The Middle East Beyond Borders Graduate Student Workshop aims to foster an interdisciplinary community of scholars working on the past and present of the Middle East. It takes as its founding premise the idea that the “Middle East” as an object of inquiry must fundamentally engage notions of boundaries, mobility and transformation. Our goal is to … Continue reading Middle East Beyond Borders Graduate Student Workshop
Sunday, October 28, 2018 (Betts Auditorium, Architecture Building, N101) 4:30 PM Keynote Address - “The Contested History of American Religious Freedom" Tisa Wenger, Yale University Monday, October 29, 2018 (301 Marx Hall) 9:30 AM Conference Panel Mohamed Fadel, University of Toronto, Faculty of Law Gustavo Maya, Princeton University Nomi Stolzenberg, University … Continue reading Conceptions of Law: Between “Theology” and Positive Law
The Department of Art at Wellesley College (http://www.wellesley.edu/art) invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor specializing in the art, architecture, and/or material culture of the Islamic world before 1500. The successful candidate will develop a curriculum attentive to the intersections of Islamicate arts with the arts of the Western Medieval and Byzantine worlds. We seek … Continue reading Call for Applications: Wellesley College: Assistant Professor, Islamic Art
A collaborative workshop by the Institute of Ismaili Studies in London and the Law, Authority and Learning in Imami Shiite Islam (LAWALISI) Project at the University of Exeter. See a list of speakers and topics here. The workshop is free to attend, but places are limited. Pre-registration is required. To register, please email lawalisi@exeter.ac.uk before … Continue reading Workshop: Ḥadīth, Law and Theology in Early Shiʿīte Islam (London)
Members of this Lab are students interested in assessing the way Islamic law functions in contemporary and historical contexts, and interested in building or testing new apps for the same. Each Lab member will work on a discrete research project in a collaborative, interactive setting. Access restricted to Lab members.
The Sharmin and Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies at Princeton University invites applications for a postdoctoral or more senior research position in the history, politics, economics, religion, and/or culture of Iran and the Persian Gulf region in the 20th and/or 21st century, starting in September 2019. This full-time twelve-month position may … Continue reading Call for Applications: Princeton University: Postdoctoral Researcher, Modern Iran
We are pleased to announce the Sixth Conference of the School of Mamluk Studies which will be held at Waseda University in Tokyo from June 15 to 17, 2019. The conference will be conducted in two parts, and will be preceded by a three-day intensive course on Mamluk archival material from June 12 to 14, 2019, to be … Continue reading Call for Papers: School of Mamluk Studies, Tokyo Conference
Submissions are solicited for a one-day symposium on "The Qurʾān and Ethiopia: Context and Reception," which will be held at The Catholic University of America (Washington, DC) on Monday, April 8, 2019. Connections between the Qurʾān and Ethiopia are vast and varied. On the one hand, Ethiopia provides an important historical context (among many others) … Continue reading Call for Papers: The Qurʾān and Ethiopia: Context and Reception
The Institute on the Formation of Knowledge at the University of Chicago invites applications for two-year Postdoctoral Researchers at the Rank of Instructor, to begin on July 1, 2019. Postdocs will join a community of leading scholars from across the university to study the process of knowledge formation and transmittal from antiquity to the present … Continue reading Call for Applications: University of Chicago: Postdoctoral Researcher, History of Knowledge
Rare Book School’s Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography invites applications for its (2019-2020) fellowship cohort. The deadline is November 1, 2018. Continuing the work of the Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in Critical Bibliography (2012–17), this scholarly society works to advance the study of texts, images, and artifacts as material objects through … Continue reading Mellon Fellowships in Critical Bibliography
The Department of History at Boise State University invites applications for a tenure-track position beginning August 2019. We seek to appoint a faculty member with expertise in Middle Eastern History. All research specializations, geographic areas, and secondary fields will be considered. A strong commitment to teaching and evidence of scholarly potential are expected. The successful … Continue reading Call for Applications: Boise State University: Assistant Professor, Middle Eastern History
The Department of International Studies at American University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates seeks a full-time faculty member specializing in Middle Eastern and World History beginning in Fall 2019. Candidates must be willing to teach a range of courses in their field as well as survey courses in world history. The ability to … Continue reading Call for Applications: American University of Sharjah: Professor, Middle Eastern History
The American Research Institute in Turkey (ARIT) is pleased to announce 2019-2020 fellowship programs for students and scholars based in the U.S. and Canada: ARIT / National Endowment for the Humanities Advanced Fellowships for Research in Turkey cover all fields of the humanities, including prehistory, history, art, archaeology, literature, and linguistics as well as interdisciplinary … Continue reading American Research Institute in Turkey (ARIT) Fellowships
We are pleased to invite you to participate in the Annual Meeting on Law and Society! May 30-June 2, 2019 in Washington, DC This year’s theme is: Dignity Dignity embraces justice, rights, rule of law, respect for humanity and diversity as well as a commitment to human engagement, subjects that have been central in the … Continue reading Call for Papers: Law and Society Association (LSA) Conference
This session's date is TBD. Panelists will include Raha Rafii, PhD Candidate in the Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations department at UPenn, Amir Toft, PhD candidate at the University of Chicago and research fellow at Yale Law School, and Intisar Rabb, Professor of Law and History at Harvard Law School and Harvard University.
All those attending the 2018 American Society for Legal History conference in Houston are welcome to pre-register for the pre-conference workshop on teaching legal history held in the conference hotel on Thurs, Nov 8 from 11-4 pm. 30 participants will have an opportunity to share their own challenges and successes in dialogue with workshop facilitators … Continue reading ASLH Pre-conference Workshop on Teaching Legal History
The Harvard University Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) and the Committee on Medieval Studies present the Inaugural Joint Lecture in Medieval Eastern Studies: "Kingdoms of Faith – Writing a New History of Islamic Spain" featuring Brian Catlos, Professor of Religious Studies at University of Colorado, Boulder
Fifty years after Marshall Hodgson and the Idea of a Discernible Islamic Civilization Symposium sponsored by the Abdallah S. Kamel Center for the Study of Islamic Law and Civilization Yale Law School, Room 129 9:30 am – 12:00 pm The interaction of Islam with other traditions, cultures, religions and civilizations Ahmed El-Shamsy, University of Chicago … Continue reading Conference: Islamic Civilization (Yale Law School)
The conference brings together the disciplines of law, anthropology and Islamic studies, with all of their multiple entanglements. Conference papers address field observation, as well as methods and theories that provide insights into norms that are often given Islamic justification. The discussion will range from the traditional domain of family-related regulations regarding commercial transactions to … Continue reading Conference: Law, Islam and Anthropology
A workshop organized by the Law, Authority and Learning in Imami Shiite Islam (LAWALISI) Project at the University of Exeter. See a list of speakers and topics here. To register, please email lawalisi@exeter.ac.uk.
On March 17th and 18th, 2019, Georgetown University in Qatar is proud to host an international, multidisciplinary conference with the aim of bringing together scholars involved in research on Islamic intellectual thought between the 16th and 18th centuries. The Organizing Committee for the 2019 Transformations and Continuities in Islamic Intellectual Thought Conference is now accepting … Continue reading Call for Papers: Transformations and Continuities in Islamic Intellectual Thought
The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents And God knows best Scientific expertise, piety and Islamic legal opinions Ahmed Ragab Richard T. Watson Associate Professor of Science and Religion, Harvard Divinity School Ahmed Ragab is the Richard T. Watson Associate Professor of Science and Religion at Harvard Divinity School, affiliate associate professor at the department … Continue reading Lecture at Harvard: Scientific Expertise, Piety and Islamic Legal Opinions
Held at the University of Exeter (UK) from June 27th to 29th, 2019, the theme for the 16th annual conference is "The Globality of Central Asia." We invite proposals for papers, panels, roundtables and sessions in non-traditional formats covering all aspects of Central Asian Studies across the humanities and social sciences. We particularly encourage proposals … Continue reading Call for Papers: European Society for Central Asian Studies Conference
Since 1967, MESA has held an annual meeting in the fall where members gather to share research. MESA has been the hub for scholarly exchange from its first meeting at The University of Chicago in 1967 where a small group gathered for eight sessions to MESA's 50th anniversary meeting in Boston in 2016 where 312 … Continue reading Middle East Studies Association (MESA) 2018 Annual Meeting
The Research Institute for Criminal Law and Criminology at the University of Tehran is inviting abstracts for an international conference on “Criminal Law Developments in the Muslim-Majority Countries in the Light of Interaction between Shari’a and Law,” to be held on March 5th & 6th, 2019. The judicial and legal structures of Muslim-majority countries have changed drastically in … Continue reading Call for Papers: Criminal Law Developments in Muslim-Majority Countries
The University of Wisconsin Madison is seeking to hire a faculty member to conduct research and teach courses in gender/women’s studies as it relates to the contemporary Middle East and North Africa, with a preference for the Arab Middle East. Preference will be given to applicants with area expertise who conduct research using Middle East … Continue reading Call for Applications: University of Wisconsin–Madison: Assistant Professor, Gender in the Middle East
The Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University announces the 2019-20 Call for Applications for our Fellows-in-Residence Program. Application deadline: November 15, 2018 The Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University invites applications from a broad range of researchers and practitioners who will work over the course of the year on … Continue reading Call for Applications: Harvard Center for Ethics Fellowships
Hampden-Sydney College, Department of History, invites applications for a tenure-track full-time position in Islamic World or Middle Eastern history prior to 1600, with a preference for medieval history. Subfields and specialties are open, though candidates with an interest in the history of Islam and/or trade and commerce are particularly encouraged to apply. Teaching responsibilities include a … Continue reading Call for Applications: Hampden-Sydney College: Assistant Professor, Islamic History
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences at the American University of Beirut is seeking an outstanding internationally-established scholar to fill the distinguished Sheikh Zayid Chair of Arabic and Islamic Studies at the level of Associate or Full Professor, to begin on August 15, 2019. Candidates for the Sheikh Zayid Chair are required to have made … Continue reading Call for Applications: American University of Beirut: Chair, Arabic and Islamic Studies
Do you know of any collections that are currently at risk and need preserving? The Endangered Archives Programme is now accepting preliminary applications for the next annual funding round – the deadline for submission of preliminary applications is 12 noon 19 November 2018 (GMT) and full details of the application procedures and documentation are available … Continue reading Call for Applications: Endangered Archives Programme
Held in central London, this conference will raise key issues surrounding religious arbitration, the veil and gender segregation at schools and universities, including as part of the religious-Right's assault on women's rights. It will also highlight the voices of people on the frontlines of resistance, the gains made by secularists both in the UK and … Continue reading Conference: Sharia, Segregation and Secularism
Mariam Sheibani, Visiting Fellow, ILSP: SHARIAsource, Harvard Law School This paper explores the tensions between conservative and innovative strains in Islamic law in twelfth-century Ayyūbid Damascus. The newly restored refugee capital of Damascus inherited the Shāfiʿī traditions of both Khurāsān and Iraq, which had developed autonomously throughout the tenth and eleventh centuries. While formal attribution … Continue reading SHARIAsource Lunch Talk :: Between Legal Conservatism and Legal Change: Fault Lines in Ayyūbid Damascus
As part of the Centre of South Asian Studies seminar series, Dr. Ali Altaf Mian of Seattle University will be presenting on "Contesting Courts: Islamic Law in Colonial and Post-Colonial South Asia." This session will be chaired by Dr. Iza Hussin (Department of Politics and International Studies). Drinks will be served at the Centre afterwards. … Continue reading Cambridge Lecture: Islamic Law in Colonial and Post-Colonial South Asia
The Department of History and Archaeology at the American University of Beirut invites applications for a full-time faculty position in modern Middle East history, with a focus on the Arabic-speaking world, to begin August 15, 2019. The position is tenure-track and open to all ranks (assistant, associate, and full professor). The position is open to … Continue reading Call for Applications: American University of Beirut: Professor, Modern Middle East/Arab History
The Stanford Center for Law and History invites paper submissions from graduate students for its second annual conference, which will center on the theme of the upcoming centennial of the 19th Amendment. SCLH’s goal is to bring together faculty, postdocs, and students for workshops, conferences, and lectures examining the relationships between law and history, broadly … Continue reading Call for Papers: Legal Histories of the 19th Amendment
The Sixth Annual Conference of the British Association for Islamic Studies 15 - 16 April 2019 (Arrival and Registration from 14 April) University of Nottingham Call for panels and papers Following BRAIS’s successful conferences in Edinburgh (2014), London (2015 and 2016), Chester (2017) and Exeter (2018), the organisers invite proposals for whole panels or individual … Continue reading Call for Papers: British Association for Islamic Studies (BRAIS) 2019 Conference
The Institute seeks a scholar with a very good knowledge of the field as a whole and excellent proficiency in at least one language of the MENA region. In their own research, applicants should have historical expertise (preferably in political, social or economic history) oriented towards questions of the present, as well as a high … Continue reading Call for Applications: Bern University: Professor, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies
Applications are invited for Fellowships of up to 6 months, for research into the Persian Arts of the Book. Research areas may include but are not limited to studies in Art History, Codicology, Calligraphy, Miniature Painting, the History of Islamic Book Production and Scribal Practices, Manuscript Cataloguing, and the Editing and Translation of Texts. Academics … Continue reading Call for Applications: Bodleian Libraries Fellowships in the Persian Arts of the Book
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences at the American University of Beirut seeks an established scholar of prominent standing in his/her field of specialization for visiting appointment to the Alfred H. Howell Endowed Chair in History and Archaeology. The applicant will be a recognized senior academic specializing in Medieval or Modern Middle Eastern History and/or … Continue reading Call for Applications: American University of Beirut: Chair, History and Archaeology
