The Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC) at the University of Hamburg, Germany, is pleased to announce a workshop organised by Stefanie Brinkmann (Saxon Academy of Sciences and … Continue reading Hamburg Workshop on Ḥadīth Manuscripts
The Alwaleed Bin Talal Seminar in Islamic Studies brings experts from an array of fields within the field of Islamic studies to Harvard. These seminars are meant to bolster intellectual engagement … Continue reading Harvard Lecture: The Quran in the American Imagination
The Islamic & Middle Eastern Studies (TIMES) Forum invites proposals for individual papers on any aspect or sub-discipline of Islamic and/or Middle Eastern Studies for its 3rd Annual Symposium on … Continue reading Call for Papers: The Islamic & Middle Eastern Studies (TIMES) Post-Graduate Forum
An Introduction to Codicology and the Arts of the Book of the Islamic World Thursday, February 28, 10am-noon and 2-4pm Houghton Library, groups meet in lobby Places are limited. Please … Continue reading Harvard Workshop: Codicology and Islamic Book Art
The Dan David Foundation in collaboration with the Zvi Yavetz School of Historical Studies, Tel Aviv University, will award a one-year postdoctoral fellowship of $30,000 for the 2019-2020 academic year. The Dan David Foundation will give preference to candidates whose research focuses on the history of gender studies. Fellows will conduct their research under the … Continue reading Call for Applications: Tel Aviv University: Post-Doc, History/Gender Studies
The editors of Law & Social Inquiry are pleased to announce our annual competition for the best journal-length paper in the field of law and social science written by a graduate or law student. Law & Social Inquiry publishes empirical and theoretical studies of sociolegal processes from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. Entries will be accepted starting January 1, 2019 … Continue reading Law & Social Inquiry Grad Student Paper Competition
Criminal Law Developments in the Muslim-Majority Countries in the Light of Interaction between Shari’a and Law In response to a complex of internal and international factors, the judicial and legal structures of Muslim majority countries have changed drastically in the recent decades. Importantly, the experience of modern criminal law in the context of constitutional making … Continue reading Conference: Criminal Law Developments in Muslim-Majority Countries
Summary: In this workshop, researchers will learn how to organize, manipulate, and visualize their data. We will first focus on good data organization practices and use spreadsheets to tidy and wrangle several datasets. We will then manipulate, clean, and enhance our data in OpenRefine, a powerful tool for working with messy data. Finally, we will … Continue reading Harvard Workshop: Research Methods in Islamic Studies
Minority Families and the Law: Interactions of Ethnic, Religious, and Cultural Minorities with Law and State Institutions This workshop (to be held May 30-31, 2019 at the Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law in Spain) aims to investigate the interactions of minority families with law and state institutions from a socio-legal perspective, with … Continue reading Call for Papers: Minority Families and the Law
The Paris Institute for Advanced Study welcomes applications from high level international scholars and scientists in the fields of the humanities and the social sciences for a research stay of five or ten months, during the academic year 2020-2021. The Paris IAS gives its research fellows the unique opportunity to work freely on the project … Continue reading Paris Institute for Advanced Study Fellowships
