Week of Events
Workshop: The Middle East Beyond Borders, Fall 2020
Below is the message from the event coordinators. *** Dear MEBB colleagues, We hope your semester is off to a good virtual start. We are very excited to welcome you to a new season of Middle East Beyond Borders! This year we (Lucy Ballard and Chloe Bordewich) will be your coordinators with the continued support … Continue reading Workshop: The Middle East Beyond Borders, Fall 2020
Job Opportunity: Assistant Professor – Late Antiquity and/or Early Islam, University of Toronto, November 30, 2020
Assistant Professor - Late Antiquity and/or Early Islam Date Posted: 09/22/2020 Closing Date: 11/30/2020, 11:59PM EDT Req ID: 437 Job Category: Faculty - Tenure Stream (continuing) Faculty/Division: University of Toronto Scarborough Department: Department of Historical and Cultural Studies Campus:University of Toronto Scarborough (UTSC) Description: The Department of Historical and Cultural Studies at the University of Toronto Scarborough (UTSC) invites applications for … Continue reading Job Opportunity: Assistant Professor – Late Antiquity and/or Early Islam, University of Toronto, November 30, 2020
Online Lecture: M. Erdem Kabadayı (Istanbul) and Yekta Can (Istanbul): Urban Occupations OETR. Bringing Ottoman/Turkish History into Digital Humanities, The University of Vienna, Department of Near Eastern Studies, November 19, 2020, @12:00-12:40 PM
This online lecture series is intended as a preparation for the workshop entitled Digital Humanities and Ottoman Studies. State of the art, challenges, perspectives and prospective research. The workshop has been postponed to 11-13 February 2021. Updates will be published on this website or our newsletter. Please click here to subscribe to the newsletter. This is a closed … Continue reading Online Lecture: M. Erdem Kabadayı (Istanbul) and Yekta Can (Istanbul): Urban Occupations OETR. Bringing Ottoman/Turkish History into Digital Humanities, The University of Vienna, Department of Near Eastern Studies, November 19, 2020, @12:00-12:40 PM
Lecture: Maghribi Theology in Manuscript: Reason, Belief, and the Common Folk A lecture by Caitlyn Olson (Harvard University) and Jan Thiele (CSIC, Madrid), Harvard University & CSIC, October 21, 2020 @12pm
Maghribi Theology in Manuscript: Reason, Belief, and the Common Folk The history of Islamic theology in the Maghrib is an understudied field, due in part to the fact that many relevant sources remain in manuscript. This presentation will begin by addressing the contours of the manuscript archive and then turn to some of the major … Continue reading Lecture: Maghribi Theology in Manuscript: Reason, Belief, and the Common Folk A lecture by Caitlyn Olson (Harvard University) and Jan Thiele (CSIC, Madrid), Harvard University & CSIC, October 21, 2020 @12pm
Discussion: Archive Wars: The Politics of History in Saudi Arabia, Harvard University, October 20, 2020, @12-1:30pm
Discussion: Archive Wars: The Politics of History in Saudi Arabia, Harvard University, October 20, 2020, @12-1:30pm
The Center for Middle Eastern Studies and the Department of History present a discussion of Archive Wars: The Politics of History in Saudi Arabia by Rosie Bsheer Assistant Professor of History, Harvard University The production of history is premised on the selective erasure of certain pasts and the artifacts that stand witness to them. From … Continue reading Discussion: Archive Wars: The Politics of History in Saudi Arabia, Harvard University, October 20, 2020, @12-1:30pm
Book Discussion: Fluid Jurisdictions – Colonial Law and Arabs in Southeast Asia, National University of Singapore, October 21, 2020, @10pm
Book Discussion: Fluid Jurisdictions – Colonial Law and Arabs in Southeast Asia, National University of Singapore, October 21, 2020, @10pm
ABSTRACT Fluid Jurisdictions: Colonial Law and Arabs in Southeast Asia newly released by Cornell University Press is a wide-ranging, geographically ambitious book that tells the story of the Arab diaspora within the context of British and Dutch colonialism, unpacking the community’s ambiguous embrace of European colonial authority in Southeast Asia. Fluid Jurisdictions looks at colonial legal infrastructure – … Continue reading Book Discussion: Fluid Jurisdictions – Colonial Law and Arabs in Southeast Asia, National University of Singapore, October 21, 2020, @10pm
Online Lecture: Süphan Kırmızıaltın (Abu Dhabi): Ottoman Text Recognition, The University of Vienna, Department of Near Eastern Studies, October 22, 2020, @12:00-12:40 PM
Online Lecture: Süphan Kırmızıaltın (Abu Dhabi): Ottoman Text Recognition, The University of Vienna, Department of Near Eastern Studies, October 22, 2020, @12:00-12:40 PM
This online lecture series is intended as a preparation for the workshop entitled Digital Humanities and Ottoman Studies. State of the art, challenges, perspectives and prospective research. The workshop has been postponed to 11-13 February 2021. Updates will be published on this website or our newsletter. Please click here to subscribe to the newsletter. This is a closed … Continue reading Online Lecture: Süphan Kırmızıaltın (Abu Dhabi): Ottoman Text Recognition, The University of Vienna, Department of Near Eastern Studies, October 22, 2020, @12:00-12:40 PM
Online Roundtable: The Ḥawza and the Sharia, Columbia University, October 22, 2020, @4:00 – 6:00 PM
Online Roundtable: The Ḥawza and the Sharia, Columbia University, October 22, 2020, @4:00 – 6:00 PM
October 22: Sharia Roundtable: The Ḥawza and the Sharia Thursday, October 22, 2020, 4:00-6:00 PM Registration for this Zoom webinar is required. Register here. Join us October 22nd for our second Sharia Workshop of the term! In this workshop we will discuss the Sharia and the formation of jurists in the venerable ‘seminary’ institution of the Shi’ite … Continue reading Online Roundtable: The Ḥawza and the Sharia, Columbia University, October 22, 2020, @4:00 – 6:00 PM