Speakers: Benjamin Hopkins Ahmed Rashid Nilofer Sakhi Rory Stewart Title: Afghanistan: The End of a Forever War? Location: 11 am EST via Zoom Webinar on Thursday, September 21st. Zoom Link … Continue reading Webinar: “Afghanistan: The End of a Forever War?,” Tufts Center for South Asian and Indian Ocean Studies, September 21, 2021 @ 11:00 am
Western scholarship has focused on the monumental sculptures in Afghanistan's Bamiyan Valley as Buddhas created in the late sixth and early seventh centuries. This lecture tells an alternative story based … Continue reading Webinar: “Entangled Histories: The Bamiyan Buddhas-Past, Present, and Future,” The Harvard Art Museums, Wednesday, September 22, 2021 @ 7:00-8:15pm
For registration, please contact [email protected]. Zoom links will be circulated a day ahead of each lecture.
On Tuesday, September 28, the penultimate conference of the cycle that we dedicate to the sacred law of Muslims will take place with this presentation by Amira Sonbol, from Georgetown … Continue reading Conference: “‘Sharī’a and gender,” Institute of Languages and Cultures of the Mediterranean and the Middle East of the CSIC, September 28, 2021 @ 1:00 pm
Topic: When Politics are Sacralized: Comparative Perspectives on Religious Claims and Nationalism Description: Authors of the new edited book When Politics Are Sacralized (Cambridge University Press, 2021) reflect on how … Continue reading Webinar: “When Politics are Sacralized: Comparative Perspectives on Religious Claims and Nationalism” The Religion, Conflict, and Peace Initiative, September 28, 2021 @ 1:00 – 2:15 pm
From the organizers: This brief workshop will be conducted in two parts: Introduction of field digitization: The first half will serve as an introduction to the field providing an outline … Continue reading Workshop: Islamicate Digital Humanities Network (IDHN) Digitization Workshop, September 29, 2021
On Wednesday, September 29, the cycle that we have dedicated to "sharia" ends with this conference by Professor Francisco Vidal, from the University of Jaén. It will be at 7:00 p.m. on our YouTube channel . The … Continue reading Conference: “The ‘fatwa’ as a product and vector of Islamic legal culture,” Institute of Languages and Cultures of the Mediterranean and the Middle East of the CSIC, September 29, 2021 @ 1:00 pm
The University of Tennessee is receiving applications for a full-time, tenure-track assistant professorship of the History of the Modern Middle East (1500 to present) in the Department of History. The … Continue reading Position opening: Assistant Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History, University of Tennessee, Fall 2022
From the organizers: This annual exploratory and informal workshop offers the opportunity to reflect on history writing in Arabic. We encourage contributions focused on methodologies, research agendas, and case studies … Continue reading Call for Papers: Arabic Pasts: Histories and Historiographies, Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations, October 7-8, 2021
From the organizers: Historically speaking, gender has not been viewed as a relevant category of persecution in international criminal law, whereas victimisation on the basis of race, religion, politics, nationality … Continue reading Conference: “Adjudicating Gender-Based Persecution At The ICC & Beyond: A Monumental Step And The Challenges That Lie Ahead,” Northumbria University, October 7-8, 2021
