Name: Stanford Book Talk: Popular Sovereignty in Modern Islamic Thought
Start: 2019-05-24T11:30:00-04:00
End: 2019-05-24T13:00:00-04:00
Location: Stanford University

May 2019

Harvard Lecture: Race, Religion, and Revolution in Islamic West Africa since 1770

May 2, 2019 @ 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm

Harvard University Cambridge, MA

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: Race, Religion, and Revolution in Islamic West Africa since 1770

Harvard Medieval Studies Undergraduate Essay Prize

May 3, 2019

The Committee on Medieval Studies will award one prize of $250 for the best paper on any topic in Medieval Studies by a student in Harvard College. Students in all concentrations are eligible for consideration. Applicants should submit the following materials by 5:00 on Friday, 3 May 2019: The student information form (available at the "Undergraduate … Continue reading Harvard Medieval Studies Undergraduate Essay Prize

NYU Conference: New Contact Zones in Islamic Studies

May 10, 2019 - May 11, 2019

Methodologies, Technologies, Epistemologies: New Contact Zones in Islamic Studies This conference seeks to tackle questions on how might different disciplines approach the same vital social question: How does a well-established academic field integrate new technological and methodological approaches? And how might these new approaches encourage greater engagement with diverse scholarly voices and the public at large? These … Continue reading NYU Conference: New Contact Zones in Islamic Studies

NYU Conference: Contact and Convergence

May 10, 2019 - May 11, 2019

New York University New York, NY

"Contact and Convergence: An Interdisciplinary Conference in Islamic Studies" How might different disciplines approach similar central questions? How does a well-established academic field integrate new technological and methodological approaches? And … Continue reading NYU Conference: Contact and Convergence

Call for Applications: Los Angeles County Museum of Art: Assistant Curator, Islamic Art

May 12, 2019

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art is home to a highly significant collection of Islamic art. These widely diverse arts, from an area extending from southern Spain to Central … Continue reading Call for Applications: Los Angeles County Museum of Art: Assistant Curator, Islamic Art

Call for Papers: Law & Environment in the Indian Ocean World

May 15, 2019

Ordering the Anthropocene: Law & the Environment in the Indian Ocean World 4-5th October 2019 Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA What can historians of law achieve from engaging with their colleagues … Continue reading Call for Papers: Law & Environment in the Indian Ocean World

Call for Applications: College of the Holy Cross: Visiting Faculty Position, MENA History

May 15, 2019

The Department of History at the College of the Holy Cross invites applications for a full-time visiting faculty position to teach 6 undergraduate courses in Middle Eastern and North African … Continue reading Call for Applications: College of the Holy Cross: Visiting Faculty Position, MENA History

Call for Applications: University of Bonn: Fellowships for Editing Texts in Islamic Intellectual History

May 17, 2019

Editing key texts of the Later Middle and Early Modern Periods of Islamicate Intellectual History This call for applications pursues a novel approach to one of the fundamental problems of … Continue reading Call for Applications: University of Bonn: Fellowships for Editing Texts in Islamic Intellectual History

Call for Applications: Oklahoma State University: Post-Doc, Medieval Middle Eastern History

May 17, 2019

The History Department at Oklahoma State University invites applications for a full-time postdoctoral researcher position in medieval Middle Eastern history, to be held for one year and renewable for a … Continue reading Call for Applications: Oklahoma State University: Post-Doc, Medieval Middle Eastern History

Stanford Book Talk: Popular Sovereignty in Modern Islamic Thought

May 24, 2019 @ 11:30 am - 1:00 pm

Stanford University Stanford, CA

Book talk for Caliphate of Man: Popular Sovereignty in Modern Islamic Thought by Andrew March (University of Massachusetts Amherst). Comments by Mohammad Fadel (University of Toronto Faculty of Law). Modern Islamic … Continue reading Stanford Book Talk: Popular Sovereignty in Modern Islamic Thought