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 … Continue reading CFP: Criminalising Violent Pasts: Multiple Roots and Forgotten Pathways 1950s-2010s
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 … Continue reading Call for Papers: “Whither Islamicate Digital Humanities: Analytics, Tools, Corpora”
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 … Continue reading The IX Islamic Legal Studies Conference, convened by the International Society for Islamic Legal Studies (ISILS)
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 … Continue reading Annual Meeting on Law and Society: Toronto 2018
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 … Continue reading University of Cape Town Course :: Muslim Marriage Contracts
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 … Continue reading Double Talk “Female Judges – Experiences, Successes and Challenges in Palestine and Germany”
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, … Continue reading Workshop: Uses of the Past: Islamic International Law and the Problem of Translation
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/), … 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 Deadline for Applications: June 30, 2018 The American Society for Legal History (ASLH) announces a new … Continue reading Johnson Program for First Book Authors -Sponsored by the American Society for Legal History
MESA is now accepting submissions and nominations for a number of awards. For students and recent PhD graduates: MESA Graduate Student Paper Prize and the Malcolm H. Kerr Dissertation Awards. … Continue reading Middle Eastern Studies Association: Call for Nominations and Submissions
