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
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
"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 how might these new approaches encourage greater engagement with diverse scholarly voices and the public at large? Please register here: https://isnyu2019.weebly.com/ May 10th (Location TBD) … Continue reading NYU Conference: Contact and Convergence
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 Asia, trace the distinctive visual imagination of Islamic artists over a period of fourteen hundred years. This comprehensive collection consists of over 2,000 works. Reporting … Continue reading Call for Applications: Los Angeles County Museum of Art: Assistant Curator, Islamic Art
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
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
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
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
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
Customizing the Sharia: Matrilineal Muslims and Islamic Law in the Indian Ocean Littoral International Conference Ashoka University, New Delhi 27-29 August 2019 in collaboration with InterAsia Program, Social Science Research … Continue reading Call for Papers: Matrilineal Muslims and Islamic Law in the Indian Ocean Littoral
