Name: HLS Bicentennial Panel: God on Mass Ave.
Start: 2017-10-27T09:00:00-04:00
End: 2017-10-27T10:30:00-04:00
Location: Wasserstein 2009

October 2017

Due: Assistant Professor – Study of Muslims/Islam in North America (tenure-track), University of Minnesota

October 15, 2017 @ 8:00 am - 5:00 pm

University of Minnesota-Twin Cities

The College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities and the Religious Studies Program invite applications for a full-time, tenure-track faculty position at the assistant professor level in the study of Muslims/Islam in North America to begin fall semester 2018 (08/27/2018). A Ph.D. in Religious Studies or other related field is required by … Continue reading Due: Assistant Professor – Study of Muslims/Islam in North America (tenure-track), University of Minnesota

Business History Seminar: Legal Change and Business Enterprise in the Middle East, 1850-Present

October 16, 2017 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm

Chao Center, Elaine Conference Room 300, Harvard Business School

Seven Agir, Middle East Technical University, Turkey, will present and discuss his work as part of Harvard Business School's Business History Seminar at the Chao Center.

ILSP FILM SCREENING :: A SEPARATION

October 16, 2017 @ 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Come see the film screening of the 2011 movie A Separation—about marriage, divorce, crime, and regret—directed by Oscar Award-winning director Asghar Farhadi (for the Salesman, 2017). A Separation won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2012, becoming the first Iranian film to do so. It also won the Golden Globe for Best … Continue reading ILSP FILM SCREENING :: A SEPARATION

CFP: Law at the Crossroads: Le Droit a la Croisée des Chemins

October 18, 2017

For thousands of years the place where the City of Toronto is located has been a crossroad where many peoples have met and had fruitful exchanges. According to some Indigenous knowledge keepers, the word “Toronto” comes from the Wendat term for a fishing weir constructed of sticks standing in the water. Lake and river fishing … Continue reading CFP: Law at the Crossroads: Le Droit a la Croisée des Chemins

ILSP LUNCH TALK :: Mapping Islam in Constitutions

October 20, 2017 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Austin 102 Austin Hall, Harvard Law School, United States

Dawood Ahmed, SJD Candidate, University of Chicago Dawood Ahmed will discuss his work on comparative Islamic constitutionalism.

COMPARATIVE INTERNATIONAL LAW WORKSHOP :: Colonialism and Constitutional Islamization

October 20, 2017 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Harvard Law School

Dawood Ahmed, Comparative Constitutions Project, University of Chicago Law School For Harvard affiliates only. RSVP to [email protected] for room location and paper.

ILSP LUNCH TALK :: RESURRECTING THE ANCIENT JURISTS IN PRINT

October 23, 2017 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Austin 102 Austin Hall, Harvard Law School, United States

Ahmed El Shamsy, Visiting Fellow, ILSP: SHARIAsource, Harvard Law School The publication of al-Shāﬁʿī’s (d. 204/820) multivolume magnum opus, al-Umm, in 1903-7 opened a window into early Islamic legal thought and provided the basis for all subsequent historiography of Islamic law. However, the work's publication was anything but inevitable: though it is today considered a … Continue reading ILSP LUNCH TALK :: RESURRECTING THE ANCIENT JURISTS IN PRINT

Panel on Optical Character Recognition

October 23, 2017 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm

Lamont Forum Room, Harvard University

Today’s scholars expect Optical Character Recognition (OCR) of texts in library collections. Despite expectations that all texts are equally discoverable, we know that countless handwritten manuscripts and documents in non-Roman fonts have neither been OCR’ed nor transcribed. Three esteemed Harvard colleagues will discuss OCR projects that promise to open up vast quantities of knowledge to … Continue reading Panel on Optical Character Recognition

COMPARATIVE INTERNATIONAL LAW WORKSHOP :: Consistency and Compatibility in Hybrid Lawmaking Structures: The Curious Case of Iran

October 24, 2017 @ 5:00 am - 7:00 pm

Harvard Law School

Maliheh Zare, SJD Candidate, NYU Law School For Harvard affiliates only. RSVP to [email protected] for room location and paper.

HLS Bicentennial Panel: God on Mass Ave.

October 27, 2017 @ 9:00 am - 10:30 am

Wasserstein 2009 Wasserstein, Harvard Law School

Apart from the constant of student prayer before exams, the study of religion and law has changed and evolved over the years at the law school. On one hand, faculty and alumni on the courts have long engaged the topic of church and state in U.S. constitutional law, making important contributions to doctrine and practice. … Continue reading HLS Bicentennial Panel: God on Mass Ave.