Name: Webinar: “Law and Religion Speaker Series – Power of Paper across the Indian Ocean,” National University of Singapore (Law)
Start: 2020-06-11T15:30:00+08:00
End: 2020-06-11T17:00:00+08:00
Location: Zoom

April 2020

Call for Submissions: “#Right2Left Workshop,” Digital Humanities Summer Institute

April 30, 2020

Although this year's Digital Humanities Summer Institute in Victoria, BC has been postponed until 2021, several of the workshops planned for the weekend between the two weeks are moving forward in virtual format. We put out a call for participation earlier this year for the #Right2Left workshop, focusing on digital work in cultures where some of … Continue reading Call for Submissions: “#Right2Left Workshop,” Digital Humanities Summer Institute

Seminar (Via Zoom): Nükhet Varlık on “Rethinking the History of Plague in the Time of Coronavirus,” Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program, Harvard University

April 30, 2020

Zoom

SEMINAR (VIA ZOOM): "RETHINKING THE HISTORY OF PLAGUE IN THE TIME OF CORONAVIRUS" BY NÜKHET VARLIK Date: Thursday, April 30, 2020, 3:00pm to 4:30pm Location: Please RSVP for Zoom link Nükhet Varlık, Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University - Newark and the University of South Carolina RSVP HERE

May 2020

Call for Editors: “Continuity and Change: A Journal of Social Structure, Law and Demography in Past Societies,” Cambridge University Press

May 1, 2020

Call for Editors: Continuity and Change Dr Chris Briggs and Dr Julie Marfany will shortly be coming to the end of their tenure as editors of Continuity and Change (C&C). Cambridge University Press is now inviting applications for their successors. The deadline for applications is 1 May, 2020. Now in its 34th volume, C&C aims to define … Continue reading Call for Editors: “Continuity and Change: A Journal of Social Structure, Law and Demography in Past Societies,” Cambridge University Press

Seminar (Via Zoom): “The ‘Spanish Influenza’ in Egypt,” Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program, Harvard University

May 6, 2020 @ 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm

Zoom

DIRECTOR'S SERIES LECTURE (VIA ZOOM): "THE 'SPANISH' INFLUENZA IN EGYPT" BY CHRISTOPHER ROSE Date: Wednesday, May 6, 2020, 3:00pm to 4:30pm Location: RSVP for Zoom link Christopher Rose, Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer at University of Texas at Austin Abstract: The “Spanish influenza” pandemic that struck Egypt in fall 1918 resulted in the death of eleven out of every … Continue reading Seminar (Via Zoom): “The ‘Spanish Influenza’ in Egypt,” Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program, Harvard University

Panel Discussion: “Regional Concerns In Pandemic Recovery,” Georgetown University Qatar

May 21, 2020

Panel 3: Regional Concerns In Pandemic Recovery The third panel in the series, moderated by Dean Ahmad Dallal, will investigate the types of global pressures that influence regional responses and how these set the Gulf and Middle East and North Africa nations on a path to pandemic recovery. Panelists: Rogaia Abusharaf, Professor of Anthropology Alexis Antoniades, … Continue reading Panel Discussion: “Regional Concerns In Pandemic Recovery,” Georgetown University Qatar

Webinar: “Islamic Religious Authority and Gov’t Responses to COVID-19,” The Medialine

May 21, 2020 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Date and time: Thursday, May 21, 2020, 2 to 3 pm Eastern Daylight Time (UTC-4) Register here. The Foreign and Comparative Law Webinar Series of classes is designed to shed light on some of the foreign and comparative law issues currently being researched by the foreign law and international law experts at the Law Library of … Continue reading Webinar: “Islamic Religious Authority and Gov’t Responses to COVID-19,” The Medialine

Seminar: Comparative Legal History and Legal Creativity, Professor Filippo Valguarnera, Stockholm University

May 26, 2020 @ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

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

Livestream: CMES Commencement Celebration, The Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University

May 27, 2020 @ 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm

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.

June 2020

Colloquium on Comparative Legal History: The Journal and the Discipline

June 10, 2020 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Colloquium on Comparative Legal History: The Journal and the Discipline Comparative Legal History, the journal of the European Society for Comparative Legal History (ESCLH) and a leading publication of its kind, offers an online colloquium on the present and future of this discipline. The following questions will be addressed, amongst others, What is comparative legal … Continue reading Colloquium on Comparative Legal History: The Journal and the Discipline

Webinar: “Law and Religion Speaker Series – Power of Paper across the Indian Ocean,” National University of Singapore (Law)

June 11, 2020 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm

Zoom

Topic Law and Religion Speaker Series - Power of Paper across the Indian Ocean Description Speaker: Dr Nurfadzilah Yahaya, Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore (History) Moderator: Dr Dian Shah, Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore (Law) About The Speaker Nurfadzilah Yahaya is an Assistant Professor of History at the National University of Singapore. Her … Continue reading Webinar: “Law and Religion Speaker Series – Power of Paper across the Indian Ocean,” National University of Singapore (Law)