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 … 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 … 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
We are thrilled to announce the Call for Papers for our Fourth Biennial Conference on Iranian Studies, hosted by the University of Cambridge at St John's College on 9-10 April 2019. Deadline: 30 December 2018. We welcome proposals that engage with any aspect of Iranian studies within the arts, humanities, and social sciences. Subjects include … Continue reading Call for Papers: Symposia Iranica
The organising committee of the McGill Institute of Islamic Studies Graduate Student Symposium welcomes abstract submissions to their ninth annual symposium, to be held on 4-5 April, 2019 at McGill University. Our aim is to provide an opportunity for graduate students based in various parts of the world and approaching the study of Islamicate thought … Continue reading Call for Papers: McGill Islamic Studies Graduate Student Symposium
The European Conference of Iranian Studies (ECIS) is one of Europe’s largest conferences in Iranian Studies. It is held every four years and organized by the Societas Iranologica Europaea (SIE). The ninth edition of the conference will be hosted by the Institute of Iranian Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, in Germany, taking place from 9–13 September … Continue reading Call for Papers: European Conference of Iranian Studies
Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy is accepting applications for a Fellow for the Middle East. The Fellow will lead a research program focusing on women, human rights and refugee issues within the region. The position will be responsible for producing original, substantive, policy-relevant research to bring together diverse viewpoints addressing the issues of … Continue reading Call for Applications: Rice University: Policy Fellow, Middle East
The Faculty of Arts at the University of Alberta invites applications for a full-time tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor in Islamic Studies, with a starting date of July 1, 2019. Applicants must hold a PhD in a humanities or social science discipline with a research focus on Islamic Studies, or have a … Continue reading Call for Applications: University of Alberta: Assistant Professor, Islamic Studies
Sponsored by the Folger Institute Center for the History of British Political Thought The corporation was a foundation of medieval and early modern political, religious, and commercial life and a central feature of early modern European thought about overseas expansion. This seminar will trace the evolution of the corporation as an idea and an institution, … Continue reading Call for Applications: Spring Seminar: The Corporation in Early Modern Political Thought
