Held in central London, this conference will raise key issues surrounding religious arbitration, the veil and gender segregation at schools and universities, including as part of the religious-Right's assault on women's rights. It will also highlight the voices of people on the frontlines of resistance, the gains made by secularists both in the UK and … Continue reading Conference: Sharia, Segregation and Secularism
The Sixth Annual Conference of the British Association for Islamic Studies 15 - 16 April 2019 (Arrival and Registration from 14 April) University of Nottingham Call for panels and papers Following BRAIS’s successful conferences in Edinburgh (2014), London (2015 and 2016), Chester (2017) and Exeter (2018), the organisers invite proposals for whole panels or individual … Continue reading Call for Papers: British Association for Islamic Studies (BRAIS) 2019 Conference
Event Summary: This symposium focuses on relationship breakdown where there is no state recognised marriage. This may include couples in a religious-only marriage, those whose ceremony was conducted by a non-religious belief organisation, those who are cohabiting, or a range of other relationship types which fall outside of the ambit of a state recognised marriage. … Continue reading UK Family Law Conference: “Relationship Breakdown: Informal and Legal Solutions”
Criminal Law Developments in the Muslim-Majority Countries in the Light of Interaction between Shari’a and Law In response to a complex of internal and international factors, the judicial and legal structures of Muslim majority countries have changed drastically in the recent decades. Importantly, the experience of modern criminal law in the context of constitutional making … Continue reading Conference: Criminal Law Developments in Muslim-Majority Countries
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
