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SUMMARY:Call for Applications: Data Science Fellow\, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences\, Institute for Quantitative Social Science
DESCRIPTION:Data Science Fellowships\n\n\n\nTitle: Data Science Fellow \nSchool: Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences \nDepartment/Area: Institute for Quantitative Social Science (IQSS) \nPosition Description: The Institute for Quantitative Social Science (IQSS) in partnership with Harvard Law School’s Program in Islamic Law is seeking a Data Science Fellow to work on SHARIAsource\, a Harvard initiative designed to combine historical Islamic sources with data science. The Fellow will be based at IQSS\, which offers a rich community of researchers working on data science problems with applications to the social sciences. In collaboration with the Harvard Libraries\, which house one of the largest collections of sources in the world\, data science approaches will allow us to use quantitative methods to arrive at new insights into unanswered questions. \nSuccessful forays into this new approach to social science and law in this field will require building a corpus of texts\, creating tools to render machine-readable data\, and building historical text-mining tools. The corpus will be constructed through a combination of machine-learning projects that mine library and online systems for relevant data with faculty guidance in identifying subsets of those texts for digitization. An Arabic OCR tool will build on existing experiments and integrate new tools designed to convert raw image scans into high-accuracy texts using natural language processing and machine learning to recognize irregular text structures\, right-to-left texts\, and annotations from multiple fonts and scripts. Text-mining algorithms will then be constructed in close collaboration with faculty to create data models that answer important questions in history and law. \nThe Fellow will work on multiple components of this project. He or she will help assemble and tag the corpus\, integrate the texts and tools into a collaborative data platform\, and construct algorithms for structuring and mining the data to create classified data models. The ideal candidate will have completed a PhD program in computer science or a related field\, and would benefit from spending time working in a university setting on problems at the intersection of technology and academic research. \nThis is a one-year term appointment. The expected start date is summer 2020\, with possibilities for extension based on performance and funding. The Fellow will work closely with the PI\, Professor Intisar Rabb (Harvard Law School\, Department of History\, Program in Islamic Law). \nBasic Qualifications: \n\nA graduate degree at the Master’s level or higher is required before the start date.\nExcellent programming and problem-solving skills\, as well as a solid background in database design\, text analysis\, and machine learning.\nThe Fellow must be self-directed and able to innovatively apply relevant research methods to this use case.\n\nHighly Preferred Qualifications: \n\nA PhD or equivalent in a relevant field of study.\n\nSpecial Instructions: TO APPLY: Applicants should submit: 1) a CV\, 2) an unofficial transcript of terminal degree\, and 3) a one-page cover letter describing their experience with data science (including links to portfolios\, sites\, and/or data repositories) addressed to Professor Intisar Rabb. All applications should be submitted online. Application review will begin on April 10\, 2020\, and applications will continue to be accepted on a rolling basis until the position is filled. \nContact Information: Mona Rahmani\, Associate Director\, Program in Islamic Law (pil@law.harvard.edu). \nEqual Opportunity Employer: We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race\, color\, religion\, sex\, national origin\, disability status\, protected veteran status\, gender identity\, sexual orientation\, pregnancy and pregnancy-related conditions or any other characteristic protected by law.
URL:https://islamiclaw.blog/event/call-for-applications-data-science-fellow-harvard-faculty-of-arts-and-sciences-institute-for-quantitative-social-science/
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SUMMARY:Talk: "Intimacy Under Surveillance: Moral Policing & the State in Contemporary Malaysia\," Nurul Huda Mohd Razif\, Evans Fellow\, University of Cambridge.
DESCRIPTION:Nurul Huda Mohd Razif\, Evans Fellow\, University of Cambridge; Visiting Fellow\, Program on Law and Society in the Muslim World \nMar 4 | 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM | Austin 102 \nIntimacy Under Surveillance: Moral Policing & the State in Contemporary Malaysia \n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn Muslim-majority Malaysia today\, marriage is recognized as the only acceptable means of securing access to lawful sexual intimacy. This is reinforced by Islamic\, Malay cultural (adat)\, as well as legal restrictions on pre-/extra-marital sexual intimacy\, which is criminalized under the Malaysian Syariah law’s Criminal Offences Act. This talk discusses the role of the state-led Vice Prevention Unit (Unit Pencegah Maksiat) in “enjoining the good\, and forbidding the evil” (amar ma’aruf\, nahi mungkar) in Malaysian society\, focusing in particular on the surveillance of sexual offences and crimes of passion such as khalwat (illicit proximity). Dr. Mohd Razif suggests that state-led moral policing in Malaysia today not only reproduces Malay understandings of marriage and intimacy\, but also demonstrates the ways in which the bureaucratization of Islam opens up avenues for state intervention in Muslims’ intimate lives. 
URL:https://islamiclaw.blog/event/talk-intimacy-under-surveillance-moral-policing-the-state-in-contemporary-malaysia-nurul-huda-mohd-razif-evans-fellow-university-of-cambridge/
LOCATION:Austin 102\, Harvard Law School
CATEGORIES:lectures and talks
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SUMMARY:Call for Applications: Research Fellowships (2020-2021)\, Program in Islamic Law at Harvard Law School
DESCRIPTION:The Program in Islamic Law welcomes applicants with a JD\, SJD\, PhD or other comparable terminal degree from any field of study who are interested in spending a term or academic year in residence at Harvard Law School for Research Fellowships working on outstanding scholarly projects in Islamic legal studies. We seek applicants from a diverse range of backgrounds\, academic traditions\, and scholarly interests. Women and minorities are especially encouraged to apply. \nApplications undergo review by a fellowship committee\, and are subject to space and funding limitations. (Note: Applicants must reasonably expect to have been awarded their degree by the beginning of the appointment.) Visiting fellows may apply for a stipend of up to $40\,000 for the academic year. Applications for the 2020-2021 academic year are due January 31st\, 2020. 
URL:https://islamiclaw.blog/event/call-for-applications-research-fellowships-2020-2021-program-in-islamic-law-at-harvard-law-school/
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