Name: Panel on Optical Character Recognition
Start: 2017-10-23T15:30:00-04:00
End: 2017-10-23T17:00:00-04:00
Location: Lamont Forum Room, Harvard University

October 2017

DUE: Assistant- or Associate-Level Faculty Position in Law and Legal Institutions in Muslim Societies

October 15, 2017

Stanford University Stanford, CA

Stanford University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor or a tenured Associate Professor faculty position focused on law and legal institutions of Islam and/or Muslim societies in any time period. The successful applicant for this position will be jointly appointed in the Stanford Law School and one of the following departments within the School … Continue reading DUE: Assistant- or Associate-Level Faculty Position in Law and Legal Institutions in Muslim Societies

Call for Papers: American Oriental Society 228th Meeting

October 15, 2017

Members of the Society are hereby invited to submit communications to be presented at the 228th Meeting. Deadline for submission is October 15, 2017. Note: The Program Committee will not accept papers for inclusion on the Program submitted by members who have not paid 2018 membership dues and pre-registration fees in full or who neglect … Continue reading Call for Papers: American Oriental Society 228th Meeting

Due: Assistant Professor – Study of Muslims/Islam in North America (tenure-track), University of Minnesota

October 15, 2017 @ 8:00 am - 5:00 pm

University of Minnesota-Twin Cities

The College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities and the Religious Studies Program invite applications for a full-time, tenure-track faculty position at the assistant professor level in the study of Muslims/Islam in North America to begin fall semester 2018 (08/27/2018). A Ph.D. in Religious Studies or other related field is required by … Continue reading Due: Assistant Professor – Study of Muslims/Islam in North America (tenure-track), University of Minnesota

Business History Seminar: Legal Change and Business Enterprise in the Middle East, 1850-Present

October 16, 2017 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm

Chao Center, Elaine Conference Room 300, Harvard Business School

Seven Agir, Middle East Technical University, Turkey, will present and discuss his work as part of Harvard Business School's Business History Seminar at the Chao Center.

ILSP FILM SCREENING :: A SEPARATION

October 16, 2017 @ 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Come see the film screening of the 2011 movie A Separation—about marriage, divorce, crime, and regret—directed by Oscar Award-winning director Asghar Farhadi (for the Salesman, 2017). A Separation won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2012, becoming the first Iranian film to do so. It also won the Golden Globe for Best … Continue reading ILSP FILM SCREENING :: A SEPARATION

CFP: Law at the Crossroads: Le Droit a la Croisée des Chemins

October 18, 2017

For thousands of years the place where the City of Toronto is located has been a crossroad where many peoples have met and had fruitful exchanges. According to some Indigenous knowledge keepers, the word “Toronto” comes from the Wendat term for a fishing weir constructed of sticks standing in the water. Lake and river fishing … Continue reading CFP: Law at the Crossroads: Le Droit a la Croisée des Chemins

ILSP LUNCH TALK :: Mapping Islam in Constitutions

October 20, 2017 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Austin 102 Austin Hall, Harvard Law School, United States

Dawood Ahmed, SJD Candidate, University of Chicago Dawood Ahmed will discuss his work on comparative Islamic constitutionalism.

COMPARATIVE INTERNATIONAL LAW WORKSHOP :: Colonialism and Constitutional Islamization

October 20, 2017 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Harvard Law School

Dawood Ahmed, Comparative Constitutions Project, University of Chicago Law School For Harvard affiliates only. RSVP to [email protected] for room location and paper.

ILSP LUNCH TALK :: RESURRECTING THE ANCIENT JURISTS IN PRINT

October 23, 2017 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Austin 102 Austin Hall, Harvard Law School, United States

Ahmed El Shamsy, Visiting Fellow, ILSP: SHARIAsource, Harvard Law School The publication of al-Shāﬁʿī’s (d. 204/820) multivolume magnum opus, al-Umm, in 1903-7 opened a window into early Islamic legal thought and provided the basis for all subsequent historiography of Islamic law. However, the work's publication was anything but inevitable: though it is today considered a … Continue reading ILSP LUNCH TALK :: RESURRECTING THE ANCIENT JURISTS IN PRINT

Panel on Optical Character Recognition

October 23, 2017 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm

Lamont Forum Room, Harvard University

Today’s scholars expect Optical Character Recognition (OCR) of texts in library collections. Despite expectations that all texts are equally discoverable, we know that countless handwritten manuscripts and documents in non-Roman fonts have neither been OCR’ed nor transcribed. Three esteemed Harvard colleagues will discuss OCR projects that promise to open up vast quantities of knowledge to … Continue reading Panel on Optical Character Recognition