Europe’s past is overwhelmingly monarchical, yet the monarchies that remain in place today hardly resemble those that governed Europe at the end of the Middle Ages. Modernity has transformed monarchy from a matter of unquestioned and often sacred fact to a matter of largely secular and usually democratic choice. If the words remain the same … Continue reading Call for Papers: Monarchy and Modernity, 1500-1945
We are inviting advanced doctoral students and early career researchers in the area of Islamic legal studies, to apply to participate in the USPPIP Autumn School. USPPIP is a collaborative project of the universities of Exeter, Bergen, Göttingen, and Leiden. The project (running from 2016 to 2018) aims to explore how the past is employed … Continue reading Call for Applications: Autumn School: Uses of the Past in Islamic Legal Thought and Practice
West Africa and the Maghreb: Reassessing Intellectual Connections in the 21st Century Thursday, September 13, 2018 Welcome Address 5.30-5.45 PM David N. Hempton, Dean of Harvard Divinity School HDS Faculty Grant Program Janet Gyatso, Academic Dean of Harvard Divinity School Keynote Lecture 5.45-7.00 PM Ousmane Kane, “The Transformation of the Pilgrimage Tradition in West … Continue reading Conference: West Africa and the Maghreb (Harvard University)
This conference is a follow-up to a series of conversations on the relations between historiography, ideology, and law that took place at the University of Helsinki in March 2018. Among other things, the Boston College conference will take up a set of questions about the recent trajectory of critical legal history, as well as about … Continue reading Conference: Historiography/Ideology/Law II
The program for the "Understanding Shari’a: Perfect Past, Imperfect Present" (USPPIP) end-of-project conference is available here. The conference is free to attend but registration is necessary. Please register by sending an email to [email protected] detailing which days/sessions you will be attending. Registration is open until 1 pm UK time on Friday, September 21st. Those attending … Continue reading Conference: Uses of the Past in Islamic Law
The Governance Programme at the Aga Khan University Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations is hosting Sharia in Europe? — In Anticipation of the ECtHR Ruling on the Molla Sali v Greece Case on Monday 8 October 2018, 12:30-14:30. Abstracts Sharia Law in Europe: A Greek Case Before the ECtHR that May Bring Changes Konstantinos Tsitselikis, University of … Continue reading Lecture: Aga Khan University: Sharia in Europe?
The aim of this exploratory and informal workshop is to reflect on methodologies, research agendas, and case studies for investigating history writing in Arabic in the Middle East and North Africa in any period from the seventh century to the present. We are interested in papers that consider the practical and conceptual challenges of working … Continue reading Arabic Pasts: Histories and Historiographies
(Free and Open to the Public) About the Symposium The University of Chicago Shiʿi Studies Symposium is an endeavor of the Shiʿi Studies Group, established in 2010, to provide an interdisciplinary, non-area-specific forum for the discussion of research on Shiʿism by faculty and graduate students at the University and beyond. The annual symposium aims to … Continue reading UChicago Shi’i Studies Symposium
A collaborative workshop by the Institute of Ismaili Studies in London and the Law, Authority and Learning in Imami Shiite Islam (LAWALISI) Project at the University of Exeter. See a list of speakers and topics here. The workshop is free to attend, but places are limited. Pre-registration is required. To register, please email [email protected] before … Continue reading Workshop: Ḥadīth, Law and Theology in Early Shiʿīte Islam (London)
Submissions are solicited for a one-day symposium on "The Qurʾān and Ethiopia: Context and Reception," which will be held at The Catholic University of America (Washington, DC) on Monday, April 8, 2019. Connections between the Qurʾān and Ethiopia are vast and varied. On the one hand, Ethiopia provides an important historical context (among many others) … Continue reading Call for Papers: The Qurʾān and Ethiopia: Context and Reception
