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.
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
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)
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 Succession Law in Islamic Countries titled “Covid-19: implications for the application of family law in MENA countries.” Family laws establish men as providers and partly … Continue reading Conference: Covid-19: implications for the application of family law in MENA countries, 1 July (virtual)
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
Field Research in the Middle East during and after the Pandemic The Crown Center for Middle East Studies at Brandeis University presents "Field Research in the Middle East during and after the Pandemic" A Virtual Crown Seminar with Peter Krause and Golnar Nikpour Wednesday, Oct 7 11:00am–12:00pm Register for Zoom login: https://brandeis.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_X4OoqEWyTvmUvVVwAQ0Arg The COVID-19 pandemic has … Continue reading Virtual Panel Discussion: Field Research in the Middle East during and after the Pandemic, The Crown Center for Middle East Studies (Brandeis University), October 7, 2020
Muslim Women Creating New Futures: The Campaign for Justice in Muslim Family Laws Posted on September 28, 2020 Oct. 7 | 11:00-12:30 EDT | Zoom A Harvard Worldwide Week event Register for the event here Please join us for a webinar that highlights the voices of Muslim women activists campaigning for egalitarian reform in Muslim family … Continue reading Zoom Webinar: Global Campaign for Justice in Muslim Family Laws: Voices from Southeast Asia, the Middle East and North Africa, and Sub-Saharan Africa, Harvard Law School, October 7, @11am-12:30pm
Nir Shafir: How to Read in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire The Ottoman Empire (and the Islamic world at large) was a manuscript culture until the late nineteenth century. That is, many Ottoman subjects continued to copy books by hand even though they had been aware of printing in European lands for centuries. In recent … Continue reading Virtual Event: Nir Shafir: How to Read in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire, The Humanities Institute (UC Santa Cruz), October 8, 2020, @12-1:30pm
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: M. Erdem Kabadayı (Istanbul) and Yekta Can (Istanbul): Urban Occupations OETR. Bringing Ottoman/Turkish History into Digital Humanities, The University of Vienna, Department of Near Eastern Studies, November 19, 2020, @12:00-12:40 PM
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 … Continue reading Discussion: Archive Wars: The Politics of History in Saudi Arabia, Harvard University, October 20, 2020, @12-1:30pm
