From the CMES website: Date: Wednesday, November 15, 2023, 6:00pm to 7:30pm; Location: CMES, Rm 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA 02138 The CMES Disaster Studies Initiative is pleased to present Aleksandar Shopov, Visiting Scholar, CMES; Assistant Professor, History, SUNY Binghamton University. For more details, visit here.
Date: Thursday, November 16, 2023, 12:00pm to 1:30pm; Location: TBD Shahrad Shahvand, Alwaleed Bin Talal Postdoctoral Fellow Co-sponsor: Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and Persian and Persianate Studies Seminar, Mahindra Humanities Center RSVP here.
The Center for Middle Eastern Studies offers a study excursion to Tunisia in January 2024. This year's expected dates are January 2 - 19. A predeparture meeting for accepted students will be held during reading week. This three-week itinerary, based in the city of Tunis, focuses on thehistory and culture of Tunisiaand how they intersect … Continue reading Winter Excursion to Tunisia: Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University, November 17, 2023
Session 3 (22 November 2022, 18h CET) The emirate of the Banū Tellīs in the 15th c. CE, Zakia Elgoud (University of Benghazi, Libya) Link on demand at: [email protected]
Join us on Monday, November 27, 2023 at 12pm EST for a talk titled “Three Strikes and She’s Out: The Origins and Expansion of a Divorce and Remarriage Stipulation in Q 2:230” by Professor Lyall Armstrong. Abstract: Q 2:230 stipulates that if a man divorces his wife three times and then wants to marry her … Continue reading Talk: “Three Strikes and She’s Out: The Origins and Expansion of a Divorce and Remarriage Stipulation in Q 2:230” by Lyall Armstrong, Alwaleed Bin Talal Director’s Series, Harvard Law School, Lewis 214, November 27, 2023 @ 12:00 – 1:30 p.m.
From the CMES website: Date: Tuesday, November 28, 2023, 5:00pm to 6:30pm; Location: CMES, Rm 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA 02138 The CMES Disaster Studies Initiative presents Nasser Rabbat Aga Khan Professor and Director of the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture, MIT Nasser Rabbat is the Aga Khan Professor and Director of the Aga Khan Program for … Continue reading Talk: “The ‘Khitat’ of al-Maqrizi: Narrating History on the Tempo of ‘Kharab'” by Nasser Rabat, CMES, Harvard University, November 28, 2023
From the CMES website: Date: Wednesday, November 29, 2023, 6:00pm to 7:30pm; Location: CMES, Rm 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA 02138 The CMES Environmental Studies of the Middle East Speaker Series is pleased to present Samuel Dolbee, Assistant Professor of History, Family Dean's Faculty Fellow in Studies of the Middle East, Vanderbilt University Samuel Dolbee, Assistant Professor, Vanderbilt … Continue reading Talk: “Locusts of Power” by Samuel Dolbee, CMES, Harvard University, November 29, 2023
The Section on Comparative Law invites Nominations for the Mark Tushnet Prize in Comparative Law to recognize scholarly excellence in any subject of comparative law by an untenured scholar at an AALS Member School. The Prize will be given to the author(s) of a scholarly article judged to have made an important contribution in the field … Continue reading Prize: Nominations for the Mark Tushnet Prize in Comparative Law, AALS, November 30, 2023
Date: Thursday, November 30, 2023, 12:00pm to 1:30pm; Location: TBD Nicholas Boylston, Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Co-sponsor: Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and Persian and Persianate Studies Seminar, Mahindra Humanities Center RSVP here.
From the organizers: For most of recorded history, empires and imperial regimes have existed in one form or another and have shaped the lives of peoples of the Middle East. And yet the concept of Empire is o;en assumed to be clearly defined, almost eternal, even though empire took different shapes across history, including the … Continue reading Call for Papers: EMPIRE: In Theory and In Middle East History, American University in Cairo, December 1, 2023
