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
This two day workshop aims to investigate questions of Islamic law and sexuality, broadly conceived, including but not limited to such subjects as il/legitimate sex, communal perceptions of sexuality, marriage, sexual violence, gender, concubinage and sexual consent. We are interested in shifting patterns of argumentation and in the formation of legal categories; how did pre-modern … Continue reading Islamic Law and Sexuality Conference 9th – 11th January 2018, University of Exeter
February 23-24, 2018 Washington, D.C. Harvard Law School is accepting applications for the 2018 Salzburg Lloyd N. Cutler Fellows Program. Up to five students will be selected to participate. The Salzburg Cutler Fellows Program brings together 55 of the nation’s top law students with leading academics, judges, and practitioners in the fields of private and … Continue reading Salzburg Seminar / Cutler Fellows in International Law: Call for Applications
The conference will discuss, among other topics of sociology of law and justice, the contribution of law to the power of citizens, at a time of increasing competition between state law, once the main source of people’s rights, and multiple global and local normativities. Proposals due January 15. The meeting is co-sponsored by the Sociology of … Continue reading The RCSL-SDJ Lisbon Meeting 2018: “Law and Citizenship Beyond The States”
The Law and Society Association offers awards for scholarship in the field of law and society. The award nominations are issued in the Fall of each year, and the awards are given at the Annual Meeting. Each award is funded by individual contributions. All prize nominations are now closed and late submissions will not be … Continue reading 2018 Law and Society Prize Nominations
The Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies promotes excellence in the study of Islam and Muslim societies. Applications are invited for the following Visiting Fellowships tenable for the 2018-19 academic year. Other non-stipendiary Visiting Fellowships are available for shorter periods and we accept applications on a rolling basis for these throughout the year. Applications are due … Continue reading Application: Visiting Fellowships at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies
Universität Hamburg, 11-13 October 2018 Call for Papers As the ERC project “The Early Islamic Empire at Work – The View from the Regions Toward the Center” nears its end, its final conference invites participants to consider the reach of the early Islamic Empire from the 7th to the 10th centuries CE. When we talk … Continue reading Conference Call for Papers: The Reach of Empire – The Early Islamic Empire at Work
The American Institute for Maghrib Studies (AIMS) is pleased to announce its Annual Grants Program for the 2018-2019 cycle: Submissions for the AIMS Grants Program for US Citizens are due January 31st, 2018. The program offers short and long term grants to U.S. scholars interested in conducting research on North Africa in any Maghrib country, specifically … Continue reading American Institute for Maghrib Studies: Annual Grants Program
