Name: Symposium: Legal Orders under Pressure: Non-Western Experiences of Legal Transformations in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries, Max Planck Institute, December 7-9, 2022
Start: 2022-12-07T00:00:00-05:00
End: 2022-12-09T23:59:59-05:00

November 2022

Webinar: 14th Ulrich Haarmann Memorial Lecture: “Blessed Aristocracies: charismatic authority, rural elites, and historiography in Medieval Yemen (6th-9th/12th-15th c.)” by Zacharie Mochtari de Pierrepont, November 24, 2022 @ 11 am ET

November 24, 2022 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

On 24. November 2022, 5 pm (CET/time zone Berlin, Paris), Zacharie Mochtari de Pierrepont (Liège University/FNRS) will give a talk on: Blessed Aristocracies: charismatic authority, rural elites, and historiography in … Continue reading Webinar: 14th Ulrich Haarmann Memorial Lecture: “Blessed Aristocracies: charismatic authority, rural elites, and historiography in Medieval Yemen (6th-9th/12th-15th c.)” by Zacharie Mochtari de Pierrepont, November 24, 2022 @ 11 am ET

Call for Papers – Regulative Verses of the Qur’ān (āyāt al-aḥkām), Al Mahdi Institute, April 27-28, 2023

November 25, 2022

Call for Papers – Regulative Verses of the Qur’ān (āyāt al-aḥkām) The first of Al-Mahdi Institute’s International inaugural Qur’ānic Studies Conference offers a dynamic forum for scholarly dialogue on the … Continue reading Call for Papers – Regulative Verses of the Qur’ān (āyāt al-aḥkām), Al Mahdi Institute, April 27-28, 2023

Call for Papers: The 22nd Vagantes Conference on Medieval Studies, Harvard University, March 16-18, 2023

November 28, 2022

The 22nd Annual Vagantes Conference on Medieval Studies invites abstracts from current graduate students and recently graduated MA students from all disciplines for papers on any topic related to the … Continue reading Call for Papers: The 22nd Vagantes Conference on Medieval Studies, Harvard University, March 16-18, 2023

Beyond Nationality: Belonging and Empire in Ottoman North Africa, Youssef Ben Ismail, Harvard CMES Sohbet-i Osmani Lecture Series, November 29, 2022, 12:00pm to 1:30pm

November 29, 2022 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Beyond Nationality: Belonging and Empire in Ottoman North Africa Date: Tuesday, November 29, 2022, 12:00pm to 1:30pm Location: CMES, Room 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA 02138 The CMES Sohbet-i Osmani Lecture Series is … Continue reading Beyond Nationality: Belonging and Empire in Ottoman North Africa, Youssef Ben Ismail, Harvard CMES Sohbet-i Osmani Lecture Series, November 29, 2022, 12:00pm to 1:30pm

Book talk: “White Thinking: Behind the Mask of Racial Identity”, Lilian Thuram, Harvard CMES, WCFIA, WIGH and the Department of Sociology, November 30, 2022, 4:30pm to 6:00pm

November 30, 2022 @ 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm

Book talk: "White Thinking: Behind the Mask of Racial Identity" Date: Wednesday, November 30, 2022, 4:30pm to 6:00pm Location: Fong Auditorium, Boylston Hall, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138 CMES, WCFIA, WIGH and the … Continue reading Book talk: “White Thinking: Behind the Mask of Racial Identity”, Lilian Thuram, Harvard CMES, WCFIA, WIGH and the Department of Sociology, November 30, 2022, 4:30pm to 6:00pm

December 2022

Position opening: Assistant Director, The Roshan Institute for Persian Studies in the School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, University of Maryland, College Park, 2023

December 1, 2022

The Roshan Institute for Persian Studies in the School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, University of Maryland, College Park, seeks to hire an Assistant Research Professor to serve as the … Continue reading Position opening: Assistant Director, The Roshan Institute for Persian Studies in the School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, University of Maryland, College Park, 2023

Webinar: “The Responsibility to Protect and What it Means: The Case of Libya and Syria”, Basileus Zeno, Harvard CMES Middle East Seminar, December 1, 2022, 4:30pm to 6:00pm

December 1, 2022 @ 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm

The Responsibility to Protect and What it Means: The Case of Libya and Syria (on Zoom only) Date: Thursday, December 1, 2022, 4:30pm to 6:00pm Location: CGIS Knafel 262, 1737 Cambridge St, and … Continue reading Webinar: “The Responsibility to Protect and What it Means: The Case of Libya and Syria”, Basileus Zeno, Harvard CMES Middle East Seminar, December 1, 2022, 4:30pm to 6:00pm

Webinar: “The Second Formation of Islamic Law in Premodern Transoxiana: Evidences of Manuscripts” by Dr. Lola Dodkhudoeva, December 6, 2022 @ 5:00 pm

December 6, 2022 @ 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm

The collapse of the Timurid empire set in motion the complex mechanisms of a political reorganization of Eurasia and led to the emergence of new political formations. Among them, the … Continue reading Webinar: “The Second Formation of Islamic Law in Premodern Transoxiana: Evidences of Manuscripts” by Dr. Lola Dodkhudoeva, December 6, 2022 @ 5:00 pm

Position opening: Al-Qasimi Professor of Islamic Studies, University of Exeter

December 7, 2022

ADVERT: The Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter is seeking to appoint its Al-Qasimi Chair of Islamic Studies: Al-Qasimi Professor of Islamic Studies Job profile (exeter.ac.uk) The … Continue reading Position opening: Al-Qasimi Professor of Islamic Studies, University of Exeter

Symposium: Legal Orders under Pressure: Non-Western Experiences of Legal Transformations in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries, Max Planck Institute, December 7-9, 2022

December 7, 2022 - December 9, 2022

From the organizers: From the mid-19th century onwards, many regions underwent fundamental legal changes by following Western models. Countries such as the Ottoman Empire, Japan, China, Siam, Ethiopia were subject to … Continue reading Symposium: Legal Orders under Pressure: Non-Western Experiences of Legal Transformations in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries, Max Planck Institute, December 7-9, 2022