Oct 14

12:30 - 13:30

Islamic Law Speaker Series: Rami Koujah (Harvard Law School), The Invention of Islamic Legal Personhood: Artifact to Ontology, October 14, 2025 @12:30pm

Oct 20

18:15 - 19:30

Workshop: Middle East Beyond Borders—Prof. Houssem Chachia (University of Tunis), “The Conquest of Tunis (1535): Memory, Defeat, and Celebration Across Cultures,” October 20, 2025 @6:15pm

Nov 3

18:15 - 19:30

Workshop: Middle East Beyond Borders—Ozkan Karabulut (Harvard University), “Scripturalization of the Alevi Mystical Poetry,” November 3, 2025 @6:15pm

Nov 5

November 5, 2025 - November 7, 2025

Conference: 5th ACM Conference on Equity and Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, and Optimization, University of Pittsburgh, November 5-7, 2025

Nov 5

17:30 - 18:30

Lecture: “Law Between Self and Society: Collective Duties in Islamic Law—Past, Present, and Future” with Prof. Adnan A. Zulfiqar (Boston College), UC Irvine, November 5, 2025 @5:30pm

Nov 11

12:30 - 13:30

Islamic Law Speaker Series: Youssef Belal (United Nations), “Thinking the World with Islamic Knowledges,” November 11, 2025 @12:30pm

Nov 17

18:15 - 19:30

Workshop: Middle East Beyond Borders—Cem Turkoz (Harvard University), “Ottoman Natural Philosophy in Seventeenth-Century Context: The Evolution of the Canon,” November 17, 2025 @6:15pm

Jan 6

January 6 - January 9

Conference: Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, January 6–9, 2026

Jan 21

19:00 - 20:00

Book Talk: How Commerce Became Legal: Merchants and Market Governance in Nineteenth-Century Egypt by Omar Youssef Cheta (Syracuse University), January 21, 2026 @ 7:00pm

Mar 2

All day

Presentation: Lutforahman Saeed—God’s Law, Man’s Rule: Debating Women’s Right to Health from Sacred Texts to the Taliban, March 2, 2026