The Middle East Beyond Borders Graduate Student Workshop aims to foster an interdisciplinary community of scholars working on the past and present of the Middle East. It takes as its founding premise the idea that the “Middle East” as an object of inquiry must fundamentally engage notions of boundaries, mobility and transformation. Our goal is to … Continue reading Middle East Beyond Borders Graduate Student Workshop
We are inviting advanced doctoral students and early career researchers in the area of Islamic legal studies, to apply to participate in the USPPIP Autumn School. USPPIP is a collaborative project of the universities of Exeter, Bergen, Göttingen, and Leiden. The project (running from 2016 to 2018) aims to explore how the past is employed … Continue reading Call for Applications: Autumn School: Uses of the Past in Islamic Legal Thought and Practice
Contributors are sought for an edited collection designed for undergraduate through first-year graduate students, under contract with publishers Taylor and Francis, that illuminates the many worlds of the Medieval Mediterranean, 470-1350. Contributors are asked to provide narrative essays accompanied by primary source materials, written and/or visual, illustrative of their argument, and meant to engage students … Continue reading Call for Chapter Contributors: Windows into the Medieval Mediterranean
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. The meeting is co-sponsored by the Sociology of Law and Justice Section of … Continue reading The RCSL-SDJ Lisbon Meeting 2018: “Law and Citizenship Beyond The States”
Lunch with current ILSP: SHARIAsource staff, fellows, and affiliates who will discuss their research and other work in Islamic law this year. By invitation only.
West Africa and the Maghreb: Reassessing Intellectual Connections in the 21st Century Thursday, September 13, 2018 Welcome Address 5.30-5.45 PM David N. Hempton, Dean of Harvard Divinity School HDS Faculty Grant Program Janet Gyatso, Academic Dean of Harvard Divinity School Keynote Lecture 5.45-7.00 PM Ousmane Kane, “The Transformation of the Pilgrimage Tradition in West … Continue reading Conference: West Africa and the Maghreb (Harvard University)
University of Oxford Faculty of Oriental Studies Post-doctoral Researchers in Qur’anic Studies (2 posts) Four-year fixed term contract Grade 7: £31,604 to £38,833 p.a., full time This is an opportunity for outstanding scholars to join the research project Qur’anic Commentary: An Integrative Paradigm (QuCIP), funded by the European Research Council and directed by Nicolai Sinai. … Continue reading Call for Applications: University of Oxford: Postdoctoral Researchers, Qur’anic Studies
The Alwaleed Islamic Studies Program is accepting proposals for early-career faculty grants to support workshops, symposia, or research projects during the 2018-19 academic year. Proposals must be of relevance to the study of Islam or Islamic societies. Applicants must be tenure-track Harvard faculty, either assistant or associate professors. For the 2018-19 academic year, the AISP … Continue reading Early-Career Faculty Grants in Islamic Studies
54th International Congress on Medieval Studies (May 9-12, 2019) The Association of Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies and the University of Louisville Medieval and Renaissance Faculty Working Group are collaborating to sponsor two sessions of papers to consider the role of Africa in the medieval world. Please see below for information on one session on … Continue reading Call for Papers: From Timbuktu to Kalamazoo
The Department of History at Stanford University seeks to appoint a tenure-track assistant professor in the modern history of the Middle East and North Africa, with an emphasis on the Arab world from the late nineteenth century to the contemporary era. Applicants will be expected to teach courses at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. … Continue reading Call for Applications: Stanford University: Assistant Professor, Modern History of MENA
