February 2024

Talk: “Rivers of the Sultan: The Tigris and Euphrates in the Ottoman Empire” with Faisal Husain, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University, February 28, 2024

February 28, 2024 @ 17:00 - 18:30

The CMES Environmental Studies of the Middle East Speaker Series presents “Rivers of the Sultan: The Tigris and Euphrates in the Ottoman Empire” with Faisal Husain, Assistant Professor of History, Department of History, College of the Liberal Arts, Penn State “Rivers of the Sultan” offers a history of the Ottoman Empire’s management of the Tigris …

March 2024

SHARIAsource Lab :: Hackathon: Arabic OCR Community Scribes, Program in Islamic Law, March 2, 2024 @ 12:00 – 4:00 pm

March 2, 2024 @ 12:00 - 16:00

On March 2 from 12-4pm US EST at the Program in Islamic Law’s office in Austin Hall and via Zoom, our SHARIAsource Lab will lead a Hackathon: Arabic OCR Community Scribes event . Join us for a chance to help write the next chapter in the history of the Arabic script where we bring our …

Roundtable on Transformation and Adaptation of Ottoman Land Law in 19th-Century Successor States, March 4, 2024

March 4, 2024 @ 12:30 - 14:00

The webinar information for “Roundtable on Transformation and Adaptation of Ottoman Land Law in 19th-Century Successor States“, has been updated. The Roundtable will take place on March 4, 2024 at 12:30 p.m. via Zoom. Please submit any questions to: [email protected] Register here.

Islamic Law Speaker Series: “The Rise of Critical Islam: 10th-13th Century Legal Debate” with Youcef L. Soufi, Program in Islamic Law, March 5, 2024 @ 12:30 – 1:30 pm

March 5, 2024 @ 12:30 - 13:30

The Rise of Critical Islam: 10th-13th Century Legal Debate This event will take place via Zoom. The link is available here.

Talk: “Palestinian Women in Gaza: War, Health, and Feminist Solidarity,” Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University, March 6, 2024

March 6, 2024 @ 11:00 - 12:30

Palestinian Women in Gaza: War, Health, and Feminist Solidarity Date: Wednesday, March 6, 2024, 11:00am to 12:30pm Location: Online webinar. For more information, see here.

Book talk: “The Color Black: Enslavement and Erasure in Iran,” Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University, March 6, 2024

March 6, 2024 @ 17:00 - 18:30

Book talk “The Color Black: Enslavement and Erasure in Iran” Date: Wednesday, March 6, 2024, 5:00pm to 6:30pm Location: CMES, Rm 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA 02138 See here for more information.

Award: Julien Mezey Dissertation Award Accepting Submissions, March 15, 2024

March 15, 2024

From the organizers: The Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities is excited to announce that we are accepting submissions for the Julien Mezey Dissertation Award. This annual prize is awarded to the dissertation that most promises to enrich and advance interdisciplinary scholarship at the intersection of law, culture and the humanities. …

Call for Panel Proposals: American Society for Legal History, March 15, 2024

March 15, 2024

From the organizers: “A friendly reminder that the deadline for panel proposals for this fall’s Annual Meeting in San Francisco is rapidly approaching (March 15). Information on how to build a successful panel can be found here. Only complete panel proposals will be accepted, with the exception of the session on Digital Legal History (which welcomes …

Conference: The other narratives of early Islam, Goethe-University Frankfurt, March 22-23, 2024

March 22, 2024 - March 23, 2024

“The conference aims at allowing a direct dialogue between the various semi-disciplines of early Islamic history (the 7th to 9th century). For that purpose, it brings together scholars who study early Islam either through contemporary sources or through a critical reading of later texts. One objective is to introduce the different methodologies and discuss their …

Leiden Yemeni Studies Lecture Series: Indian Problems, Yemeni Solutions? Legal Exchanges in the Sixteenth Century, March 25, 2024

March 25, 2024 @ 10:00 - 11:00

From Ekaterina Pukhovaia at the Leiden University (see here): Dear colleagues, I am pleased to announce that this spring Leiden University will host the first round of a series of online talks about Yemen. The series, running from January 2024 till June 2025 and sponsored by the Horizon-2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions project EMStaD YEMEN, brings together experts …