Week of Events
Award: Annemarie Schimmel-Foundation for Islamic Studies Research Award
The Annemarie Schimmel-Foundation for Islamic Studies (Bonn) calls for recommendations for the 2022 grant of its biennial Research Award. Eligible for the award are outstanding research contributions (usually in the form of a dissertation) in the field of Islamic Studies. The awardee will be received for ceremony at the Deutscher Orientalistentag 2022 in Berlin and will be … Continue reading Award: Annemarie Schimmel-Foundation for Islamic Studies Research Award
Legal Internship: ACLU Illinois, Fall 2022
The Legal Department of the ACLU of Illinois seeks second- and third-year law students for part-time Fall 2022 legal internships. (We do not have legal internships for undergraduates.) Our internship program for this term may be in person when our office reopens or may be remote. Interns must be located in Illinois during the internship. Applications … Continue reading Legal Internship: ACLU Illinois, Fall 2022
Call for Papers: Gender as a Category of Analysis for the Study of the Medieval Middle East
From the organizers: We are soliciting original research articles that use gender as an analytical lens through which to view any aspect of the medieval Middle East, expansively defined to include all geographies with prominent Muslim political, religious, or social presences between the rough parameters of 500 and 1500 CE. Abstracts are due June 1, … Continue reading Call for Papers: Gender as a Category of Analysis for the Study of the Medieval Middle East
Position opening: Collections Curator, Aga Khan Documentation Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The AKDC Collections Curator is a versatile and exciting new role for a specialist in Islamic art and/or architecture who will be responsible for researching AKDC’s extensive physical collections and making them accessible to a range of audiences. The Collections Curator will lead projects on describing and disseminating the unique archival holdings the center, and … Continue reading Position opening: Collections Curator, Aga Khan Documentation Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Conference on Kurdish Family Law, Harnack House in Berlin, June 2-4, 2022
The Conference on Kurdish Family Law is organized by Shéhérazade Elyazidi (Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law) and Sebastian Maisel (University of Leipzig). The research conference will be held at the Harnack House in Berlin from 2 – 4 June 2022. The Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law hosts and provides … Continue reading Conference on Kurdish Family Law, Harnack House in Berlin, June 2-4, 2022
Workshop: Formation, Establishment, and Evolution of the Mālikī Madhhab, University of Laussane, June 4, 2022
For details, see here. The Zoom link is https://unil.zoom.us/j/97655329872.