“A Colonial Muslim History of Qing Central Asia: Revisiting Sayrāmī's Tārīkh-i Ḥamīdī" — Eric Schluessel (PhD ’16), Assistant Professor of Chinese History and Politics, University of Montana Room S250, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street Inner Asian and Altaic Studies Lecture Series https://iaas.fas.harvard.edu/pages/iaas-lecture-series
Fortuitously, the 2019 annual meetings of the African Studies Association and the American Society for Legal History will both take place November 21-23 in Boston. In hopes of sparking a more sustained engagement across these two fields, and marking what we see as an inflection point in scholarship on African legal history, we invite paper … Continue reading Call for Papers: African Legal History Symposium
BRAIS 2019The Annual Conference of the British Association for Islamic Studies Monday 15th - Tuesday 16th April 2019 Teaching and Learning Building, University Park, University of Nottingham, NG7 2RD REGISTRATION FOR BRAIS 2019 IS NOW OPEN. CLICK HERE TO REGISTER. PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME All panels and plenaries will take place in the Teaching and … Continue reading Registration Deadline for British Association for Islamic Studies (BRAIS) 2019 Conference
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 the diverse and plural lived experiences of how Muslim … Continue reading Muslim Marriages: Plurality of Norms and Practices
The Alwaleed Bin Talal Seminar in Islamic Studies brings experts from an array of fields within the field of Islamic studies to Harvard. These seminars are meant to bolster intellectual engagement within the field of Islamic studies more broadly on the Harvard campus, and to allow students to engage with cutting-edge insights and scholarship on Islam … Continue reading Harvard Lecture: How Greek Logic Ascertains Islamic Law
"Al-Ghazālīand the Epistemology of Legal Analogy (Qiyās): How Greek Logic Ascertains Islamic Law" By Felicitas Opwis, Associate Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies, Georgetown University Location: William James, Room 1550
Friday, 3 May 2019 The Standing Committee on Medieval Studies and the Committee on Degrees in History and Literature invite contributions from Harvard College students of papers (fifteen to twenty minutes) in length in any discipline, dealing with any medieval or early modern topic. We particularly welcome papers that push against traditional boundaries in medieval … Continue reading Call for Papers: First Harvard Undergraduate Medieval and Early Modern Symposium
Mahindra Humanities Center, Persian and Persianate Studies: "From Shah Jahan to Nadir Shah: Sovereignty and Popular Politics in Mughal Delhi" Abhishek Kaicker is a historian of South Asia in the department of History UC Berkeley and currently a junior fellow at the Society of Fellows at Harvard. His primary scholarly interests lie in questions of … Continue reading Harvard Lecture: Sovereignty and Popular Politics in Mughal Delhi
The Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa (ASMEA) is offering research grants up to $2,500 to PhD students, post-docs, and junior faculty (who are current members of ASMEA) for research related to any these topics: Minorities and Women Feminism, women’s rights, family law Christians in the Middle East and Africa Alevis, … Continue reading Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa (ASMEA) Research Grants
The sixth edition of the course "Arabic Codicology: The Islamic Manuscript Heritage in the El Escorial Collection" (June 17-21, 2019) will provide the students with the basic codicological knowledge and the research procedures needed to study and analyze Arabic manuscripts. Moreover, it will familiarize them with the libraries of the Arabic-Islamic world in medieval and … Continue reading Arabic Codicology Summer Course in El Escorial
