Call for Sessions: Mary Jaharis Center Sponsored Panel, 54th International Congress on Medieval Studies

To encourage the integration of Byzantine studies within the scholarly community and medieval studies in particular, the Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture seeks proposals for a Mary Jaharis Center sponsored session at the 54th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, May 9–12, 2019. We invite session proposals on any … Continue reading Call for Sessions: Mary Jaharis Center Sponsored Panel, 54th International Congress on Medieval Studies

CFP: Criminalising Violent Pasts: Multiple Roots and Forgotten Pathways 1950s-2010s

Over the last half century, discourses and practices connected to the idea that violent or dictatorial pasts should be marked as criminal have proliferated. A variety of actors – from victims groups to social movements, to expert groups such as lawyers, museums specialists and even economists – have contributed to the emergence and circulation of … Continue reading CFP: Criminalising Violent Pasts: Multiple Roots and Forgotten Pathways 1950s-2010s

Call for Papers: “Whither Islamicate Digital Humanities: Analytics, Tools, Corpora”

Call for Papers: "Whither Islamicate Digital Humanities: Analytics, Tools, Corpora" by Christian Lange International conference at the Royal netherlands academy of arts and scienCES, Amsterdam (NLD), 13-15 December 2018 Funded by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences & the Netherlands eScience Center Hosted by the “Bridging the Gap” project, Utrecht University (NLD), and … Continue reading Call for Papers: “Whither Islamicate Digital Humanities: Analytics, Tools, Corpora”

The IX Islamic Legal Studies Conference, convened by the International Society for Islamic Legal Studies (ISILS)

Universities of Helsinki and Tampere, Finland , Finland

The conference will be divided into two parts. In the first, which will take place in Helsinki on June 6, a keynote address and an invited panel of five speakers will present on “Islamic Law and the Relationship between Ruler and Ruled.” The keynote will be given by Frank Vogel (Harvard Law School), who will … Continue reading The IX Islamic Legal Studies Conference, convened by the International Society for Islamic Legal Studies (ISILS)

Annual Meeting on Law and Society: Toronto 2018

Sheraton Centre Toronto, Canada

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 Annual Meeting on Law and Society: Toronto 2018

University of Cape Town Course :: Muslim Marriage Contracts

University of Cape Town

This two-day course will unpack the legal implications of the Muslim marriage contract by considering: A brief historical context relating to the non-recognition of Muslim marriages in South Africa A synopsis of the legal implications of the non-recognition of Muslim marriages in South Africa An analysis of South African case law that recognises the Muslim … Continue reading University of Cape Town Course :: Muslim Marriage Contracts

Double Talk “Female Judges – Experiences, Successes and Challenges in Palestine and Germany”

This lecture will combine the talks of two experts on law and gender: Judge Somoud Al-Damiri (Palestine) and Prof. Maria Wersig (Germany) Since 2009, Judge Somoud al-Damiri is one of the first female Muslim judges working in sharīʿa courts in the Middle East. At the same time, she is public prosecutor in family law in … Continue reading Double Talk “Female Judges – Experiences, Successes and Challenges in Palestine and Germany”

Workshop: Uses of the Past: Islamic International Law and the Problem of Translation

The work­shop is orga­ni­zed as a coope­ra­tion bet­ween Prof. Dr. Irene Schnei­der, Dr. Nijmi Edres, Prof. Dr. Jens Hans­sen, Semi­nar für Arabistik/Islamwissenschaft, Göt­tin­gen Uni­ver­sity and Dr. Nahed Samour, Lichtenberg-Kolleg, Göt­tin­gen, Insti­tute of Advan­ced Study, in the frame of the activi­ties of the HERA pro­ject Under­stan­ding Sharīʿah: Past Per­fect, Imper­fect Pre­sent www.usppip.eu.

Open Call: Modeling Travels in History: an ORBIS-esque Hackaton

Everyone is familiar with Google Maps—all of us are using it on a daily basis. In 2012 a group of researchers at Stanford (led by Walter Scheidel), developed Orbis (http://orbis.stanford.edu/), which, one may put, applied the same geographical principles to a particular historical context. Dubbed “a Google Maps for the Roman Empire”, this model became … Continue reading Open Call: Modeling Travels in History: an ORBIS-esque Hackaton

Johnson Program for First Book Authors -Sponsored by the American Society for Legal History

Johnson Program for First Book Authors  Sponsored by the American Society for Legal History  Deadline for Applications: June 30, 2018  The American Society for Legal History (ASLH) announces a new program designed to provide advice and support to scholars working toward the publication of first books in legal history, broadly defined. In conversation with peers … Continue reading Johnson Program for First Book Authors -Sponsored by the American Society for Legal History

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