From the Center for the Humanities at Tufts: Center for the Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowships (General), 2021-2022 The Center for the Humanities invites applications for two general one-year humanities postdoctoral fellowships, beginning August … Continue reading Call for Applications: Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021-2022, Center for the Humanities at Tufts
Historians' show and tell: submit a proposal for Archival Kismet: A Conference for Historical Exploration by January 15, 2021. Created by Courtney E. Thompson at Mississippi State.
From the organizers: Zoom Registration Required: https://princeton.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwtfumvqjkrGtVqSXt_o7LyOWgfmPuoadT3 Princeton Qur’an Symposium April 9-10th 2021 Friday, April 9th Symposium Introduction Panel 1 – Qur’an, Hermeneutics and Power 10:00am -11:45 am Ash Geissinger ‘Rather, … Continue reading Princeton Qur’an Symposium: April 9-10, 2021
From the organizers: Dear CMES community member, We are looking forward to you joining us at Professor Fred Astren's Roundtable that will be taking place next Friday, April 9th from 11 … Continue reading Roundtable: Umayyads, Early ‘Abbasids, and Historical Periodization, The Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of California, Berkeley, April 9, 2021 @ 11:00 am – 12:30 pm PST
From the organizers: Arabic literatures are usually studied as purely creative products, a body of texts disembodied from their material life. Bibliotheca Arabica, in contrast, focusses on the context, the … Continue reading Webinar: Bibliotheca Arabica – A Digital Home for the Arabic Manuscript Tradition, Institute for Advanced Study, School of Historical Studies (Near Eastern Studies) and Digital Scholarship@IAS, April 14, 2021 @ 12pm
From the editors: We are pleased to announce the launch of a new journal, Journal of Late Antique, Islamic and Byzantine Studies (JLAIBS), https://www.euppublishing.com/loi/jlaibs, published by Edinburgh University Press. The JLAIBS as a hotspot for interdisciplinary … Continue reading Call for Submissions: New Journal: Journal of Late Antique, Islamic and Byzantine Studies (JLAIBS)
From the organizers: Speakers: Columba Stewart, Executive Director Catherine Walsh, Director of Cataloging Joshua Mugler, Curator of Islamic Manuscripts David Calabro, Curator of Eastern Christian Manuscripts Daniel Gullo, Director of … Continue reading Online Webinar: Research Methods Workshop: The Hill Museum and Manuscript Library, St. John’s University, Collegeville, Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program, April 22, 2021 @ 11 am – 1 pm
The ḥāshiya (gloss/supercommentary) is a characteristic literary genre of postclassical Muslim scholarship. In the field of Sunni Islamic law, the ḥāshiya became the central site at which the dominant teaching of each school of … Continue reading Webinar: A talk with Ahmed El Shamsy on the ḥāshiya
Articles should be between 5000 and 8000 words (excluding bibliography) and may be written in English, Spanish, or Italian. Articles should be accompanied by: a brief abstract (maximum length: 150 … Continue reading Call for articles: (Un)doing gender and migration stereotypes, About Gender (AG), April 30, 2021
