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Lecture by Sherman Jackson: Islam in America and the Ethnic Studies Paradigm, Department of History (Harvard University), November 20, 2020 @ 12:00 – 1:30 pm

Islam in America and the Ethnic Studies Paradigm Date: Friday, November 20, 2020, 12:00pm to 1:30pm Location: Zoom (RSVP Required) Part of the New Perspectives on Ethnicity and Migration lecture series Speaker: Professor Sherman Jackson, University of Southern California To register for the Zoom Webinar, please click here. To view the event poster, please click here.

Seminar: Sirat ‘Antar and Formation of Arab Tribal Identity in Mamluk Egypt by Yossef Rapoport, The Department & Program in Near Eastern Studies (Princeton University), November 23, 2020 @ 12:00 – 1:20 pm

Topic: NES Seminar Series #12 Sirat 'Antar and formation of Arab tribal identity in Mamluk Egypt Speaker: Yossef Rapoport, Queen Mary University of London Respondent: Marina Rustow, Princeton University _____________________________________________________________ Yossef Rapoport is a historian of the social, economic, and legal history of the medieval Middle East, and a professor of Islamic history at Queen … Continue reading Seminar: Sirat ‘Antar and Formation of Arab Tribal Identity in Mamluk Egypt by Yossef Rapoport, The Department & Program in Near Eastern Studies (Princeton University), November 23, 2020 @ 12:00 – 1:20 pm

Online Talk: Translating Islamic Law: Mobility, History, Solidarity by Iza Hussin, Centre for Ethics (University of Toronto), November 23, 2020 @ 12:30 – 1:45 pm

Translating Islamic Law: Mobility, History, Solidarity Translation encapsulates a series of distinct moves in the study of Islamic law, each with its own ethical and methodological implications. These implications are often obscured when we emphasise textual and discursive translation, at the expense of institutional and material processes. This paper discusses the work that translation does … Continue reading Online Talk: Translating Islamic Law: Mobility, History, Solidarity by Iza Hussin, Centre for Ethics (University of Toronto), November 23, 2020 @ 12:30 – 1:45 pm

Online Lecture: Ibn Iyās and his narrative voice(s) by Anna Kollatz, Annemarie Schimmel Kolleg, November 26, 2020 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am

On November 26, 2020, 4-5 pm CET (10-11 am ET), Anna Kollatz will speak on some aspects of her recent research on Ibn Iyās: Ibn Iyās and his narrative voice(s) In this talk, Kollatz would like to discuss my approach to Ibn Iyās as a historical author and a narrator on history. Though his Badāʾiʿ … Continue reading Online Lecture: Ibn Iyās and his narrative voice(s) by Anna Kollatz, Annemarie Schimmel Kolleg, November 26, 2020 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am

Call for Abstracts: New Methods in the Study of Islam, 30 Nov

New Methods in the Study of Islam CALL FOR ABSTRACTS   Methods play a notable role in the scholarly cognition of available data and shape (and even direct) scholarly productions. In the study of religions, methods also highlight possible connections between various traditions by utilizing a multitude of socio-cultural, anthropological, legal, textual and other disciplinary … Continue reading Call for Abstracts: New Methods in the Study of Islam, 30 Nov

Call for Applications: RomanIslam Center for Comparative Empire and Transcultural Studies Fellowships, 2021/2022

The Center for Advanced Study brings together scholars from a wide range of disciplines working on Romanization and Islamication in Late Antiquity with a focus but not exclusively on the Iberian Peninsula and North Africa during the first millennium CE. The overall aim of the Center is to explore new approaches to Romanization and Islamication … Continue reading Call for Applications: RomanIslam Center for Comparative Empire and Transcultural Studies Fellowships, 2021/2022

Call for Submissions: Harvard Law School’s Journal of Islamic Law, November 30, 2020

The Journal of Islamic Law is now accepting submissions for its Spring 2021 second issue. Submission types accepted include articles, essays, case briefs, student notes, book reviews, and data science reviews. All submissions will be subject to peer review. Visit the Journal of Islamic Law submissions page for all details and to register your submission. … Continue reading Call for Submissions: Harvard Law School’s Journal of Islamic Law, November 30, 2020

Conference: Race and the Middle Ages, The 46th Annual New England Medieval Conference, December 3, 2020

RACE AND THE MIDDLE AGES The 46th Annual New England Medieval Conference Virtual Meeting Thursday, December 3, 2020 Keynote Speaker: Geraldine Heng, The University of Texas at Austin, “The Politics of Race in the European Middle Ages” With the world-wide resurgence of anti-racist activism following the killing of George Floyd, we as medievalists feel compelled to reexamine notions of … Continue reading Conference: Race and the Middle Ages, The 46th Annual New England Medieval Conference, December 3, 2020

Online Lecture: Nil Tuzcu (Cambridge, MA): Istanbul Urban Database, The University of Vienna, Department of Near Eastern Studies, December 3, 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: Nil Tuzcu (Cambridge, MA): Istanbul Urban Database, The University of Vienna, Department of Near Eastern Studies, December 3, 2020, @12:00-12:40 PM

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