The Islamicate Digital Humanities Network is hosting their 3rd conference on Wednesday, April 29th from 10 am to 1 pm EDT (consult the time table below and attached to this post, in order to find out at what time the meeting is taking place in your time zone). The conference will be held online on ZOOM (an … Continue reading Conference: 3rd Islamicate Digital Humanities Network Conference
Panel 2: Governance In A Time Of Pandemic: A Global View The second panel in the series, moderated by Dean Ahmad Dallal, will investigate the types of global pressures that influence … Continue reading Panel Discussion: “Governance In A Time Of Pandemic: A Global View,” Georgetown University Qatar
Seminar Filippo Valguarnera, Associate Professor and senior lecturer in Legal History, Stockholm University will lead an advanced seminar on the topic of “Comparative Legal History and the Debate about Legal Creativity” on 26 May 2020 at 13.00 -15.00 via Zoom. The discussion will be conducted in English unless all participants are fluent in Swedish. The idea of creativity … Continue reading Seminar: Comparative Legal History and Legal Creativity, Professor Filippo Valguarnera, Stockholm University
The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents the CMES Commencement Celebration Wednesday, May 27, 2020 12:00-2:00 pm on Zoom Family & friends of the graduates invited; please share this invitation with them. For information on how to attend via Zoom, RSVP to elizabethflanagan@fas.harvard.edu.
The Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law is holding virtual panel discussion in their series Afternoon Talks on Islamic Law of the Research Group on Family and … Continue reading Conference: Covid-19: implications for the application of family law in MENA countries, 1 July (virtual)
From the Roya Institute for Global Justice: - Dear friends and colleagues, - Distinguished members of the Advisory Board of Royal Institute, - Honorable Instructors of Roya Institute e-TOT courses on CLE, - Respectful Representatives of the Institute in India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Costa Rica, Hopefully, this note finds you well. I am pleased … Continue reading E-Invite: Celebrating Human Rights Day, Roya Institute, December 10, 2020 @ 11:00 am – 12:15 pm
From the Middle East Librarians Association: The Middle East Librarians Association (MELA)’s Social Justice Committee is pleased to announce the 4th lecture in our 2020 series, “Stories and Silences: Research on Race in the Middle East.” This month our speaker Dr. Chouki El Hamel will speak on “Slavery, Race and the Archives in Morocco: The … Continue reading Online Lecture: Slavery, Race and the Archives in Morocco: The Epistemology of Silence with Chouki El Hamel, The Middle East Librarians Association, December 17, 2020 @ 11 am
From the organizers: Arabic literatures are usually studied as purely creative products, a body of texts disembodied from their material life. Bibliotheca Arabica, in contrast, focusses on the context, the production, transmission, and reception of the manuscripts that for centuries carried the works we study today. Knowing what was copied, read, endowed, or owned when, … Continue reading Webinar: Bibliotheca Arabica – A Digital Home for the Arabic Manuscript Tradition, Institute for Advanced Study, School of Historical Studies (Near Eastern Studies) and Digital Scholarship@IAS, April 14, 2021 @ 12pm
From the organizers: Speakers: Columba Stewart, Executive Director Catherine Walsh, Director of Cataloging Joshua Mugler, Curator of Islamic Manuscripts David Calabro, Curator of Eastern Christian Manuscripts Daniel Gullo, Director of the Malta Study Center Ali Diakite and Paul Naylor, Catalogers of West African Manuscripts Celeste Gianni, Cataloger of Arabic Manuscripts Co-sponsor: Mahindra Humanities Center Medieval … Continue reading Online Webinar: Research Methods Workshop: The Hill Museum and Manuscript Library, St. John’s University, Collegeville, Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program, April 22, 2021 @ 11 am – 1 pm
PROF. SAMY AYOUB (University of Texas): Creativity in Continuity: al-Rasa’il al-Fiqhiyya as a Genre for Legal Change Organized by: Hakki Arslan (Collaborative Research Center (SFB 1385) at the Münster University) … Continue reading Monthly Lectures on Islamic Legal Genres: “Genres as a Tool for Understanding Islamic Law” with Samy Ayoub, May 26, 2021 @ 12:00 – 1:30 pm
