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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

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

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

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

Online Meeting: Comparative Legal History, 2020 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Comparative Law, October 15, 2020

October 15, 2020 Please note: All times are Eastern Standard Time. 11:00-11:10 AM EST OPENING OF THE ONLINE CONFERENCE Jennifer L. Mnookin / Dean and Ralph and Shirley Shapiro Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law Richard Kay / President of the American Society of Comparative Law Máximo Langer / Chair of the Annual Program … Continue reading Online Meeting: Comparative Legal History, 2020 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Comparative Law, October 15, 2020

Conference: “Comparative Legal History,” American Society of Comparative Law (15 -17 Oct | Boston, MA)

Boston University School of Law Boston, MA, United States

ASCL Vice President and Annual Program Committee Chair, Maximo Langer, has announced that the ASCL 2020 Annual Meeting will be hosted at Boston University School of Law, Thursday, Oct. 15, to Saturday, Oct. 17, 2020. The theme of the 2020 Meeting will be “Comparative Legal History”. As in recent years, concurrent panels will be open … Continue reading Conference: “Comparative Legal History,” American Society of Comparative Law (15 -17 Oct | Boston, MA)

Online Meeting: Comparative Legal History, 2020 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Comparative Law, October 16, 2020

October 16, 2020 Please note: All times are Eastern Standard Time. 11AM-1PM EST BUSINESS MEETING OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF COMPARATIVE LAW (only for ASCL members) https://tulane.zoom.us/j/93544244535 Meeting ID: 935 4424 4535 Join by SIP [email protected] Join by Skype for Business https://tulane.zoom.us/skype/93544244535   1:30-3 PM EST HOT TOPIC PANEL “COMPARATIVE LAW, COVID-19 AND RACIAL JUSTICE” … Continue reading Online Meeting: Comparative Legal History, 2020 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Comparative Law, October 16, 2020

Discussion: Archive Wars: The Politics of History in Saudi Arabia, Harvard University, October 20, 2020, @12-1:30pm

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 History, Harvard University The production of history is premised on the selective erasure of certain pasts and the artifacts that stand witness to them. From … Continue reading Discussion: Archive Wars: The Politics of History in Saudi Arabia, Harvard University, October 20, 2020, @12-1:30pm

Lecture: Maghribi Theology in Manuscript: Reason, Belief, and the Common Folk A lecture by Caitlyn Olson (Harvard University) and Jan Thiele (CSIC, Madrid), Harvard University & CSIC, October 21, 2020 @12pm

Maghribi Theology in Manuscript: Reason, Belief, and the Common Folk The history of Islamic theology in the Maghrib is an understudied field, due in part to the fact that many relevant sources remain in manuscript. This presentation will begin by addressing the contours of the manuscript archive and then turn to some of the major … Continue reading Lecture: Maghribi Theology in Manuscript: Reason, Belief, and the Common Folk A lecture by Caitlyn Olson (Harvard University) and Jan Thiele (CSIC, Madrid), Harvard University & CSIC, October 21, 2020 @12pm

Book Discussion: Fluid Jurisdictions – Colonial Law and Arabs in Southeast Asia, National University of Singapore, October 21, 2020, @10pm

ABSTRACT Fluid Jurisdictions: Colonial Law and Arabs in Southeast Asia newly released by Cornell University Press is a wide-ranging, geographically ambitious book that tells the story of the Arab diaspora within the context of British and Dutch colonialism, unpacking the community’s ambiguous embrace of European colonial authority in Southeast Asia. Fluid Jurisdictions looks at colonial legal infrastructure – … Continue reading Book Discussion: Fluid Jurisdictions – Colonial Law and Arabs in Southeast Asia, National University of Singapore, October 21, 2020, @10pm

Online Lecture: Süphan Kırmızıaltın (Abu Dhabi): Ottoman Text Recognition, The University of Vienna, Department of Near Eastern Studies, October 22, 2020, @12:00-12:40 PM

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: Süphan Kırmızıaltın (Abu Dhabi): Ottoman Text Recognition, The University of Vienna, Department of Near Eastern Studies, October 22, 2020, @12:00-12:40 PM

Online Roundtable: The Ḥawza and the Sharia, Columbia University, October 22, 2020, @4:00 – 6:00 PM

October 22: Sharia Roundtable: The Ḥawza and the Sharia Thursday, October 22, 2020, 4:00-6:00 PM Registration for this Zoom webinar is required. Register here. Join us October 22nd for our second Sharia Workshop of the term! In this workshop we will discuss the Sharia and the formation of jurists in the venerable ‘seminary’ institution of the Shi’ite … Continue reading Online Roundtable: The Ḥawza and the Sharia, Columbia University, October 22, 2020, @4:00 – 6:00 PM

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