This conference is for researchers, lawyers, judges, law students and others, who are interested in the legal aspects of Islam in Europe. During the conference, six leading scholars from around Europe will discuss how Islamic law and other Islamic norms are being used in Europe and how the European legal systems are responding to it. …
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“Political Theology” covers a multidisciplinary field of research that engages the unwieldy relationship between religion and politics out of a desire for justice. At the Political Theology Network Conference, we extend this engagement by bringing together scholars, activists, artists, and religious leaders working both inside and outside the academy. This three-day conference will feature more …
Comparative Law and International Dispute Resolution Processes American Society of Comparative Law 2019 Annual Meeting Program In cooperation with the University of Missouri Center for the Study of Dispute Resolution, the University of Missouri International Center, and Media Partner Transnational Dispute Management (TDM)/OGEMID/Young OGEMID. October 17-19, 2019 Overview Program Register Works-in-Progress Conference Concurrent Panels Overview …
Come to the film screening of the 2011 movie A Separation—about marriage, divorce, crime, and regret—directed by Oscar Award-winning director Asghar Farhadi (for The Salesman, 2017). A Separation won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2012, becoming the first Iranian film to do so. It also won the Golden Globe for Best …
October 19 and 20, 9:30am-4:30pm Digital Editing and the Medieval Manuscript is a 2-day workshop for graduate students which covers the fundamentals of digital editing while tackling the codicological challenges posed by medieval manuscripts. Participants will collaboratively transcribe, annotate, and encode (with TEI P5) the text and images of Houghton Lat. 159, a late medieval …
Digital Editing and the Medieval Manuscript Workshop Oct 19-20 |9.30 am – 4.30 pm | TBA Digital Editing and the Medieval Manuscript is a 2-day workshop for graduate students which covers the fundamentals of digital editing while tackling the codicological challenges posed by medieval manuscripts. Participants will collaboratively transcribe, annotate, and encode (with TEI P5) …
Throughout the academic year, the Program in Islamic Law hosts an "Islamic Law Lecture Series," in which distinguished faculty and fellows present their cutting-edge research on Islamic law, past and present. In the first installment of the Program in Islamic Law's "Islamic Law Lecture Series," Maya Shatzmiller , Professor, Western University, will present on her …
"Anglo-Persian Texts and the Colonial Understanding of Religion" What: Lecture by Carl Ernst, William R. Keenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Islamic Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Where: William James Hall 1550 When: October 24, 2019, 4-5:30pm
Research/Writing Projects HLS J.D. and LL.M. students may register for the Winter Term Writing Program and devote Winter Term to intensive, independent research and writing under the supervision of an HLS faculty member. Please see the Winter Term Writing Program information in the HLS Handbook of Academic Policies for more information, including specifics regarding credits, and this …
