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SUMMARY:Grant: MESA Global Academy 2025 – 2026 Application\, May 1\, 2025
DESCRIPTION:From MESA: \nThe MESA Global Academy offers scholars of the Middle East from the MENA region who are currently displaced the chance to join the strongest network of Middle East Studies scholars in North America\, with professional development opportunities and a research grant. \nEligibility criteria for the fellowships are: 1) holding a PhD or equivalent in a field in the social sciences or humanities (graduate students will not be considered); 2) the primary institutional affiliation was in the MENA region prior to displacement; and 3) a publication record indicating scholarly productivity (in English\, French\, a native MENA language\, or principal research language of the field). \nThe deadline for applications is May 1\, 2025. \nFor more information and to apply\, click here.
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/grant-mesa-global-academy-2025-2026-application-may-1-2025/
CATEGORIES:Applications,Due dates,Grants,Opportunities
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SUMMARY:Workshop: Parchment\, Paper\, Inks\, and Gold\, The Alwaleed Islamic Studies Program and Harvard Art Museums\, May 1\, 2025 @ 10:00 am – 2:00 pm
DESCRIPTION:A Workshop on Parchment\, Paper\, Inks\, and Gold \nThursday\, May 1\, 2025 | 10am-2pm | Art Study Center\, Harvard Art Museums\nPenley Knipe\, Philip and Lynn Straus Senior Conservator of Works of Art on Paper and Head of Paper Lab\, Harvard Art Museums\nDavid Roxburgh\, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Professor of Islamic Art History\, Harvard University \n\nThe workshop on May 1\, 2025\, will look at the materials and techniques of selected Qur’ans made between the 8th and 15th centuries in the collection of the Harvard Art Museums. We will look at the supports (paper and parchment)\, bindings (when applicable)\, inks\, gold\, and polychrome pigments (opaque watercolors) used to create these manuscripts. We will also discuss their development over time and throughout the regions of the Islamic lands. We have paired one reading to complete before the workshop\, Martin Levey’s “Mediaeval Arabic Bookmaking and its Relation to Early Chemistry and Pharmacology\,” which includes a translation of al-Mu’izz ibn Badis’s treatise “Book of the Staff of the Scribes and Implements of the Discerning” (Kitab ‘umdat al-kuttab wa ‘uddat dhawi al-albab) composed c. 1025 CE. \nThis first part of the workshop will take place in the Art Study Center for two hours\, 10:00am-12:00pm. Lunch will then be served. The final segment of the workshop\, 1:00-2:30pm\, will allow time for some of the participants to present a single leaf or single manuscript of their choosing to share with the cohort. This is not restricted to Qur’ans. Objects can be searched through the browse collections page of the Harvard Art Museums’ website. \nParticipation is by application and is limited to 15 graduate students. \nApplications will be accepted until March 31 and applicants will be notified whether they have been admitted by April 14. \nTo apply\, visit the link here.
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/workshop-parchment-paper-inks-and-gold-the-alwaleed-islamic-studies-program-and-harvard-art-museums-may-1-2025-1000-am-200-pm/
CATEGORIES:Applications,conferences and workshops,Due dates,Harvard Events,Opportunities
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SUMMARY:Prize: Middle East Medievalists (MEM) Book Prize\, May 1\, 2025
DESCRIPTION:From the organizers: \nDear MEM members\, \nThe Board of Directors of Middle East Medievalists (MEM) is pleased to request submissions for its biennial prize for best book on the medieval Middle East (ca. 500-1500 CE). The prize will be awarded at the 2025 annual meeting of the Middle East Studies Association. \nBelow is a list of criteria for the upcoming competition: \n\nBooks published between April 1\, 2023 and March 31\, 2025 are eligible for this year’s prize.\nBooks must be non-fiction scholarly monographs based on original research.  Works not eligible include edited collections and compilations\, proceedings of symposia\, new editions of previously published books\, bibliographies\, dictionaries\, textbooks\, and surveys.  We welcome submissions from scholars working with primary source texts in Arabic\, Persian\, or any other Middle Eastern language\, as well as interdisciplinary studies and studies based on research with documents\, manuscripts\, and material culture.\nAuthors must be current members in good standing of Middle East Medievalists to be considered. To join MEM or renew your membership\, please visit our MEMbership page.\n\nDeadline:  May 1\, 2025 \nTO NOMINATE A BOOK \n\nAuthors or publishers should submit a short letter of nomination (preferably in an e-mail) noting the title\, publisher\, date of publication\, and series (if appropriate) to the Chair of the Selection Committee\, Abigail Balbale (abigail.balbale@nyu.edu) and the Secretary of MEM Jonathan Brack (jonathan.brack@northwestern.edu) by May 1\, 2025. *We recommend including a PDF of the book (if available) when submitting the letter of nomination.*\nSend hard copies of the book to each of the *four* members of the Selection committee\, postmarked by May 15 2025. Addresses are in the attached document.
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/prize-middle-east-medievalists-mem-book-prize-may-1-2025/
CATEGORIES:Due dates,Opportunities,prizes and nominations
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SUMMARY:Workshop: Annual Comparative Law Work-in-Progress Workshop\, May 1-3\, 2025 (Call for Papers deadline: February 5\, 2025)
DESCRIPTION:Annual Comparative Law Work-in-Progress Workshop \nMay 1-3\, 2025 \nAnnouncement and Call for Papers \n Co-Organized and Co-Hosted by \nJacqueline Ross (University of Illinois College of Law) \nKim Lane Scheppele (Princeton University) \nJacques deLisle (University of Pennsylvania Law School)\, and \nAnd co-sponsored by The American Society of Comparative Law \n  \nHosting institution this year:  University of Illinois College of Law  \nWe invite all interested comparative law scholars to consider submitting a paper to the next annual Comparative Law Work-in-Progress Workshop\, which will be hosted by University of Illinois College of Law and held in-person in Champaign-Urbana\, from May 1-3\, 2025. \nInterested authors should submit papers to Jacqueline Ross at jeross1@illinois.edu. Please put “Comparative Law Workshop” in the subject line of your email when submitting.  \nPapers must be submitted by February 5\, 2025. We will inform authors of our decision by March 5\, 2025.  \nThe annual workshop is an important forum in which comparative law works in progress can be explored among colleagues in a serious and thorough manner that will be truly helpful to the respective authors. “Work in progress” means scholarship that has reached a stage at which it is substantial enough for serious discussion and critique but that has not yet appeared in print and can still be revised after the workshop\, if it has already been accepted for publication.   Appropriate work for the workshop includes law review articles\, book chapters\, and other similar genres. \nWe ask for only one contribution per author and also ask authors to limit their papers to 15\,000 words (including notes).   If the paper (or book chapter) is longer\, please indicate which 15\,000 word portion they would like to have read and discussed. \nOur objective is not only to provide an opportunity for the discussion of scholarly work but also to create the opportunity for comparative lawyers to get together for two days devoted to talking shop\, both in the sessions and outside. We hope that this will create synergy that fosters more dialogue\, cooperation\, and an increased sense of coherence for the discipline. \nThe participants in the workshop will consist of the paper authors\, designated commentators\, and scholars from the host institutions. The group will be kept small enough to sit around a large table and to allow serious discussion. The authors will not present their papers at the workshop. The papers will be distributed well in advance and every participant is expected to have read all of them before the workshop.   While it may be hard to ensure your own paper is below 15\,000 words\, you will appreciate the word limit when it comes to reading all of the other papers for the workshop. \nEach paper will be introduced and discussed first by two commentators before opening the discussion to the other workshop participants\, who are all expected to be prepared with comments on the circulated (and read) papers. The author of each paper will be given an opportunity to respond and ask questions of his or her own.   Each author whose work is featured in the workshop is expected to comment on the work of the other six authors and to participate in the discussion of their work.   \nThere are no plans to publish a collection of the workshop papers. Paper authors may seek publication if\, and wherever\, they wish. The goal of the workshop is to improve the work before publication. \nThe workshop begins with a Thursday evening reception and dinner on May 1\, runs all day Friday May 2 and ends shortly after lunch on Saturday May 3.   We expect all authors to attend the entire workshop to provide continuity in the discussions. \nThe Workshop is supported by the University of Illinois College of Law and the American Society of Comparative Law.   We will cover the costs of hotels and meals in Champaign-Urbana and some portion of authors’ travel costs\, up to $600 per person\, though with some flexibility to reimburse for more if warranted by cost and distance.
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/workshop-annual-comparative-law-work-in-progress-workshop-may-1-3-2025-call-for-papers-deadline-february-5-2024/
CATEGORIES:Call for papers,conferences and workshops,Due dates,Opportunities
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