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Call for Applications: College of the Holy Cross: Visiting Faculty Position, MENA History

The Department of History at the College of the Holy Cross invites applications for a full-time visiting faculty position to teach 6 undergraduate courses in Middle Eastern and North African History, 3 during the Fall 2019 semester and 3 during the Spring 2020 semester. These courses will include introductory surveys and thematic courses on the … Continue reading Call for Applications: College of the Holy Cross: Visiting Faculty Position, MENA History

Call for Applications: University of Bonn: Fellowships for Editing Texts in Islamic Intellectual History

Editing key texts of the Later Middle and Early Modern Periods of Islamicate Intellectual History This call for applications pursues a novel approach to one of the fundamental problems of Islamicate History, and Islamicate intellectual history in particular: With the support of the Alexander von Humboldt Kolleg of the Islamicate Intellectual History of the Later … Continue reading Call for Applications: University of Bonn: Fellowships for Editing Texts in Islamic Intellectual History

Call for Applications: Oklahoma State University: Post-Doc, Medieval Middle Eastern History

The History Department at Oklahoma State University invites applications for a full-time postdoctoral researcher position in medieval Middle Eastern history, to be held for one year and renewable for a second, beginning August 2019. Prior research focus is open within the period 600-1500 CE and the region of the Middle East. Ph.D. required at time … Continue reading Call for Applications: Oklahoma State University: Post-Doc, Medieval Middle Eastern History

Stanford Book Talk: Popular Sovereignty in Modern Islamic Thought

Stanford University Stanford, CA

Book talk for Caliphate of Man: Popular Sovereignty in Modern Islamic Thought by Andrew March (University of Massachusetts Amherst). Comments by Mohammad Fadel (University of Toronto Faculty of Law). Modern Islamic political thought is quintessentially characterized by the commitment to divine sovereignty in politics and legislation. But, even in the most theocratic of Islamist thinkers there … Continue reading Stanford Book Talk: Popular Sovereignty in Modern Islamic Thought

Call for Papers: Matrilineal Muslims and Islamic Law in the Indian Ocean Littoral

Customizing the Sharia: Matrilineal Muslims and Islamic Law in the Indian Ocean Littoral International Conference Ashoka University, New Delhi 27-29 August 2019 in collaboration with InterAsia Program, Social Science Research Council, New York & HERA-Project: “Understanding Sharia: Past Perfect, Imperfect Present” University of Exeter (United Kingdom), Leiden University (the Netherlands), Gottingen University (Germany), and Bergen … Continue reading Call for Papers: Matrilineal Muslims and Islamic Law in the Indian Ocean Littoral

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Fellowships in Religion and Innovation

Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK) is a top Italian research institution based in the city of Trento. In the national evaluation of research excellence for the period 2010-2014 (ANVUR), FBK ranks at the first place for scientific excellence in ICT, History, and Sociology, as well as for economic and social impact. The foundation comprises 7 research … Continue reading Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Fellowships in Religion and Innovation

Law and Society Association: Islamic Law and Society in Contemporary and Hybrid Legal Contexts

Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill 400 New Jersey Ave, NW, Washington, DC

This panel brings together a number of papers that examine the legal, political, and social dynamics surrounding the invocation or engagement of the Islamic legal tradition in the contemporary world. Papers explore contexts ranging from Iraqi Kurdistan, to Jordan, to England and the United States. Session Organizer Steven Boutcher, UMass Amherst Chair Nurfadzilah Yahaya, National … Continue reading Law and Society Association: Islamic Law and Society in Contemporary and Hybrid Legal Contexts

Law and Society Association: Book Talk on “Gender, Alterity and Human Rights: Freedom in a Fishbowl”

Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill 400 New Jersey Ave, NW, Washington, DC

The book interrogates the claim that human rights are axiomatic with liberal freedom. Revisiting human rights interventions on gender, and on behalf of sexual and religious minorities, the author exposes how such interventions have advanced neo-liberal agendas and new forms of imperialism, and enabled a carceral politics rather than produced freedom for their constituencies. Focusing … Continue reading Law and Society Association: Book Talk on “Gender, Alterity and Human Rights: Freedom in a Fishbowl”

Call for Papers: Translating Arabic Legal Discourse

Aga Khan Centre 10 Handyside Street, London, United Kingdom

"Words Laying Down the Law: Translating Arabic Legal Discourse" 7-8 October 2019​, Aga Khan Centre, London The Governance Programme at the Aga Khan University Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations (AKU-ISMC) invites papers in the disciplines of legal anthropology, law and comparative law, legal pragmatics, sociolinguistics and discourse analysis, politics and translation studies for … Continue reading Call for Papers: Translating Arabic Legal Discourse

Law and Society Association: Mobilizing European Law Against Racialization and Exclusion

Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill 400 New Jersey Ave, NW, Washington, DC

This panel investigates how racialized groups mobilize for dignity inside and outside courts. Passalacqua analyzes the transformation of UK migrants' dignity claims by courts and lays bare law's limits as a dignity-restoring instrument. Farkas probes the conceptions of dignity by European and US actors in the Transnational Roma Rights Network arguing that the transnationality of … Continue reading Law and Society Association: Mobilizing European Law Against Racialization and Exclusion

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