relationship between religion and politics out of a desire for justice. At the Political Theology Network Conference, we … Continue reading Political Theology Network 2019 Conference
Throughout the academic year, the Program in Islamic Law hosts an "Islamic Law Lecture Series," in which distinguished faculty and fellows present their cutting-edge research on Islamic law, past and … Continue reading Islamic Law Lecture Series: Maya Shatzmiller, The Program in Islamic Law, Harvard Law School
Prof. Marcus Milwright, "The Shock of the New? Writing and the Propagation of Religious Ideology in early Islam" Tue 5 Nov, 6pm G.06, 50 George Square University of Edinburgh The prominent role played by writing in the visual cultures of the Islamic world is, of course, well known. Ornamental scripts adorn buildings and objects of … Continue reading Talk: Professor Marcus Milwright, “The Shock of the New? Writing and the Propagation of Religious Ideology in early Islam”
