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SUMMARY:Talk: “Chasing Floods: the Ottoman Introduction of Rice in the Balkan Peninsula” by Aleksandar Shopov\, CMES\, Harvard University\, November 15\, 2023
DESCRIPTION:From the CMES website: \nDate: Wednesday\, November 15\, 2023\, 6:00pm to 7:30pm; Location: CMES\, Rm 102\, 38 Kirkland St\, Cambridge\, MA 02138 \nThe CMES Disaster Studies Initiative is pleased to present Aleksandar Shopov\, Visiting Scholar\, CMES; Assistant Professor\, History\, SUNY Binghamton University. \nFor more details\, visit here.
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/talk-chasing-floods-the-ottoman-introduction-of-rice-in-the-balkan-peninsula-by-aleksandar-shopov-cmes-harvard-university-november-15-2023/
CATEGORIES:Harvard Events,lectures and talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231116T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231116T133000
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SUMMARY:Seminar: “Revisiting History: Nurullah Shushtari on Shī’ī Historiography\, Taqiyya & The Pre-Savafid Era” by Shahrad Shahvand\, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program\, Harvard University\, November 16\, 2023
DESCRIPTION:Date: Thursday\, November 16\, 2023\, 12:00pm to 1:30pm; Location: TBD \n\n\n\n\nShahrad Shahvand\, Alwaleed Bin Talal Postdoctoral Fellow \nCo-sponsor: Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and Persian and Persianate Studies Seminar\, Mahindra Humanities Center \nRSVP here.
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/seminar-revisiting-history-nurullah-shushtari-on-shii-historiography-taqiyya-the-pre-savafid-era-by-shahrad-shahvand-prince-alwaleed-bin-talal-islamic-studies-program/
CATEGORIES:Harvard Events,lectures and talks
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20231117
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SUMMARY:Winter Excursion to Tunisia: Center for Middle Eastern Studies\, Harvard University\, November 17\, 2023
DESCRIPTION:The Center for Middle Eastern Studies offers a study excursion to Tunisia in January 2024. This year’s expected dates are January 2 – 19. A predeparture meeting for accepted students will be held during reading week. \nThis three-week itinerary\, based in the city of Tunis\, focuses on thehistory and culture of Tunisiaand how they intersect with landscape and urbanism. The field-based programis intended for students whose primary focus is on North African and Middle Eastern Studies. The program is open to graduate students across Harvard’s schools. Undergraduates who are concentrating on fields relatedto North Africa and the Middle East are also eligible to apply\, with priority given to students in their junior or senior year. Participants must be enrolled as students at the time the program takes place. \nOne letter of reference\, a transcript/grade report\, and a one-page statement of purpose are required. The reference letter should come from a Harvard faculty member\, ideally one whose work relates to the MENA region. \nLodging\, food\, airfare\, and meals will be covered by CMES. \nIn order to comply with Tunisian regulations\, all students must be fully vaccinated. Non-US citizens are responsible for arranging any needed visas. \nThis winter excursion to Tunisia is available to full-time\, registered Harvard graduate students and upperclassmen. Preference is given to graduate students with MENA interests. \nOne letter of recommendation\, transcript (unofficial accepted)\, and personal statement required. \nThe deadline for applications is November 17\, 2023. \nFor more information\, visit here.
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/winter-excursion-to-tunisia-center-for-middle-eastern-studies-harvard-university-november-17-2023/
CATEGORIES:Applications,Due dates,Harvard Events,Opportunities
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231127T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231127T133000
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SUMMARY:Talk: “Three Strikes and She’s Out: The Origins and Expansion of a Divorce and Remarriage Stipulation in Q 2:230” by Lyall Armstrong\, Alwaleed Bin Talal Director’s Series\, Harvard Law School\, Lewis 214\, November 27\, 2023 @ 12:00 – 1:30 p.m.
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Monday\, November 27\, 2023 at 12pm EST for a talk titled “Three Strikes and She’s Out: The Origins and Expansion of a Divorce and Remarriage Stipulation in Q 2:230” by Professor Lyall Armstrong. \nAbstract: Q 2:230 stipulates that if a man divorces his wife three times and then wants to marry her again\, she must have married and divorced another man in the intervening period in order for her to be legally licit for the previous husband. This lecture will explore the origins of this divorce ruling by evaluating its relationship to divorce and remarriage law in Late Antiquity and by analyzing the Islamic tradition purported to be the source for the ruling. The lecture will then investigate how early and medieval legal scholars approached the ruling in light of its canonization in the Qur’ān. This evaluation of Q 2:230 hopes to contribute to the expansion of our understanding of the origins and applications\, even in the modern period\, of Islamic law.
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/talk-three-strikes-and-shes-out-the-origins-and-expansion-of-a-divorce-and-remarriage-stipulation-in-q-2230-by-lyall-armstrong-alwaleed-bin-talal-directors-series-ha/
CATEGORIES:Harvard Events,lectures and talks,PIL events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231128T170000
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SUMMARY:Talk: “The ‘Khitat’ of al-Maqrizi: Narrating History on the Tempo of ‘Kharab'” by Nasser Rabat\, CMES\, Harvard University\, November 28\, 2023
DESCRIPTION:From the CMES website: \nDate: Tuesday\, November 28\, 2023\, 5:00pm to 6:30pm; Location: CMES\, Rm 102\, 38 Kirkland St\, Cambridge\, MA 02138 \nThe CMES Disaster Studies Initiative presents Nasser Rabbat Aga Khan Professor and Director of the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture\,  MIT \nNasser Rabbat is the Aga Khan Professor and Director of the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at MIT.  His interests include Islamic architecture\, urban history\, heritage studies\, Arab history\, contemporary Islamic art\, and post-colonial criticism.  He teaches lecture courses on Islamic architecture\, the architecture of Cairo\, and Islamic architecture and the environment and seminars on Orientalism and colonialism; Issues in Islamic Urbanism; Historiography of Islamic Architecture; Late Antiquity and the foundation of Islamic architecture; Reading Ibn Khaldun; (Re)constructing Memory; Urbicide; and Balancing Globalism and Regionalism in the Arabian Gulf cities. \nProfessor Rabbat has published more than a hundred scholarly articles and several books on topics ranging from Mamluk architecture to Antique Syria\, 19th century Cairo\, Orientalism\, and urbicide.  His most recent books are Writing Egypt: Al-Maqrizi and His Historical Project (2022); ‘Imarat al-Mudun al-Mayyita (The Architecture of the Dead Cities) (2018)\, and an online book\, The Destruction of Cultural Heritage: From Napoléon to ISIS\, co-edited with Pamela Karimi (2016).  His co-edited book\, Construction as Destruction: The Case of Syria will be published in 2023 by AUC Press.  He is currently editing a book on the cultural history of Syria to be published by Edinburgh University Press.  His next book project is a history of Mamluk Cairo\, which is under contract with AUC Press. \nFor more information\, visit here.
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/talk-the-khitat-of-al-maqrizi-narrating-history-on-the-tempo-of-kharab-by-nasser-rabat-cmes-harvard-university-november-28-2023/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231129T180000
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SUMMARY:Talk: “Locusts of Power” by Samuel Dolbee\, CMES\, Harvard University\, November 29\, 2023
DESCRIPTION:From the CMES website: \nDate: Wednesday\, November 29\, 2023\, 6:00pm to 7:30pm; Location: CMES\, Rm 102\, 38 Kirkland St\, Cambridge\, MA 02138 \nThe CMES Environmental Studies of the Middle East Speaker Series is pleased to present Samuel Dolbee\, Assistant Professor of History\, Family Dean’s Faculty Fellow in Studies of the Middle East\, Vanderbilt University \nSamuel Dolbee\, Assistant Professor\, Vanderbilt University\, is an environmental historian of the Ottoman Empire and the modern Middle East\, with interests in agriculture\, disease\, and science. He teaches courses in the Department of History and as part of the Climate Studies major. \nHis first book from Cambridge University Press is entitled Locusts of Power: Borders\, Empire\, and Environment in the Modern Middle East (June 2023). The book offers a new account of the end of the Ottoman Empire and the emergence of the states of Iraq\, Syria\, and Turkey grounded in the ecology of the Jazira region\, its mobile people\, and distinctive locusts. It unearths what borders meant in the lives of not only locusts but also Arab and Kurdish nomads\, Armenian deportees\, and Assyrian refugees. His next project is an environmental history of the microbe in the late Ottoman Empire. It is concerned at once with new treatments and spatial controls established against ailments like phylloxera\, rabies\, and rinderpest—which devastated the empire’s grape vines\, street dogs\, and cattle—as well as the way the language of germs infected the language of politics in the empire’s final years. \nDolbee’s scholarship has appeared in the American Historical Review\, Past & Present\, and International Journal of Middle East Studies. He has also contributed chapters to edited volumes on the history of food and disease\, respectively. He is the editor in chief of Ottoman History Podcast. \nPrior to coming to Vanderbilt\, Dolbee was a lecturer on History & Literature at Harvard. He previously held postdoctoral fellowships at Yale’s Program in Agrarian Studies\, Harvard’s Mahindra Humanities Center\, and Brandeis University’s Crown Center for Middle East Studies. Dolbee completed his PhD at New York University in the joint program in History and Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies\, and has an MA in Arab Studies from Georgetown University and a BA in History and International Studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. \nFor more information\, visit here.
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/talk-locusts-of-power-by-samuel-dolbee-cmes-harvard-university-november-29-2023/
CATEGORIES:Harvard Events,lectures and talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231130T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231130T133000
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SUMMARY:Seminar: “Ineffability and Adequation: Symmetries between ‘Ayn al-Quḍāt Hamadānī’s Theory of Language\, Ontology and Mystical Epistemology” by Nicholas Boylston\, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program\, Harvard University\, November 30\, 2023
DESCRIPTION:Date: Thursday\, November 30\, 2023\, 12:00pm to 1:30pm; Location: TBD \n\n\n\n\nNicholas Boylston\, Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations \nCo-sponsor: Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and Persian and Persianate Studies Seminar\, Mahindra Humanities Center \nRSVP here.
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/seminar-ineffability-and-adequation-symmetries-between-ayn-al-qu%e1%b8%8dat-hamadanis-theory-of-language-ontology-and-mystical-epistemology-by-nicholas-boylston-prince/
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