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 @ 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 @ 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 @ 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 @ 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 @ 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 @ 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

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 …

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

March 15

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 - March 23

“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 @ 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 …