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
The three-day intensive course in Digital Islamic Humanities is intended for advanced graduate students and other qualified participants. It will be offered by Dr Maxim Romanov (Universität Wien) and will … Continue reading Course: Digital Islamic Humanities
This workshop takes place within the project Cultural Expertise in Europe: What is it useful for? (EURO-EXPERT) funded by the European Research Council and directed by Livia Holden. This workshop explores cultural … Continue reading Workshop: Cultural Expertise in Ancient and Modern History
The first day of the conference, July 5, will be themed. The theme of this part of the conference will be Historiography/Adab. The following two days of the conference (July … Continue reading Fifth Conference of the School of Mamluk Studies
As a global religion, Islam and its jurisprudence have offered heterogeneous responses to a range of questions facing different faiths and communities. Modernity imposed new questions upon religious scholars, theologians … Continue reading Conference: Sources of Pluralism in Islamic Thought
The American Society for Legal History will host a Student Research Colloquium (SRC) on Wednesday, Nov. 7, and Thursday, Nov. 8, 2018, immediately preceding the ASLH’s annual meeting in Houston, … Continue reading ASLH Student Research Colloquium Applications
