The BADR Project (7th-21st c.): A TEI-XML Analysis of Premodern Islamic Texts and Beyond Adrien de Jarmy, University of Strasbourg Zoom: https://bit.ly/JarmyTEI This lecture is free and open to the … Continue reading Workshop: The BADR Project (7th-21st c.): A TEI-XML Analysis of Premodern Islamic Texts and Beyond with Adrien de Jarmy, April 3, 2026
Amadu Kunateh (CSR), “Footnote to Ghazali: Philosophy Without Falsafa in West African Intellectual Archive.” Nicholas Judt (CSR) will respond. We will be meeting from 6:15-7:30pm in the Finnegan Room (Barker … Continue reading Workshop: Middle East Beyond Borders—Amadu Kunateh, “Footnote to Ghazali: Philosophy Without Falsafa in West African Intellectual Archive,” April 6, 2026 @ 6:15pm
On Tuesday, April 7, 2026, at 12:30-1:30PM US EST, Professor Sherman Jackson will be speaking on his book, The Islamic Secular. The basic point of the secular in the modern … Continue reading Islamic Law Speaker Series: Sherman Jackson (University of Southern California), “The Islamic Secular,” April 7, 2026 @ 12:30pm
The Global Academy Fellowship Applications for the 2026-2027 academic year is now open! The MESA Global Academy offers scholars of the Middle East from the MENA region who are currently displaced … Continue reading Fellowship: MESA 2026–2027 Global Academy, April 16, 2026
What counts as proof in an Islamic court? How does a judge rule between competing claims to truth? How does technological advancement impact notions of evidence? How can our understanding … Continue reading Roundtable: Knowledge in the Islamic Court, Program in Islamic Law, Harvard Law School, April 16, 2026
Djelemory Diabate (CSR), “Closing the Sufi Age: Authority, Finality, and Political Theology in Umar al-Futi Tal's Kitab Rimah.” Amadu Kunateh (CSR) will respond. We will be meeting from 6:15-7:30pm in … Continue reading Workshop: Middle East Beyond Borders—Djelemory Diabate, “Closing the Sufi Age: Authority, Finality, and Political Theology in Umar al-Futi Tal’s Kitab Rimah,” April 20, 2026 @ 6:15pm
Intelligence and Imitation: Mind, Mechanism, Mimesis Inaugural Humanities of AI Workshop Johns Hopkins University, April 24-26, 2026 As a creative aspiration, the Greek notion of mimesis (“imitation”) manifested not only … Continue reading Conference: Humanities of AI—Intelligence and Imitation: Mind, Mechanism, Mimesis, Johns Hopkins University, April 24-26, 2026
From the organizers: The 236th Meeting of the American Society for Premodern Asia will be held Friday, April 24, 2026 through Monday, April 27, 2026, in Los Angeles, CA USA. … Continue reading Conference: American Society for Premodern Asia Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, April 24–27, 2026
From the organizers: The Armenian School of Languages and Cultures – ASPIRANTUM is organizing a Persian language summer school in Yerevan, Armenia. The program starts on June 21, June 28, … Continue reading Language School: Persian Language Summer School, Armenian School of Languages and Cultures, Yerevan, Armenia, May 1, 2026
The 40th Annual Middle East History and Theory Conference (MEHAT) at The University of Chicago will take place on May 1-2, 2026. About the Conference. Since its inception four decades ago, … Continue reading Conference: 40th Annual Middle East History and Theory Conference (MEHAT), University of Chicago, May 1–2, 2026
