Week of Events
Middle Eastern Studies Association: Call for Nominations and Submissions
MESA is now accepting submissions and nominations for a number of awards. For students and recent PhD graduates: MESA Graduate Student Paper Prize and the Malcolm H. Kerr Dissertation Awards. For retired faculty, academics, and those serving Middle East Studies: MESA Mentoring Award, Jere L. Bacharach Service Award, MESA Undergraduate Education Award. Submissions and nominations … Continue reading Middle Eastern Studies Association: Call for Nominations and Submissions
Conference: Sources of Pluralism in Islamic Thought
As a global religion, Islam and its jurisprudence have offered heterogeneous responses to a range of questions facing different faiths and communities. Modernity imposed new questions upon religious scholars, theologians and philosophers, demanding of them a new version of pluralism in the theological and political arenas. While doctrinal or philosophical exclusivism rejects “the other” in … Continue reading Conference: Sources of Pluralism in Islamic Thought
ASLH Student Research Colloquium Applications
The American Society for Legal History will host a Student Research Colloquium (SRC) on Wednesday, Nov. 7, and Thursday, Nov. 8, 2018, immediately preceding the ASLH’s annual meeting in Houston, Texas. The SRC annually enables eight Ph.D. students and law students to discuss their in-progress dissertations and articles with distinguished ASLH-affiliated scholars. This year, the … Continue reading ASLH Student Research Colloquium Applications
Call for Papers: Shiʿi Piety: Theory and Materiality from Premodern to Postmodern
Call for Papers: Shiʿi Piety: Theory and Materiality from Premodern to Postmodern, November 16, 2018 Hosted by the Leiden University Shiʿi Studies Initiative (LUSSI) This one-day workshop brings together graduate students and early career scholars working on topics related to Shiʿism in all periods and from any disciplinary perspective. The workshop is open to work … Continue reading Call for Papers: Shiʿi Piety: Theory and Materiality from Premodern to Postmodern