"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
Yerevan, Armenia July 15 - August 15, 2019 This intensive summer program will take place between July 15 and August 15, 2019, lasting four weeks. The program will consist of three parallel language courses – Armenian, Persian and Turkish – and a series of seminars devoted to topics in connected histories of Armenia, Iran and … Continue reading Summer School in Languages (Armenian, Persian, Turkish) and Connected Histories
The American University in Cairo is pleased to announce the launch of a Summer@AUC Islamic Studies Institute. It includes two four-week programs, each one conducted by international scholars of Qur'an, Hadith, Law, and Sufism, combining group lectures with Arabic language tutoring, primary source textual readings, and engagement with scholars in the field. Open to students … Continue reading American University in Cairo Summer Institute for Islamic Studies
The Committee on Medieval Studies will award one prize of $250 for the best paper on any topic in Medieval Studies by a student in Harvard College. Students in all concentrations are eligible for consideration. Applicants should submit the following materials by 5:00 on Friday, 3 May 2019: The student information form (available at the "Undergraduate … Continue reading Harvard Medieval Studies Undergraduate Essay Prize
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art is home to a highly significant collection of Islamic art. These widely diverse arts, from an area extending from southern Spain to Central Asia, trace the distinctive visual imagination of Islamic artists over a period of fourteen hundred years. This comprehensive collection consists of over 2,000 works. Reporting … Continue reading Call for Applications: Los Angeles County Museum of Art: Assistant Curator, Islamic Art
Ordering the Anthropocene: Law & the Environment in the Indian Ocean World 4-5th October 2019 Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA What can historians of law achieve from engaging with their colleagues studying environmental changes over time? How have emerging regulatory regimes (imperial, property-oriented, maritime, medical, etc.) joined the domains of science and law in new ways? … Continue reading Call for Papers: Law & Environment in the Indian Ocean World
The Department of History at the College of the Holy Cross invites applications for a full-time visiting faculty position to teach 6 undergraduate courses in Middle Eastern and North African History, 3 during the Fall 2019 semester and 3 during the Spring 2020 semester. These courses will include introductory surveys and thematic courses on the … Continue reading Call for Applications: College of the Holy Cross: Visiting Faculty Position, MENA History
Editing key texts of the Later Middle and Early Modern Periods of Islamicate Intellectual History This call for applications pursues a novel approach to one of the fundamental problems of Islamicate History, and Islamicate intellectual history in particular: With the support of the Alexander von Humboldt Kolleg of the Islamicate Intellectual History of the Later … Continue reading Call for Applications: University of Bonn: Fellowships for Editing Texts in Islamic Intellectual History
The History Department at Oklahoma State University invites applications for a full-time postdoctoral researcher position in medieval Middle Eastern history, to be held for one year and renewable for a second, beginning August 2019. Prior research focus is open within the period 600-1500 CE and the region of the Middle East. Ph.D. required at time … Continue reading Call for Applications: Oklahoma State University: Post-Doc, Medieval Middle Eastern History
Customizing the Sharia: Matrilineal Muslims and Islamic Law in the Indian Ocean Littoral International Conference Ashoka University, New Delhi 27-29 August 2019 in collaboration with InterAsia Program, Social Science Research Council, New York & HERA-Project: “Understanding Sharia: Past Perfect, Imperfect Present” University of Exeter (United Kingdom), Leiden University (the Netherlands), Gottingen University (Germany), and Bergen … Continue reading Call for Papers: Matrilineal Muslims and Islamic Law in the Indian Ocean Littoral
Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK) is a top Italian research institution based in the city of Trento. In the national evaluation of research excellence for the period 2010-2014 (ANVUR), FBK ranks at the first place for scientific excellence in ICT, History, and Sociology, as well as for economic and social impact. The foundation comprises 7 research … Continue reading Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Fellowships in Religion and Innovation
"Words Laying Down the Law: Translating Arabic Legal Discourse" 7-8 October 2019, Aga Khan Centre, London The Governance Programme at the Aga Khan University Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations (AKU-ISMC) invites papers in the disciplines of legal anthropology, law and comparative law, legal pragmatics, sociolinguistics and discourse analysis, politics and translation studies for … Continue reading Call for Papers: Translating Arabic Legal Discourse
MESA Mentoring Award: The award recognizes exceptional contributions retired faculty have made to the education and training of others. Nomination guidelines. Jere L. Bacharach Service Award: The award recognizes the contributions of individuals through their outstanding service to MESA or the profession. Service is defined broadly to include work in diverse areas, including but not … Continue reading MESA 2019 Mentoring and Service Awards
