lectures and talks

Arbiters of Divorce: Islamic Marriage Law and Indian Secularism  Speaker: Katherine Lemons Respondent: Satyel Larson, Princeton University Katherine Lemons is Associate Professor of Anthropology at McGill University and author of Divorcing Traditions: Islamic Marriage Law and the Making of Indian Secularism (2019, Cornell University Press). Her areas of research and expertise include anthropology of Islam … Continue reading Zoom Webinar: Arbiters of Divorce: Islamic Marriage Law and Indian Secularism, Princeton University, October 5, @12-1:20pm

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies and the Department of History present a discussion of Archive Wars: The Politics of History in Saudi Arabia by  Rosie Bsheer Assistant Professor of History, Harvard University The production of history is premised on the selective erasure of certain pasts and the artifacts that stand witness to them. From … Continue reading Discussion: Archive Wars: The Politics of History in Saudi Arabia, Harvard University, October 20, 2020, @12-1:30pm

ABSTRACT Fluid Jurisdictions: Colonial Law and Arabs in Southeast Asia newly released by Cornell University Press is a wide-ranging, geographically ambitious book that tells the story of the Arab diaspora within the context of British and Dutch colonialism, unpacking the community’s ambiguous embrace of European colonial authority in Southeast Asia. Fluid Jurisdictions looks at colonial legal infrastructure – … Continue reading Book Discussion: Fluid Jurisdictions – Colonial Law and Arabs in Southeast Asia, National University of Singapore, October 21, 2020, @10pm

This online lecture series is intended as a preparation for the workshop entitled Digital Humanities and Ottoman Studies.  State of the art, challenges, perspectives and prospective research. The workshop has been postponed to 11-13 February 2021. Updates will be published on this website or our newsletter. Please click here to subscribe to the newsletter. This is a closed … Continue reading Online Lecture: Süphan Kırmızıaltın (Abu Dhabi): Ottoman Text Recognition, The University of Vienna, Department of Near Eastern Studies, October 22, 2020, @12:00-12:40 PM

This online lecture series is intended as a preparation for the workshop entitled Digital Humanities and Ottoman Studies.  State of the art, challenges, perspectives and prospective research. The workshop has been postponed to 11-13 February 2021. Updates will be published on this website or our newsletter. Please click here to subscribe to the newsletter. This is a closed … Continue reading Online Lecture: Antonis Hadjikyriacou (Athens), Ali Yaycıoglu (Stanford), Erik Steiner (Stanford) and Fatma Öncel (Stanford): Mapping Ottoman Epirus: Region, Power and Empire (Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis (CESTA), The University of Vienna, Department of Near Eastern Studies, November 26, 2020, @12:00-12:40 PM

This online lecture series is intended as a preparation for the workshop entitled Digital Humanities and Ottoman Studies.  State of the art, challenges, perspectives and prospective research. The workshop has been postponed to 11-13 February 2021. Updates will be published on this website or our newsletter. Please click here to subscribe to the newsletter. This is a closed … Continue reading Online Lecture: Kürşat Aker (Northern Cyprus) and Cemil Ozan Ceyhan (Istanbul): Muteferriqa – Ottoman Turkish Search Engine, The University of Vienna, Department of Near Eastern Studies, October 29, 2020, @12:00-12:40 PM