Friday, 3 May 2019 The Standing Committee on Medieval Studies and the Committee on Degrees in History and Literature invite contributions from Harvard College students of papers (fifteen to twenty … Continue reading Call for Papers: First Harvard Undergraduate Medieval and Early Modern Symposium
Mahindra Humanities Center, Persian and Persianate Studies: "From Shah Jahan to Nadir Shah: Sovereignty and Popular Politics in Mughal Delhi" Abhishek Kaicker is a historian of South Asia in the … Continue reading Harvard Lecture: Sovereignty and Popular Politics in Mughal Delhi
The Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa (ASMEA) is offering research grants up to $2,500 to PhD students, post-docs, and junior faculty (who are current members of ASMEA) for research related to any these topics: Minorities and Women Feminism, women’s rights, family law Christians in the Middle East and Africa Alevis, … Continue reading Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa (ASMEA) Research Grants
The sixth edition of the course "Arabic Codicology: The Islamic Manuscript Heritage in the El Escorial Collection" (June 17-21, 2019) will provide the students with the basic codicological knowledge and the research procedures needed to study and analyze Arabic manuscripts. Moreover, it will familiarize them with the libraries of the Arabic-Islamic world in medieval and … Continue reading Arabic Codicology Summer Course in El Escorial
The Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program is pleased to announce the Alwaleed Bin Talal Prize for Best Undergraduate Thesis in Islamic Studies. The prize recognizes students who make original contributions to current scholarly discourse on Islam and Muslim societies, past and present. The prize is open to Harvard College students in all academic … Continue reading Harvard Undergraduate Thesis Prize in Islamic Studies
This is a rare and potentially career-changing opportunity to become a senior-level executive, program ambassador, and collections expert at the Library of Congress. The Chief of the African and Middle Eastern Division is the principal expert at the Library in matters dealing with the 77 countries and regions from Sub-Saharan Africa to the Maghreb and … Continue reading Call for Applications: Library of Congress: Chief, African and Middle Eastern Division
ASPIRANTUM: Armenian School of Languages and Cultures in Yerevan organizes an International Persian Language Summer School in Yerevan, Armenia, to take place from July 7-August 17 (6 weeks) or July 7-July 27 (3 weeks), 2019. This 42- or 21-day summer school offers participants to master skills in written and oral modern Farsi, reading and interpreting … Continue reading Persian Language Summer School in Armenia
The Berlin-based Forum Transregionale Studien invites scholars to apply for up to five postdoctoral fellowships for the academic year 2019/20 for the research program. Europe in the Middle East—The Middle East in Europe (EUME) EUME seeks to rethink key concepts and premises that link and divide Europe and the Middle East. The program draws on … Continue reading Call for Applications: Forum Transregionale Studien: Postdoctoral Fellow, Europe and Middle East
The Harvard Law and Religion Lecture Series presents: "Islamic legalities across the longue durée: A preliminary historical epistemology of Islamic law" By Anver Emon, Professor of Law and History; Canada Research Chair in Religion, Pluralism and the Rule of Law; Director, Institute of Islamic Studies, University of Toronto Faculty of Law Anver M. Emon studies … Continue reading Harvard Lecture: Islamic Legalities Across the Longue Durée
