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
Call for Submissions: Harvard Law School’s Journal of Islamic Law, November 30, 2020
The Journal of Islamic Law is now accepting submissions for its Spring 2021 second issue. Submission types accepted include articles, essays, case briefs, student notes, book reviews, and data science reviews. All submissions will be subject to peer review. Visit the Journal of Islamic Law submissions page for all details and to register your submission. … Continue reading Call for Submissions: Harvard Law School’s Journal of Islamic Law, November 30, 2020
Call for Abstracts: New Methods in the Study of Islam, 30 Nov
New Methods in the Study of Islam CALL FOR ABSTRACTS Methods play a notable role in the scholarly cognition of available data and shape (and even direct) scholarly productions. In the study of religions, methods also highlight possible connections between various traditions by utilizing a multitude of socio-cultural, anthropological, legal, textual and other disciplinary … Continue reading Call for Abstracts: New Methods in the Study of Islam, 30 Nov
Call for Applications: RomanIslam Center for Comparative Empire and Transcultural Studies Fellowships, 2021/2022
The Center for Advanced Study brings together scholars from a wide range of disciplines working on Romanization and Islamication in Late Antiquity with a focus but not exclusively on the Iberian Peninsula and North Africa during the first millennium CE. The overall aim of the Center is to explore new approaches to Romanization and Islamication … Continue reading Call for Applications: RomanIslam Center for Comparative Empire and Transcultural Studies Fellowships, 2021/2022
Call for Applications: J. Willard Hurst Summer Institute in Legal History
Via the American Society for Legal History, we have the following call for applications: The J. Willard Hurst Summer Institute in Legal History is a biennial event sponsored by ASLH and traditionally held in June in Madison, Wisconsin, with support from the Institute for Legal Studies of the University of Wisconsin, where the late Professor … Continue reading Call for Applications: J. Willard Hurst Summer Institute in Legal History
Conference: Race and the Middle Ages, The 46th Annual New England Medieval Conference, December 3, 2020
RACE AND THE MIDDLE AGES The 46th Annual New England Medieval Conference Virtual Meeting Thursday, December 3, 2020 Keynote Speaker: Geraldine Heng, The University of Texas at Austin, “The Politics of Race in the European Middle Ages” With the world-wide resurgence of anti-racist activism following the killing of George Floyd, we as medievalists feel compelled to reexamine notions of … Continue reading Conference: Race and the Middle Ages, The 46th Annual New England Medieval Conference, December 3, 2020
Online Lecture: Contesting Muhammad: Contemporary Controversies in Historical Perspective by Kecia Ali, University of New England, November 30, 2020 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
Online Lecture: Contesting Muhammad: Contemporary Controversies in Historical Perspective by Kecia Ali, University of New England, November 30, 2020 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
The lecture will be live streamed. Visit here for more information.
Online Lecture: Nil Tuzcu (Cambridge, MA): Istanbul Urban Database, The University of Vienna, Department of Near Eastern Studies, December 3, 2020, @12:00-12:40 PM
Online Lecture: Nil Tuzcu (Cambridge, MA): Istanbul Urban Database, The University of Vienna, Department of Near Eastern Studies, December 3, 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: Nil Tuzcu (Cambridge, MA): Istanbul Urban Database, The University of Vienna, Department of Near Eastern Studies, December 3, 2020, @12:00-12:40 PM
Online Conference: Politics and Practices of Resistance in the Middle East, Center for Near Eastern Studies (UCLA), December 4, 2020 @ 12:00 – 2:45 pm
Online Conference: Politics and Practices of Resistance in the Middle East, Center for Near Eastern Studies (UCLA), December 4, 2020 @ 12:00 – 2:45 pm
On Friday, December 4, from 9 - 11:45 am Pacific (12 - 2:45 pm ET), UCLA’s Center for Near Eastern Studies will host the online conference, “Politics and Practices of Resistance in the Middle East.” Global Academy scholars Dilsa Deniz (UC San Diego), Seyed Masoud Noori (NYU), Haydar Darici (American University), and Melissa Bilal (UCLA) … Continue reading Online Conference: Politics and Practices of Resistance in the Middle East, Center for Near Eastern Studies (UCLA), December 4, 2020 @ 12:00 – 2:45 pm