Call for Papers: Annual Comparative Law Work-in-Progress Workshop, November 15, 2023

Annual Comparative Law Work-in-Progress Workshop January 18-20, 2024  Announcement and Call for Papers  Co-Organized and Co-Hosted by Kim Lane Scheppele (Princeton University) Jacques deLisle (University of Pennsylvania Law School), and Jacqueline Ross (University of Illinois College of Law) And the American Society of Comparative Law Hosting institution this year:  Princeton University Center for Human Values

Webinar: “Legal Canons as Precedent: The Contested Case of Bughaybigha, 661-883” by Intisar Rabb, Princeton Islamic Studies Colloquium, November 15, 2023 @ 3:30 p.m.

This is a hybrid event hosted by the Princeton Islamic Studies Colloquium. Professor Intisar Rabb (Harvard University) will present her research titled “Legal Canons as Precedent: The Contested Case of Bughaybigha, 661-883.”  The event will take place at Princeton University, 1879 Hall, Room 137.  Those wishing to attend via Zoom can register here.

Talk: “Chasing Floods: the Ottoman Introduction of Rice in the Balkan Peninsula” by Aleksandar Shopov, CMES, Harvard University, November 15, 2023

From the CMES website: Date: Wednesday, November 15, 2023, 6:00pm to 7:30pm; Location: CMES, Rm 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA 02138 The CMES Disaster Studies Initiative is pleased to present Aleksandar Shopov, Visiting Scholar, CMES; Assistant Professor, History, SUNY Binghamton University. For more details, visit here.

Seminar: “Revisiting History: Nurullah Shushtari on ShÄ«’Ä« Historiography, Taqiyya & The Pre-Savafid Era” by Shahrad Shahvand, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program, Harvard University, November 16, 2023

Date: Thursday, November 16, 2023, 12:00pm to 1:30pm; Location: TBD Shahrad Shahvand, Alwaleed Bin Talal Postdoctoral Fellow Co-sponsor: Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and Persian and Persianate Studies Seminar, Mahindra Humanities

Talk: “The ‘Khitat’ of al-Maqrizi: Narrating History on the Tempo of ‘Kharab’” by Nasser Rabat, CMES, Harvard University, November 28, 2023

From the CMES website: Date: Tuesday, November 28, 2023, 5:00pm to 6:30pm; Location: CMES, Rm 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA 02138 The CMES Disaster Studies Initiative presents Nasser Rabbat Aga Khan Professor and Director of the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture,  MIT Nasser Rabbat is the Aga Khan Professor and Director of the Aga Khan Program for

Talk: “Locusts of Power” by Samuel Dolbee, CMES, Harvard University, November 29, 2023

From the CMES website: Date: Wednesday, November 29, 2023, 6:00pm to 7:30pm; Location: CMES, Rm 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA 02138 The CMES Environmental Studies of the Middle East Speaker Series is pleased to present Samuel Dolbee, Assistant Professor of History, Family Dean’s Faculty Fellow in Studies of the Middle East, Vanderbilt University Samuel Dolbee, Assistant Professor, Vanderbilt