October 2023

Call for Papers: Law and Society Association Annual Meeting Unsettling Territories: Tradition and Revolution in Law and Society, October 24, 2023

October 24, 2023

Call For Papers: Law and Society Association Annual Meeting: Unsettling Territories: Tradition and Revolution in Law and Society, Denver, Colorado, USA, June 6-9, 2024, Hyatt Regency Denver at Colorado Convention Center We are pleased to invite you to participate in the 2024 LSA Annual Meeting that will take place in Denver, Colorado, USA from June 6-9, 2024! …

Research Fellowship: Crown Center for Middle East Studies 2024, Brandeis University, October 27, 2023

October 27, 2023

JUNIOR RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP: The Crown Center for Middle East Studies is seeking outstanding scholars of the contemporary Middle East and North Africa for a residential fellowship to begin September 1, 2024. The fellowship is for a maximum of two years upon the successful completion of fellowship requirements in the first year. The fellowship is open …

Call for Papers: Special Section – Lifewriting Annual and Islam

October 31, 2023

From the organizers: Lifewriting Annual is a forum for the discussion of all aspects of lifewriting—theoretical, critical, and scholarly. We hope that its broad scope fosters lively discussion about the ways that various forms of lifewriting inform each other. We seek critical and scholarly essays and reviews on biography, autobiography, memoir, journals, diaries, and letters …

November 2023

Fellowship: The American Research Institute in Turkey (ARIT), 2024-25, November 1, 2023

November 1, 2023

The American Research Institute in Turkey (ARIT) is pleased to announce 2024-2025 fellowship programs for students and scholars based in the U.S. and Canada: ARIT Fellowships for Research in Turkey support research in ancient, medieval, or modern times, in any field of the humanities and social sciences. Post-doctoral and doctoral dissertation fellowships may be held …

Position opening: Assistant Professor in Early Modern / Modern Islam, The Department of Religious Studies at Northwestern University, November 1, 2023

November 1, 2023

The Department of Religious Studies at Northwestern University invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track appointment at the rank of Assistant Professor for a specialist in Islam in any geographical area in the early modern or modern periods, broadly defined. Successful candidates will combine their research interests with questions of theory and method in the study …

Conference: MESA’s 57th Annual Meeting, Montréal, Québec, Canada, November 2-5, 2023

November 2, 2023 - November 5, 2023

The 57th MESA annual meeting will be held at the Palais des congrès de Montréal from November 2-5. We will host a robust conference with over 350 sessions, plus several special events. The online searchable program is available now. A preliminary program in PDF format will be available later in August. Please see MESA’s website for …

Conference: 10th IDHN Conference, November 9, 2023

November 9, 2023

From the organizers: We are inviting you to our 10th IDHN Conference on November 9, 2023. Attached to this email, you will find the program of the conference together with the registration link. We will hear four exciting presentations: Joshua Little (Independent): Revolutionising Hadith Diagrams: A New Resource for the Field 2. Ali Aghaei (Paderborn University): Digital …

Position opening: Assistant Professor in Islamic Southeast Asia, Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies at UC Berkeley, November 10, 2023

November 10, 2023

The University of California at Berkeley is hiring a full-time, tenure-track Assistant Professor specializing in the Islamic Worlds of Southeast Asia, in the Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies. The successful candidate will have a rigorous grounding in the culture, literature or history of one or more Islamic communities or movements in Southeast Asia. …

Virtual talk: “The New Crusades: Islamophobia and the Global War on Muslims” with Khaled Beydoun, Rutgers Law School, November 14, 2023 @ 12:00 p.m.

November 14, 2023 @ 12:00 - 13:00

Abstract: Islamophobia has spiraled into a global menace, and democratic and authoritarian regimes alike have deployed it as a strategy to persecute their Muslim populations. With this book, Khaled A. Beydoun details how the American War on Terror has facilitated and intensified the network of anti-Muslim campaigns unfolding across the world. The New Crusades is …

Call for Papers: American Oriental Society’s 234th Meeting, November 15, 2023

November 15, 2023

Members of the Society are hereby invited to Submit Abstracts of Communications to be presented at the 234th Meeting. (Select the Abstracts of Communications Folder, and upload to that folder.)Alternatively, you may submit abstracts by email attachment. Use “AOS Abstracts” in the subject line. Abstracts must be in Microsoft Word format or .pdf produced from MS Word. Please name your abstract …