THE FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM: For summer 2019 (late June - early August 2019; dates to be determined in the spring), the American Research Institute in Turkey will offer approximately 15 fellowships for advanced students for participation in the summer program in intensive advanced Turkish language at Boğaziçi University in Istanbul. This intensive program offers the equivalent … Continue reading Summer Fellowships for Advanced Turkish Language
Formerly under the rubric of the Islamic Legal Studies Program, we now announce a revamped Program in Islamic Law at Harvard Law School and the opening of applications for Visiting Fellowships. The Program in Islamic Law at Harvard Law School invites applications for the 2019-2020 academic year. The purpose of the fellowship is to provide … Continue reading Program in Islamic Law at Harvard Law School Visiting Fellowship
Formerly under the rubric of the Islamic Legal Studies Program, we now announce a revamped Program in Islamic Law at Harvard Law School and the opening of applications for Senior Fellowships. The Program in Islamic Law is now accepting application for Senior Fellowships, which are designed to provide tenured professors in the field the opportunity to spend … Continue reading Program in Islamic Law at Harvard Law School Senior Fellowship
34th Annual Middle East History and Theory Conference The University of Chicago May 3-5, 2019 We invite proposals from graduate students, faculty, and independent scholars of the Middle East from roughly the first millennium BCE to the present day, whose research interests include but are not limited to: religious studies, history, geography, anthropology, political science, … Continue reading Call for Papers: Migration, Diaspora, and Movement of Peoples
May 30 - June 2, 2019 Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C. This year’s theme is "Dignity." Dignity embraces justice, rights, rule of law, respect for humanity and diversity as well as a commitment to human engagement, subjects that have been central in the law and society tradition. Dignity is a core idea … Continue reading Registration for Law and Society Association Conference
Brinkley Messick is Professor of Anthropology and of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies at Columbia University. He was the Chair of the Department of Anthropology from 2004-2011; was a founding co-Director of the Center for Palestine Studies (2010-15); and currently is the Director of the Middle East Institute. In 2009, he received the … Continue reading Princeton Brown Bag Lunch Series: Sharia Ethnography
Author: Faiz Ahmed, Associate Professor of History, Brown University Moderator: Mariam Sheibani, Visiting Fellow, Program in Islamic Law, Harvard Law School Respondent: Malika Zeghal, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Professor in Contemporary Islamic Thought and Life In Afghanistan Rising, Faiz Ahmed presents a vibrant account of Afghanistan, the first Muslim-majority country to gain independence, codify its … Continue reading Lunch Talk :: Book Talk on Afghanistan Rising: Islamic Law and Statecraft between the Ottoman and British Empires (Harvard University Press, 2017)
About the Program: Established in 1981 and formerly known as the Presidential Internship Program, the Presidential Associates Program (rebranded October 2018) at The American University in Cairo (AUC) provides recent university graduates who are American citizens or permanent residents the opportunity to work at the highest levels of an international university, experience life in Cairo, … Continue reading American University in Cairo Presidential Associates Program
Enslavement and related asymmetric systems of power are relationships that operate on multiple levels. These include, but are not limited to, the interpersonal, those negotiated within the social and cultural structure, linguistics, economy, and law. How systems of slavery are justified and maintained reaches deeply into the question of humanity. Institutions of slavery employ emotional, … Continue reading CFP for MESA 2019: Exploring Freedom, Emancipation, and Manumission in the Middle East
