The 58th annual meeting will be held virtually November 11-15, 2024. The MESA 2024 Call for Papers will open January 10, 2024, and close at 11:59 AM (4:59 PM UTC) on February 15, 2024. Members organizing sessions for MESA 2024 may place an open call for participants. For more information, go here. Questions about the submission … Continue reading Call for Papers: MESA 2024, February 15, 2024
In collaboration with the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress, the Program in Islamic Law at Harvard Law School is pleased to invite applications for the 2024-2025 PIL–LC Research Fellowship (due: February 15, 2024). This newly offered fellowship is designed to provide an intellectual home to promising young scholars in Islamic legal … Continue reading PIL–LC Research Fellowship Application, 2024-2025, February 15, 2024
The American Center of Research is offering various fellowship and scholarship opportunities. The deadline to apply is February 15, 2024. Visit here for more details. The fellowships and scholarships include: ACOR-CAORC Post-Doctoral Fellowship ACOR-CAORC Graduate Student Fellowship S. Thomas Parker Memorial Fund Lawrence T. Geraty Travel Scholarship Jennifer C. Groot Memorial Fellowship Bert and Sally … Continue reading Fellowships and Scholarships: American Center of Research, February 15, 2024
From the Harvard University Center for African Studies: The Center for African Studies offers funding to Harvard undergraduate students traveling to Africa for thesis research, internships, volunteer work, or study abroad. Grants require a minimum stay of eight weeks in Africa. Grant awards range from $2,500 - $5,000 and are intended to cover otherwise unfunded costs … Continue reading Summer Travel Grants: Harvard Center for African Studies, February 15, 2024
From Ekaterina Pukhovaia at the Leiden University (see here): Dear colleagues, I am pleased to announce that this spring Leiden University will host the first round of a series of online talks about Yemen. The series, running from January 2024 till June 2025 and sponsored by the Horizon-2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions project EMStaD YEMEN, brings together experts … Continue reading Leiden Yemeni Studies Lecture Series: Reimaging Peacemaking: Gender, Diaspora, and Peace Democratization in Yemen, February 19, 2024
Session 6 (21 February 2024, 18h CET) Looking for Libya in Coptic-Arabic historiographical sources, Perrine Pilette (CNRS, Paris, France) Link on demand at: [email protected]
WED 21 FEB 2024 | 12.30-1.30 | via Zoom Event::Roundtable on Islamic Land Law The roundtable focuses on the transformation of the Ottoman land system in the 19th century, particularly examining the 1858 Land Code (Kanunname-i Arazi) and its impact on land laws in the Ottoman Empire's successor states. With case studies focusing on Bosnia, … Continue reading Roundtable: Islamic Land Law, Program in Islamic Law, Harvard Law School, February 21, 2024 @ 12:30 – 1:30 pm
The Anthony Lester Fellowships support lawyers or law students undertaking practical fieldwork in human rights/ the rule of law. The fellowships honour the memory and legacy of Anthony Lester QC (Lord Lester of Herne Hill), one of Britain’s most distinguished human rights lawyers. As a young lawyer, he twice visited the American South during the … Continue reading Anthony Lester Fellowships, 2024-2025, Bard College, February 28, 2024
The CMES Environmental Studies of the Middle East Speaker Series presents “Rivers of the Sultan: The Tigris and Euphrates in the Ottoman Empire” with Faisal Husain, Assistant Professor of History, Department of History, College of the Liberal Arts, Penn State “Rivers of the Sultan” offers a history of the Ottoman Empire’s management of the Tigris … Continue reading Talk: “Rivers of the Sultan: The Tigris and Euphrates in the Ottoman Empire” with Faisal Husain, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University, February 28, 2024
On March 2 from 12-4pm US EST at the Program in Islamic Law’s office in Austin Hall and via Zoom, our SHARIAsource Lab will lead a Hackathon: Arabic OCR Community Scribes event . Join us for a chance to help write the next chapter in the history of the Arabic script where we bring our … Continue reading SHARIAsource Lab :: Hackathon: Arabic OCR Community Scribes, Program in Islamic Law, March 2, 2024 @ 12:00 – 4:00 pm
