This multidisciplinary conference seeks to bring together researchers who have engaged in research on religious marriages in the Mediterranean. Papers may focus on, but are not limited to, one or more of the following themes: 1. Exploring the legal and social interaction between religious and civil marriages in the Mediterranean, whether contemporary or historical perspective … Continue reading CFP: Religious Marriages in the Mediterranean
Universität Hamburg, 11-13 October 2018 Call for Papers As the ERC project “The Early Islamic Empire at Work – The View from the Regions Toward the Center” nears its end, its final conference invites participants to consider the reach of the early Islamic Empire from the 7th to the 10th centuries CE. When we talk … Continue reading Conference Call for Papers: The Reach of Empire – The Early Islamic Empire at Work
The American Institute for Maghrib Studies (AIMS) is pleased to announce its Annual Grants Program for the 2018-2019 cycle: Submissions for the AIMS Grants Program for US Citizens are due January 31st, 2018. The program offers short and long term grants to U.S. scholars interested in conducting research on North Africa in any Maghrib country, specifically … Continue reading American Institute for Maghrib Studies: Annual Grants Program
The Abdallah S. Kamel Center at the Yale Law School for the Study of Islamic Law and Civilization invites applications for its 2018-2019 research fellowships. The fellowships are designed to bring promising junior scholars to the Law School in order to advance their academic research relating to Islamic law and civilization and to contribute to … Continue reading 2018-2019 Fellowship: Abdallah S. Kamel Center for the Study of Islamic Law and Civilization at the Yale Law School
Senior Fellowships are designed to provide senior scholars in the field the opportunity to spend an academic year, semester, or shorter period in residence at ILSP: SHARIAsource to research a topic of his/her choice. Successful applicants will be tenured professors with at least one published book. Please note that these fellowships are typically non-stipendiary, but … Continue reading Senior Fellowship at ILSP: SHARIAsource
The Perseus Digital Library Project at Tufts University is proud to host a 2018 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities Digital Editions, Digital Corpora and New Possibilities for the Humanities in the Academy and Beyond (July 16 – 27, 2018) will allow participants to spend two weeks exploring … Continue reading Digital Editions, Digital Corpora and New Possibilities for the Humanities in the Academy and Beyond
Call for Abstracts: 18th Annual Southwest Graduate Conference in Middle Eastern and North African Studies The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ March 22-23, 2018 Abstract Submission Deadline: Monday, February 5, 2018 We encourage abstract submissions not only from students within Middle Eastern and North African Studies programs, but also from Linguistics, Literature, German Studies, Law, LGBT/Queer … Continue reading Call for Abstracts: 2018 Southwest Graduate Conference in Middle Eastern and North African Studies (University of Arizona)
Apart from providing education opportunities at an international caliber as well as a wealth of knowledge and experience, Turkey also offers scholarships to outstanding international students from all over the world to study in the most prestigious universities in Turkey. Following the completion of the first round of applications for Türkiye Scholarships, the second and … Continue reading Türkiye Scholarships 2018 Second and Third Round of Applications
MESA invites submissions for its 52nd Annual Meeting, November 15-18, 2018, in San Antonio, Texas. All submissions within MESA's purview are welcome. Those addressing this year's theme are particularly encouraged. See CFP for details. All submissions must be made through the myMESA electronic submission system: https://mesana.org/mymesa/login.php by no later than Thursday, February 15, 2018 at midnight Mountain Standard Time, … Continue reading Call for Papers: MESA’s 52nd Annual Meeting
The Islamic Legal Studies Program announces the opening of applications for a Visiting Fellowship for ILSP: SHARIAsource for the 2018-2019 academic year. This fellowship provides opportunities for outstanding post-doctoral scholars and faculty from other institutions for research, writing, and scholarly engagement on Islamic law at Harvard Law School, in ways that further the broad Program mission. We welcome applicants … Continue reading Visiting Fellowship at SHARIAsource
The Julis-Rabinowitz Program on Jewish and Israeli Law at the Harvard Law School presents a lunchtime lecture with Professor Gideon Libson (Professor Emeritus, Hebrew University of Jerusalem): Gideon Libson is Professor Emeritus of Jewish and Islamic Law and Comparative Jewish and Islamic Law in the Faculty of Law at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He … Continue reading Common Roots, Diverging Branches: Dynamism in Islamic and Jewish Law
The Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University announces a scholarship in the amount of $2,500 for a Harvard undergraduate or graduate student who will enroll in a full time intensive Arabic language summer program in an Arabic speaking country. Absolute beginners will not be considered. Preference will be given to students who study … Continue reading Applications Open: A.J. Meyer Fellowship
Arabic Book Culture from Manuscript to Print Respondent Elias Muhanna Brown University
WOCMES Seville 2018 will be held in the capital of Andalusia on 16-22 July 2018, serving as a meeting point to present, debate and share a wide range of information on the latest studies concerning the Middle East, encompassing diverse perspectives, from conflict analysis and resolution to migrations, water, the environment, culture, news media and studies on … Continue reading CFP: Fifth World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies (WOCMES)
In partnership with the National Fellows Program, the University of Virginia School of Law is soliciting applications for outstanding junior scholars for the 2018-19 Charles McCurdy fellowship in legal history. The fellowship allows scholars to complete dissertations in legal history while in residence at the Law School, and the fellow will be expected to spend the majority of … Continue reading Charles McCurdy Fellowship in Legal History, University of Virginia School of Law
Call for Applications The Understanding Shari`a Project is organising an all-expenses paid summer school for the 7-14th July on the project theme of 'uses of the past' in Islamic Law, to be hosted by the University of Exeter. The deadline for applications is February 28th. Anyone in the final 18 months of their PhD, or within … Continue reading Uses of the Past in Islamic Legal Thought and Practice: Summer School 8th -14th July 2018, University of Exeter, UK
The Baldy Center for Law & Social Policy at the State University of New York at Buffalo plans to award several fellowships to scholars pursuing important topics in law, legal institutions, and social policy. Applications are invited from junior and senior scholars from law, the humanities, and the social sciences. Fellows are expected to participate regularly … Continue reading Fellowships: Baldy Fellowships in Interdisciplinary Legal Studies 2018
The editors of Law & Social Inquiry are pleased to announce our annual competition for the best journal-length paper in the field of law and social science written by a graduate or law student. Law & Social Inquiry publishes empirical and theoretical studies of sociolegal processes from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. Entries will be accepted starting January 1, 2018 … Continue reading Law and Social Inquiry’s 2018 Annual Graduate Student Paper Competition
Brown Legal Studies 2018 CFP Language is a conduit of information, a reflection of the social and political constructions of bygone eras, as well as our present. It can be deployed in the service of beauty, expression, liberation, punishment, control, and /or shame. Moreover, language, an essential tool of the law, is ordered and organized … Continue reading CFP:: 3rd Annual Legal Studies Graduate Conference: Law, Language and the Archive
The Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program at Harvard University is pleased to announce our annual conference on Islam and Toleration. This conference aims to explore the concept and realities of toleration in the Islamic tradition with a focus on contemporary work, from Asia and Africa to Europe and the United States. This conference is co-sponsored by Harvard … Continue reading Conference: Islam and Toleration
