From the organizers: Dear MESA Members and Annual Meeting Attendees, We had truly hoped to be able to meet in person in Montreal in late October, but conditions will not allow us to convene safely, effectively, and at our usual scale. The 2021 MESA Annual Meeting will instead be held virtually, November 29-December 3. We made … Continue reading 2021 MESA Annual Meeting, November 29 – December 3, 2021
The Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association (JOTSA) announces a call for proposals for “Digital Research Notes” on any aspect of Ottoman Studies using digital methods, to be included in a special issue on Digital Ottoman Studies (DOS) in Fall 2022. Since digital scholarship often advances in an incremental fashion, the special issue will … Continue reading Call for Proposals: Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association Special Issue on Digital Ottoman Studies
From the organizers: We invite submissions for an international conference on the language of kinship in Islamic(ate) societies before the modern period (622–1500 CE). The Embedding Conquest (EmCo) team has been investigating the social, political, administrative, religious, and economic ties that sustained strategies and mechanics of protection and dependency in the early Islamic empire, contributing to shaping imperial rule under the … Continue reading Call for Papers: Ties of Kinship and the Early Islamic Empire, 6-8 December 2021
From the organizers: Abstracts and research papers are to fulfill the following: -fiqhī or uṣūlī topics should address modern ethical concerns. -Papers addressing the ethical theory of a specific scholar should avoid delving into biography and restrict analysis to the ethical theory itself. -Papers on applied ethics should include a theoretical foundation on which the … Continue reading Call for Papers: Maqāṣid and Ethics: Foundations, Approaches, and Applied Fields, December 6-8, 2021, Doha, Qatar
By bringing together perspectives from legal, media, and literary studies, this hybrid round table will explore and discuss how Arab popular culture (film, television, and literature) imagines gender, law, and women in the legal profession. To participate online please register at https://bit.ly/30dAAbe. By attending the event you confirm that you have read and agreed to … Continue reading Discussion: “Law, Gender & Popular Culture Representations of Female Legal Professionals in Contemporary Arab Popular Culture” by the Arab-German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities, December 9, 2021 @ 8:00 – 10:00 am
For registration, please contact [email protected]. Zoom links will be circulated a day ahead of each lecture.
The Sharmin and Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies at Princeton University invites applications for a postdoctoral research associate or more senior researcher position(s) in the relevant fields of Iran and the Persian Gulf studies in the 19th - 21st century. Anticipated to start in September 2022, the position is open to … Continue reading Position opening: Postdoctoral Research Associate, The Sharmin and Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Center, Princeton University
From the organizers: Please join us for our next seminar of the virtual series entitled “Race, Race-thinking and Identity in the Middle Ages and Medieval Studies” A SEMINAR SERIES We aim to move beyond simplistic either-or binaries – race/not race, race/religion, race/ethnicity, US/Europe – to develop nuanced paradigms for racialization and its interaction, overlap, and interdependence … Continue reading Seminar: “Skin and Blood? Blackness and Arabness in Middle Eastern Perspectives by Rachel Schine (NYU AbuDhabi) & Peter Webb (Leiden University),” Princeton University, December 14, 2021 @ 12:00 – 1:30 PM
American Druze Foundation Fellowship at Georgetown University The Georgetown University Center for Contemporary Arab Studies (CCAS) is pleased to partner with the American Druze Foundation (ADF) to offer the ADF Fellowship in Druze and Arab Studies at CCAS. The purpose of the ADF Fellowship is to promote research on the Druze and Arab minorities with … Continue reading Call for Applications: American Druze Foundation Fellowship at Georgetown University
Unfreedom in the Premodern World: Comparative Perspectives on Slavery, Servitude & Captivity. Dublin, 23rd-24th June 2022 by Niall O Suilleabhain Unfreedom in the Premodern World: Comparative Perspectives on Slavery, Servitude & Captivity. Dublin, 23rd-24th June 2022 The global history of slavery and dependency has flourished in recent years, as scholars have deployed new theories and methodologies … Continue reading Call for Proposals: Unfreedom in the Premodern World: Comparative Perspectives on Slavery, Servitude & Captivity. Dublin, 23rd-24th June 2022
