This one-day workshop is held under the auspices of the USPPIP project (Understanding Sharia: Past Perfect, Imperfect Present) and will be hosted by the University of Exeter. The workshop will cover the specific focus of two elements of the project – violence (studied by Exeter USPPIP research team) and governance (studied by the Bergen USPPIP … Continue reading Governance and Violence in Islamic Law Workshop
Sharon Tai, SHARIAsource Deputy Editor and Ali Hashmi, former MIT Media Lab Fellow, use natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning techniques to build a taxonomy of entities for SHARIAsource’s collection of cases of Islamic law in U.S. Courts, including cases of family law and religious accommodation. From there, comparison of state courts with overall … Continue reading ILSP Lunch Talk :: Research Methods: Studying Court Narratives through Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing
A panel to discuss Professor Intisar Rabb's soon-to-be released book co-edited with Abigail Krasner Balbale, Justice and Leadership in Early Islamic Courts, composed in honor of Roy Parviz Mottahedeh.
Shady Nasser Assistant Professor, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University Professor Nasser teaches Arabic literature as well as Islamic Civilizations courses. He previous posting was as a University Lecturer in Classical Arabic studies at the University of Cambridge (UK), in the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies. Shady started his PhD at Harvard … Continue reading Twelver Imami Shiite Views on the Variant Readings of the Quran: Legal and Theological Implications
Rodrigo Adem, ILSP: SHARIAsource Visiting Fellow, Harvard Law School; College Fellow, Harvard University Department of History
The Near Eastern Studies graduate students at UC Berkeley would like to invite the graduate students of your department to participate in the 2018 UC Berkeley Near Eastern Studies Graduate Student Conference. Please find our full Call for Papers on our website (jagnesjournal.wordpress.com), we would greatly appreciate if you could distribute this to your department's … Continue reading UC Berkeley Near Eastern Studies Graduate Conference April 2018
JUNIOR SCHOLARS WORKSHOP The Law and Society Association is pleased to announce our Junior Scholar Workshop will begin mid-day on Tuesday, June 5, and continue through the day on Wednesday, June 6, 2018. The workshop immediately precedes the 2018 joint Annual Meetings of the Law and Society Association and the Canadian Law and Society Association … Continue reading Law and Society Association 2018 Junior Scholar Workshop
The myMESA electronic submissions system will be ready for your 2018 proposals on January 1. In the meantime, start planning for your 2018 panels and papers keeping in mind the theme, "Without Boundaries: The Global Middle East, Then and Now". If you are thinking about organizing a panel and want to call for participants consider … Continue reading MESA 2018 Call for Papers
Advanced notice: the First “Uses of the Past in Islamic Law” Summer School for Early Career Researchers, July 2018. In early January, USPPIP will open for applications from advanced PhD students and recently graduated PhD students/Post-doctoral researchers. The travel and accommodation expenses of all participants will be covered by USPPIP. Details in the next USPPIP … Continue reading USPPIP Summer School for Early Career Researchers: “Uses of the Past in Islamic Law”
EXTENDED DEADLINE: Announcement and Call for Papers Co-Organized and Co-Hosted by Kim Lane Scheppele (Princeton University), Jacqueline Ross (University of Illinois College of Law), and Jacques DeLisle (University of Pennsylvania Law School) Co-sponsored by Princeton University, the University of Illinois College of Law, the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and the American Society … Continue reading Annual Comparative Law Work-in-Progress Workshop: Call for Papers
