Summary: In this workshop, researchers will learn how to organize, manipulate, and visualize their data. We will first focus on good data organization practices and use spreadsheets to tidy and wrangle several datasets. We will then manipulate, clean, and enhance our data in OpenRefine, a powerful tool for working with messy data. Finally, we will … Continue reading Harvard Workshop: Research Methods in Islamic Studies
BRAIS 2019The Annual Conference of the British Association for Islamic Studies Monday 15th - Tuesday 16th April 2019 Teaching and Learning Building, University Park, University of Nottingham, NG7 2RD REGISTRATION FOR BRAIS 2019 IS NOW OPEN. CLICK HERE TO REGISTER. PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME All panels and plenaries will take place in the Teaching and … Continue reading Registration Deadline for British Association for Islamic Studies (BRAIS) 2019 Conference
In Muslim minority contexts, particularly in the UK and Europe, some of the prevalent discourses on religious-only Muslim marriages share an underlying assumption of a homogenous, legally recognised and culturally streamlined form of Muslim marriages found in Muslim majority contexts. However, this depiction does not represent the diverse and plural lived experiences of how Muslim … Continue reading Muslim Marriages: Plurality of Norms and Practices
"Danish Mosques – Significance, Use and Influence" together with the "Nordic Mosques Research network" invites papers and applications for participation. This will be the first workshop as part of the HS-NOS funding and the mid-term conference in the Danish Mosques research project. The workshop will take place at in Göteborg in Sweden at the Hotel … Continue reading Call for Papers: Mosques, Families, and Islamic Law
Methodologies, Technologies, Epistemologies: New Contact Zones in Islamic Studies This conference seeks to tackle questions on how might different disciplines approach the same vital social question: How does a well-established academic field integrate new technological and methodological approaches? And how might these new approaches encourage greater engagement with diverse scholarly voices and the public at large? These … Continue reading NYU Conference: New Contact Zones in Islamic Studies
"Contact and Convergence: An Interdisciplinary Conference in Islamic Studies" How might different disciplines approach similar central questions? How does a well-established academic field integrate new technological and methodological approaches? And how might these new approaches encourage greater engagement with diverse scholarly voices and the public at large? Please register here: https://isnyu2019.weebly.com/ May 10th (Location TBD) … Continue reading NYU Conference: Contact and Convergence
This panel brings together a number of papers that examine the legal, political, and social dynamics surrounding the invocation or engagement of the Islamic legal tradition in the contemporary world. Papers explore contexts ranging from Iraqi Kurdistan, to Jordan, to England and the United States. Session Organizer Steven Boutcher, UMass Amherst Chair Nurfadzilah Yahaya, National … Continue reading Law and Society Association: Islamic Law and Society in Contemporary and Hybrid Legal Contexts
The book interrogates the claim that human rights are axiomatic with liberal freedom. Revisiting human rights interventions on gender, and on behalf of sexual and religious minorities, the author exposes how such interventions have advanced neo-liberal agendas and new forms of imperialism, and enabled a carceral politics rather than produced freedom for their constituencies. Focusing … Continue reading Law and Society Association: Book Talk on “Gender, Alterity and Human Rights: Freedom in a Fishbowl”
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 a dignity-restoring instrument. Farkas probes the conceptions of dignity by European and US actors in the Transnational Roma Rights Network arguing that the transnationality of … 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 Religion: Islam, Liberal Rights, and the Malaysian State (Cambridge University Press, 2018). Constituting Religion examines how dual constitutional commitments to religion and liberal rights invite … Continue reading Law and Society Association: Book Talk on “Constituting Religion: Islam, Liberal Rights, and the Malaysian State”
