The American Society for Legal History and the Institute for Legal Studies at the University of Wisconsin Law School are pleased to invite applications for the tenth biennial Hurst Summer … Continue reading Call for Applications: Hurst Summer Institute in Legal History
Come to the film screening of the 2011 movie A Separation—about marriage, divorce, crime, and regret—directed by Oscar Award-winning director Asghar Farhadi (for The Salesman, 2017). A Separation won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2012, becoming the first Iranian film to do so. It also won the Golden Globe for Best … Continue reading SHARIAsource Film Screening – Study Break :: A Separation
The American University in Cairo invites applications and nominations for the position of Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences.  The School of Humanities and Social Sciences (HUSS) is made up of nine departments: Applied Linguistics; Arab and Islamic Civilizations; Arts; English and Comparative Literature; History; Philosophy; Political Science; Psychology; and Sociology, Egyptology and … Continue reading Call for Applications: American University in Cairo: Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences
What is the Fellowship? The Salzburg Global Seminar is an independent non-profit designed to create future leaders. It runs the Lloyd Cutler Fellows Program, which brings together 55 of the nation’s top law students for a two-day program with leading academics and practitioners in the fields of private and public international law. The aim is … Continue reading Call for Applications: Salzburg Cutler Fellows in International Law
The Institute of lslamic-Theological studies is searching for a University assistant ("post doc"). We are a young team and are offering an excellent working environment, flexible working hours and good training opportunities. Duration of employment: 4 year/s Extent of Employment: 40.0 hours/week Job grading in accordance with collective bargaining agreement: §48 VwGr. B1 lit. b … Continue reading Call for Applications: University of Vienna: Postdoc, Islamic Theology
The Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Edinburgh is delighted to invite applications for one PhD scholarship in any area within its expertise. The scholarship will be funded by IMES and will cover tuition fees  for the PhD in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies. Applications for both the Scholarship and the PhD must … Continue reading PhD Scholarship in Islamic & Middle Eastern Studies at Edinburgh
Event Summary: This symposium focuses on relationship breakdown where there is no state recognised marriage. This may include couples in a religious-only marriage, those whose ceremony was conducted by a non-religious belief organisation, those who are cohabiting, or a range of other relationship types which fall outside of the ambit of a state recognised marriage. … Continue reading UK Family Law Conference: “Relationship Breakdown: Informal and Legal Solutions”
Princeton University seeks a collaborative, service-oriented subject specialist to shape & enrich its top-rated library collections and provide outstanding library services in the interdisciplinary field of Near Eastern Studies. This librarian is a key member of the area studies & humanities team in the Collection Development Department. Responsible for identifying & acquiring materials from & … Continue reading Call for Applications: Princeton University: Near Eastern Studies Librarian
The Weatherhead Initiative on Global History (WIGH) at Harvard University identifies and supports outstanding scholars whose work responds to the growing interest in the encompassing study of global history. We seek to organize a community of scholars interested in the systematic scrutiny of developments that have unfolded across national, regional, and continental boundaries and who … Continue reading Harvard Global History Postdoctoral Fellowship
Conference: 11-12 April 2019, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands In Muslim minority contexts, particularly in the UK and Europe, some of the prevalent discourses on religious-only Muslim marriages share an underlying assumption of a homogenous, legally recognised and culturally streamlined form of Muslim marriages found in Muslim majority contexts. However, this depiction does not represent … Continue reading Call for Papers: Muslim Marriages: Plurality of Norms and Practices
