The Centre for Interfaith Studies at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David is a forum that brings together academics and religious leaders to engage in critical reflection on interfaith studies and interfaith work. Following on from the successful Third Annual Lampeter Interfaith Symposium in 2018, we are happy to announce that the theme for … Continue reading Call for Papers: Practices of Justice in a Multi-faith Context
This international workshop is part of the ERC-funded research project "Problematizing 'Muslim Marriages': Ambiguities and Contestations." With "multiple materialities" we revisit and bring together two fields of anthropological research. On the one hand, we engage with a research tradition that investigates the conclusion of marriages as part of processes of production and reproduction. On the … Continue reading Multiple Materialities of Muslim Marriages
The Islamic Manuscript Association—in partnership with Cambridge University Library, the University of Cambridge's HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Centre of Islamic Studies, and the Thesaurus Islamicus Foundation—announces its thirteenth annual Cambridge-based Introduction to Islamic Codicology course, which will be held from 23 to 27 September 2019. This intensive five-day course will introduce the study of … Continue reading Cambridge Course: Introduction to Islamic Codicology
The Department of Middle East Studies at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles invites applications for a one-year post-doctoral fellowship in Middle East Studies. Researchers with training in Environmental Studies, anthropology, political economy, urban studies, and geography are particularly welcome to apply. This fellowship is renewable for a second year contingent upon administrative … Continue reading Call for Applications: University of Southern California: Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, Middle Eastern Studies
The Association for the Study of Persianate Societies (ASPS) calls for the participation of its members in its Ninth Biennial Convention, to take place in New Delhi, India, March 11-13, 2020. Our meeting will be hosted by the University of Chicago Center in Delhi. (Please note that you must be a current ASPS member.) All … Continue reading Call for Papers: Association for the Study of Persianate Societies Ninth Biennial Convention
The MIDA-project rests on the premise that digitisation and technological innovations have a tremendous impact on Islam, the effects of which are diverse and ubiquitous. They include first and foremost modes of expression and communication of religious messages and traditions and modes of engagement with society. Digitisation and concurrent innovations as they emerged in the past … Continue reading Call of Applications: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action: Early Stage Researcher, Mediating Islam in the Digital Age
This summer school is for graduate (MA and PhD) students and researchers who have an interest in handwritten materials, editing, and the tradition of editing in the Muslim world. It offers theoretical lectures as well as hands-on practice with samples from the world-famous collections of the Leiden University Library. Over the course of two weeks, specialists from Leiden … Continue reading Leiden Summer School on Philology & Manuscripts from the Muslim World
This summer course is for graduate (MA and PhD) students and researchers who work with manuscript materials in Arabic script and want to learn how to apply digital technology in their research. It includes both theoretical and practical sessions on digital encoding and editing of manuscript texts, data annotation, search, and visualization. Limited to 20 … Continue reading Hamburg Course: Islamicate Digital Humanities for Scholars in Manuscript Studies
Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Annual Meeting Civil Rights Section & Comparative Law Section (Jan 2-5, 2020 in Washington, DC) Civil rights law is increasingly globalized, as states around the world borrow from one another, and from international conventions, in defining the rights of individuals and groups to be free from discrimination and oppression. … Continue reading Call for Papers: Teaching Comparative Civil Rights Law
The Wallace Johnson Program for First Book Authors, sponsored by the American Society for Legal History (ASLH), is designed to provide advice and support to scholars working toward the publication of first books in legal history, broadly defined. In conversation with peers and with the advice of senior scholars, participants will learn about approaching and … Continue reading Wallace Johnson Program for First Book Authors
