Application deadline: September 1, 2023. MESA’s Board of Directors has established a fund to subsidize travel expenses for graduate students who are presenting on the program at the MESA annual meeting. For 2023, we will issue approximately 50 US$500 grants or more if contributions to the fund extend beyond that. To be eligible for a … Continue reading Travel Grant: MESA 2023, September 1, 2023
The Section on Legislation & Law of the Political Process is pleased to announce a Call for Papers from which one or two additional presenters will be selected for a program on "Legislation, Governance, and Democratic Fragility." The panel will be co-sponsored with the Election Law Section and is to be held during the AALS … Continue reading Call for Papers: Legislation & Law of the Political Process, AALS, September 5, 2023
The University of Galway is looking to fill a three-year Postdoctoral Research position in Ottoman History for a European Research Council consolidator grant (BILQIS: Building Conceptual and Methodological Expertise for the Study of Gender, Agency and Authority in Islam). The application deadline is September 12, 2023. For application details, see here.
From MESA: MESA's Travel Grant program awards $500 grants to students and to precariously employed or contingent faculty who have no other institutional support to attend the conference. This year, we have received 140 applications from students and from contingent faculty/precariously employed. So that we can offer the maximum number of travel grants, the Board … Continue reading MESA 2023 Travel Grants for Graduate Students and Contingent/Precariously Employed, September 13, 2023
From the organizers: The open access journal Religions (ISSN 2077-1444) is pleased to announce a new Special Issue entitled "A Critique of the Modern Discourse of Maqāṣid". Dr. Mohamed Mosaad Abdelaziz Mohamed is serving as Guest Editor for this issue. The submission deadline is 15 September 2023 and papers may be submitted immediately or at … Continue reading Call for Papers: Special Issue of Religions: “A Critique of the Modern Discourse of Maqāṣid,” September 15, 2023
Deadline for Submission: September 15, 2023 Panel Sponsor: Islamic Law Section of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) The Islamic Law Section of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) invites submission of papers for its panel entitled Islamic Law and Constitutionalism at the annual meeting in Washington, D.C. in January 2024. The panel … Continue reading Call for Papers: Islamic Law & Constitutionalism, AALS Annual Meeting, September 15, 2023
From the organizers: Join us for a wide-ranging conversation on themes from Mohamedou's life around justice, faith, his 14-year imprisonment and the constructs that enable the continued existence of Guantánamo Bay Monday, September 18th 2023 12:30pm ET @ James Room East in Swartz Hall Hosted by Harvard Divinity School Muslim Association Questions? Contact [email protected]
Session 1 (20 September 2023, 18h CET) : New insight on the major Libyan tribes from the Antiquity to the Middle Ages, Ahmed M’charek (University of Tunis, Tunisia). Zoom link on demand at: [email protected]
Dear Friends and Colleagues, We are pleased to announce a conference celebrating the scholarship and teaching of Prof. Christopher Melchert, to be held at Pembroke College, Oxford, on Monday 25 September 2023. The program ranges broadly across Islamic law and piety and the study of the hadith literature and can be found below. If you … Continue reading Conference: Celebrating the scholarship and teaching of Prof. Christopher Melchert, Pembroke College, Oxford, September 25, 2023
Join us for a discussion and Q&A with Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah of the Supreme Court of Pakistan, moderated by Professor Intisar Rabb. This event is co-sponsored by the Harvard Law School South Asian Law Students Association (SALSA), Muslim Law Students Association (MLSA), and the Program in Islamic Law (PIL). Date: September 26, 2023 … Continue reading Discussion with Prof. Intisar Rabb and Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah of the Supreme Court of Pakistan, Harvard Law School, September 26, 2023
