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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171004T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171004T190000
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SUMMARY:Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program’s Faculty and Student Annual Fall Mixer
DESCRIPTION:Join the program for a casual get-together with faculty\, graduate students\, visiting fellows and scholars in the field of Islamic studies.
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/prince-alwaleed-bin-talal-islamic-studies-programs-faculty-and-student-annual-fall-mixer/
LOCATION:Thompson Room\, Barker Center\, 12 Quincy Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171006T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171006T180000
DTSTAMP:20260406T112613
CREATED:20171002T152234Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171002T152234Z
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SUMMARY:Islamic Law and its Implementation in Asia and The Middle-East
DESCRIPTION:The conference will focus on the topic of Islamic law and the implementation of Islamic law in Asia and the Middle East. \nConference Themes\n\nIslamic Law and Freedom of Religion or Belief\nConstitutionalism And Human Rights in Arab & Muslim World\nWomen’s Rights and Modern Muslim Practices\nIslamic Law: International Terrorism\, Radicalisation and Religious Extremism\nFinance and Succession in Islamic Law\n\nSpeakers\n\nSir Michael Wood\, KCMG\, Member of the UN International Law Commission.\nDr Muhammed Shabir Korotana \,Brunel University\nDr Ahmed Shaheed\, Essex University\, UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion and belief.\nProfessor Surya Subedi OBE\, Leeds University\, former UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Cambodia.\nProfessor Shaheen Saradar Ali\, Warwick University\, former Vice-Chair UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detentions.\nProfessor Mashood A Baderin\, SOAS\, former UN Independent Expert on Situation of human rights in Sudan.\nProfessor Robert Gleave\, Exeter University Professor of Arabic Studies.\nDr. iur. Damos Dumoli Agusman\, Secretary of Directorate General Legal Affairs\, Indonesia.\nProfessor Umut Turksen\, Coventry University
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/islamic-law-and-its-implementation-in-asia-and-the-middle-east/
LOCATION:British Institute of International and Comparative Law\, Charles Clore House\, 17 Russell Square\, London\, WC1B 5JP\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:conferences and workshops,lectures and talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171016T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171016T170000
DTSTAMP:20260406T112613
CREATED:20170926T181705Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170926T181705Z
UID:10000868-1508167800-1508173200@pil.law.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Business History Seminar: Legal Change and Business Enterprise in the Middle East\, 1850-Present
DESCRIPTION:Seven Agir\, Middle East Technical University\, Turkey\, will present and discuss his work as part of Harvard Business School’s Business History Seminar at the Chao Center.
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/business-history-seminar-legal-change-and-business-enterprise-in-the-middle-east-1850-present/
LOCATION:Chao Center\, Elaine Conference Room 300\, Harvard Business School
CATEGORIES:conferences and workshops,lectures and talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171016T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171016T220000
DTSTAMP:20260406T112613
CREATED:20170921T203758Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170921T203758Z
UID:10000842-1508180400-1508191200@pil.law.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:ILSP FILM SCREENING :: A SEPARATION
DESCRIPTION:Come see 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 Foreign Language Film\, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. Sponsored by ILSP: SHARIAsource. Dinner and refreshments provided. Please RSVP to adavis@law.harvard.edu \n 
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/ilsp-film-screening-a-separation/
CATEGORIES:SHARIAsource events
ORGANIZER;CN="ILSP%3A SHARIAsource":MAILTO:shariasource@law.harvard.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20171018
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20171019
DTSTAMP:20260406T112613
CREATED:20170926T183013Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170926T183013Z
UID:10000870-1508284800-1508371199@pil.law.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:CFP: Law at the Crossroads: Le Droit a la Croisée des Chemins
DESCRIPTION:For thousands of years the place where the City of Toronto is located has been a crossroad where many peoples have met and had fruitful exchanges. According to some Indigenous knowledge keepers\, the word “Toronto” comes from the Wendat term for a fishing weir constructed of sticks standing in the water. Lake and river fishing has been an important activity for the area’s many Indigenous peoples\, including Huron-Wendat\, Haudenosaunee\, Mississauga and Chippewa. The Indigenous knowledge frameworks and laws of the peoples of this area encourage a multilayered understanding of an item such as a fishing weir in terms of its natural\, sacred\, practical and social meanings. \nThe area continues to be home to many Indigenous people from all over Canada and beyond\, but Toronto has also been shaped by immigration flows from many parts of the world\, with about half of its current residents being born outside of Canada. \nThe Law and Society Association and the Canadian Law and Society Association hope that our joint meeting in Toronto will be creative and fruitful\, in keeping with the traditional use of this land as a gathering place\, and that visitors to the area will take the opportunity to make new connections not only with one another but also with diverse local communities.\nThis year’s Program Committee is Chair is Mariana Valverde\, University of Toronto. \nWe invite the submission of Individual Papers and/or Session proposals. Papers and panels need not be centered on the conference theme. Proposals on any law and society topic are welcome.\nYou will find the Call at www.lawandsociety.org/Toronto2018/toronto2018.html \nIn the Call you will find more information about the theme\, submission instructions\, and more. We will be adding more meeting information as time progresses. \nThe deadline for proposal submission is October 18\, 2017. \nRegistration will begin in early February\, 2018.
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/cfp-law-at-the-crossroads-le-droit-a-la-croisee-des-chemins/
CATEGORIES:Call for papers,Due dates,Opportunities
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171020T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171020T130000
DTSTAMP:20260406T112613
CREATED:20170921T205358Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170921T205358Z
UID:10000844-1508500800-1508504400@pil.law.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:ILSP LUNCH TALK :: Mapping Islam in Constitutions
DESCRIPTION:Dawood Ahmed\, SJD Candidate\, University of Chicago\nDawood Ahmed will discuss his work on comparative Islamic constitutionalism.
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/ilsp-lunch-talk-mapping-islam-in-constitutions/
LOCATION:Austin 102\, Austin Hall\, Harvard Law School\, United States
CATEGORIES:lectures and talks,SHARIAsource events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171020T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171020T170000
DTSTAMP:20260406T112613
CREATED:20170921T205906Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170921T205906Z
UID:10000852-1508511600-1508518800@pil.law.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:COMPARATIVE INTERNATIONAL LAW WORKSHOP :: Colonialism and Constitutional Islamization
DESCRIPTION:Dawood Ahmed\, Comparative Constitutions Project\, University of Chicago Law School\nFor Harvard affiliates only. RSVP to adavis@law.harvard.edu for room location and paper.
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/comparative-international-law-workshop-colonialism-and-constitutional-islamization/
LOCATION:Harvard Law School
CATEGORIES:conferences and workshops,SHARIAsource events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171023T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171023T130000
DTSTAMP:20260406T112613
CREATED:20170921T205523Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170921T205523Z
UID:10000846-1508760000-1508763600@pil.law.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:ILSP LUNCH TALK :: RESURRECTING THE ANCIENT JURISTS IN PRINT
DESCRIPTION:Ahmed El Shamsy\, Visiting Fellow\, ILSP: SHARIAsource\, Harvard Law School\nThe publication of al-Shāfiʿī’s (d. 204/820) multivolume magnum opus\, al-Umm\, in 1903-7 opened a window into early Islamic legal thought and provided the basis for all subsequent historiography of Islamic law. However\, the work’s publication was anything but inevitable: though it is today considered a seminal text\, in the late nineteenth century the Umm\, like the writings of most other early jurists\, languished in obscurity. Examining how and why the Umm was published thus offers surprising insights into the state of Islamic legal literature in the early twentieth century and its relationship to its long history. 
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/ilsp-lunch-talk-resurrecting-the-ancient-jurists-in-print/
LOCATION:Austin 102\, Austin Hall\, Harvard Law School\, United States
CATEGORIES:lectures and talks,SHARIAsource events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171023T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171023T170000
DTSTAMP:20260406T112613
CREATED:20171030T152213Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171030T152213Z
UID:10000910-1508772600-1508778000@pil.law.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Panel on Optical Character Recognition
DESCRIPTION:Today’s scholars expect Optical Character Recognition (OCR) of texts in library collections.   Despite expectations that all texts are equally discoverable\, we know that countless handwritten manuscripts and documents in non-Roman fonts have neither been OCR’ed nor transcribed.   Three esteemed Harvard colleagues will discuss OCR projects that promise to open up vast quantities of knowledge to digital researchers. \n\nSharon Tai\, Deputy Editor at SHARIAsource will talk about Arabic OCR.\nDonald Sturgeon\, a postdoctoral fellow at the Fairbank Center of Chinese Studies\, will tell us about his work with Chinese texts.\nAmy Benson\, Librarian/Archivist for Digital Projects at Schlesinger Library\, will share how they aim to make handwriting searchable.\n\nJoin us for what is sure to be an informative discussion as our panelists share both the successes and challenges of their work. \n 
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/panel-on-optical-character-recognition/
LOCATION:Lamont Forum Room\, Harvard University
CATEGORIES:lectures and talks
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171024T050000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171024T190000
DTSTAMP:20260406T112613
CREATED:20170921T210008Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170921T210008Z
UID:10000854-1508821200-1508871600@pil.law.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:COMPARATIVE INTERNATIONAL LAW WORKSHOP :: Consistency and Compatibility in Hybrid Lawmaking Structures: The Curious Case of Iran
DESCRIPTION:Maliheh Zare\, SJD Candidate\, NYU Law School\nFor Harvard affiliates only. RSVP to adavis@law.harvard.edu for room location and paper.
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/comparative-international-law-workshop-consistency-and-compatibility-in-hybrid-lawmaking-structures-the-curious-case-of-iran/
LOCATION:Harvard Law School
CATEGORIES:conferences and workshops,SHARIAsource events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171027T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171027T103000
DTSTAMP:20260406T112613
CREATED:20171030T151940Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171030T151940Z
UID:10000908-1509094800-1509100200@pil.law.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:HLS Bicentennial Panel: God on Mass Ave.
DESCRIPTION:Apart from the constant of student prayer before exams\, the study of religion and law has changed and evolved over the years at the law school. On one hand\, faculty and alumni on the courts have long engaged the topic of church and state in U.S. constitutional law\, making important contributions to doctrine and practice. On the other\, faculty have delved deeply into world religions and their legal traditions\, especially those of Islam\, Christianity\, and Hinduism\, as well as Judaism\, the ancestral (and sometimes vestigial) faith of many faculty in the second half of the 20th century. This panel will explore both sides of this engagement with religion and law and provide insight into divine and domestic law at HLS\, then and now. \nSpeakers: \nNoah Feldman\, Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law\, Harvard Law School \nIntisar Rabb\, Professor of Law\, Harvard Law School \nCharles Donahue\, Paul A. Freund Professor of Law\, Harvard Law School
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/hls-bicentennial-panel-god-on-mass-ave/
LOCATION:Wasserstein 2009\, Wasserstein\, Harvard Law School
CATEGORIES:lectures and talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171028T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171028T160000
DTSTAMP:20260406T112613
CREATED:20171030T152732Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171030T152732Z
UID:10000912-1509199200-1509206400@pil.law.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Panel at the American Society for Legal History Annual Meeting: From Bureaucracy to Jihad: Islamic Law in the Colonial Era
DESCRIPTION:Chair & Commentator: Intisar Rabb\, Harvard University \nMichael O’Sullivan\, UCLA\nThe “Muslim Bank” in a Late Imperial Age\, 1908–1925 \nAri Schriber\, Harvard University (schriber@g.harvard.edu)\nThe Transformation of the Qadi in Protectorate Morocco \nAdnan Zulfiqar\, Rutgers Law School (adnan.zulfiqar@rutgers.edu)\nViolent Necessity: Enacting Jihad in the Colonial Period
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/panel-at-the-american-society-for-legal-history-annual-meeting-from-bureaucracy-to-jihad-islamic-law-in-the-colonial-era/
LOCATION:Red Rock Casino Resort Spa\, Las Vegas\, Nevada
CATEGORIES:conferences and workshops,lectures and talks
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171107T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171107T190000
DTSTAMP:20260406T112613
CREATED:20170921T210323Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170921T210323Z
UID:10000855-1510074000-1510081200@pil.law.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:COMPARATIVE INTERNATIONAL LAW WORKSHOP :: Designing Constitutions from Divided Societies: Lessons from Afghanistan
DESCRIPTION:Clark Lombardi\, Professor of Law; University of Washington School of Law\nFor Harvard affiliates only. RSVP to adavis@law.harvard.edu for room location and paper.
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/comparative-international-law-workshop-designing-constitutions-from-divided-societies-lessons-from-afghanistan/
LOCATION:Harvard Law School
CATEGORIES:conferences and workshops,SHARIAsource events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171113T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171113T130000
DTSTAMP:20260406T112613
CREATED:20170921T205652Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170921T205652Z
UID:10000848-1510574400-1510578000@pil.law.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:ILSP LUNCH TALK :: THE M WORD: LEGAL CONSTRUCTIONS OF MUSLIM IDENTITY IN THE U.S.
DESCRIPTION:Seval Yildirim\, Visiting Researcher\, ILSP: SHARIAsource\, Harvard Law School\nProfessor Yildirim will discuss her work-in-progress exploring the legal construction of Muslim identity through a study of U.S. court cases dating back to the 19th century. The paper identifies three distinct typologies of how courts have defined Muslim identity and the broader political and normative implications of legal construction of minority identities in the United States.
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/ilsp-lunch-talk-the-m-word-legal-constructions-of-muslim-identity-in-the-u-s/
LOCATION:Austin 102\, Austin Hall\, Harvard Law School\, United States
CATEGORIES:lectures and talks,SHARIAsource events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171114T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171114T190000
DTSTAMP:20260406T112613
CREATED:20170921T210421Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170921T210421Z
UID:10000856-1510678800-1510686000@pil.law.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:COMPARATIVE INTERNATIONAL LAW WORKSHOP :: Against Militant Democracy
DESCRIPTION:Seval Yildirim\, Visiting Researcher\, ILSP: SHARIAsource\, Harvard Law School\nFor Harvard affiliates only. RSVP to adavis@law.harvard.edu for room location and paper.
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/comparative-international-law-workshop-against-militant-democracy/
LOCATION:Harvard Law School
CATEGORIES:conferences and workshops,SHARIAsource events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171116T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171117T093000
DTSTAMP:20260406T112613
CREATED:20170926T175429Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170926T175429Z
UID:10000863-1510822800-1510911000@pil.law.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:MELA Presentation: SHARIAsource: The Online Portal for Academic Content and Context on Islamic Law
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: \nAslihan Bulut \nLibrary Editor\nILSP: SHARIAsource\nLibrarian and Program Coordinator for Foreign\, Comparative\, and International Law\nHarvard Law School \nSharon Tai\nILSP: SHARIAsource\,\nHarvard Law School \nAslihan Bulut and Sharon Tai will discuss the information management of SHARIAsource.
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/mela-presentation-shariasource-the-online-portal-for-academic-content-and-context-on-islamic-law/
LOCATION:Washington DC
CATEGORIES:conferences and workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171116T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171116T130000
DTSTAMP:20260406T112613
CREATED:20171112T174302Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171112T174302Z
UID:10000922-1510833600-1510837200@pil.law.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:ILSP Lunch Talk: A History Without Gaps: Legal Maxims and the Evolution of Islamic Law
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Mariam Sheibani\, PhD Candidate\, University of Chicago  \nThe emergence and functions of legal maxims in Islamic law remains an understudied field in Islamic legal history. Scholars have noted early interest in maxims in the tenth and eleventh centuries\, followed by a period of dormancy prior to the eruption of maxim treatises in the fourteenth century. This has led some scholars to speak of a period of stagnation of the genre during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. I closely study the terminological and conceptual evolution of maxims in Shāfiʿī legal literature from the founding of the school in the ninth century to the emergence of maxim treatises in the fourteenth century. Examining this evolution not only provides a history of maxims without gaps\, but it also offers unexpected insights about the significant role of maxims in negotiating jurists’ competing visions of the law\, in the consolidation of the legal schools and in legal practice inside and outside the courts.
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/ilsp-lunch-talk-a-history-without-gaps-legal-maxims-and-the-evolution-of-islamic-law-2/
LOCATION:Austin 102\, Austin Hall\, Harvard Law School\, United States
CATEGORIES:SHARIAsource events
ORGANIZER;CN="ILSP%3A SHARIAsource":MAILTO:shariasource@law.harvard.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171116T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171116T130000
DTSTAMP:20260406T112613
CREATED:20171108T155933Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171108T155933Z
UID:10000921-1510833600-1510837200@pil.law.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:ILSP Lunch Talk :: A History Without Gaps: Legal Maxims and the Evolution of Islamic Law
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Mariam Sheibani\, PhD Candidate\, University of Chicago \nMariam Sheibani surveys the terminological and conceptual evolution of maxims in Shāfiʿī legal literature from the founding of the school in the ninth century to the emergence of maxim treatises in the fourteenth century. Examining this evolution not only provides a history of maxims without gaps\, but it also offers unexpected insights about the significant role of maxims in negotiating jurists’ competing visions of the law. \nMediterranean lunch will be provided. \nRSVP by emailing shariasource@law.harvard.edu
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/ilsp-lunch-talk-a-history-without-gaps-legal-maxims-and-the-evolution-of-islamic-law/
LOCATION:Austin 102\, Austin Hall\, Harvard Law School\, United States
CATEGORIES:lectures and talks,SHARIAsource events
ORGANIZER;CN="ILSP%3A SHARIAsource":MAILTO:shariasource@law.harvard.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171117T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171117T133000
DTSTAMP:20260406T112613
CREATED:20171114T001143Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171114T001143Z
UID:10000925-1510921800-1510925400@pil.law.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Institute for Advanced Study Digital Scholarship Conversations :: Digital Islamic Law: Prospects and Pitfalls
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: \nIntisar A. Rabb\nHarvard Law School \nSharon Tai\nSHARIAsource \n*You may bring your lunch or purchase lunch at the Institute’s Dining Hall from 12:00 noon. Please RSVP to ds@ias.edu.
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/institute-for-advanced-study-digital-scholarship-conversations-digital-islamic-law-prospects-and-pitfalls/
LOCATION:Institute for Advanced Study\, Princeton\, NJ
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20171118
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20171122
DTSTAMP:20260406T112613
CREATED:20170926T174351Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170926T174351Z
UID:10000862-1510963200-1511308799@pil.law.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:MESA Annual Meeting
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/mesa-annual-meeting/
LOCATION:Marriott Wardman Park Hotel\, 2660 Woodley Rd NW\, Washington\, DC\, 20008
CATEGORIES:conferences and workshops
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171121T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171121T100000
DTSTAMP:20260406T112613
CREATED:20170926T174207Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170926T174207Z
UID:10000861-1511251200-1511258400@pil.law.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:2017 MESA: Judicial activism in the field of Egyptian shari‘a-derived family law
DESCRIPTION:Presenter: Monika Lindbekk  \nThis paper analyzes aspects of judicial activism in the field of Egyptian personal status law for Muslims. In a country where reform of the current personal status codes is politically fraught\, family court judges perform an important semi-legislative task in interpreting and applying the law. Taking this as a point of departure\, the paper argues that courts are an important site for exercising Islamic authority and positioning citizens as religious subjects. Among other things\, family courts in Egypt contribute to an ongoing discourse on what constitutes the ideal family. In doing so\, family court judges help consolidate increasingly hegemonic notions of the nuclear family and conjugal marriage clothed in the Quranic language of mercy and amity (rahma wa mawadda). Thus\, contemporary family courts continuously re-inscribe shari‘a in state law and construct its meaning in a way which differs from classical Islamic jurisprudence (fiqh). This tendency has been reinforced by the introduction of computer technology with the stated aim of rationalizing legal practice by making it more uniform. The aforementioned developments in the family courts of Egypt resemble those that have occurred over the past few years in family courts of Tunisia and sharia courts of Malaysia where the same ‘rationalized Islam’ (in the sense of unified and standard) has been found to be at work. The introduction of computerization\, which involves the same paragraphs being reproduced over and over through the medium of templates\, provides a powerful impetus for the streamlining of judicial practice. However\, in the years following the 2011 uprising\, individual judges also used the courts as a platform to articulate alternative discourses. In the post-revolutionary environment\, they clearly crossed the border between adjudication and legislation by participating in public debate and becoming members of a legislative committee tasked with comprehensive family law reform.This paper analyzes the implications of judicial activism against a background where old and new actors and institutions competed over the right to interpret shari‘a in an authoritative way.
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/2017-mesa-judicial-activism-in-the-field-of-egyptian-sharia-derived-family-law/
LOCATION:Marriott Wardman Park Hotel\, 2660 Woodley Rd NW\, Washington\, DC\, 20008
CATEGORIES:conferences and workshops
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171124T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171124T170000
DTSTAMP:20260406T112613
CREATED:20171030T153423Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171030T153423Z
UID:10000914-1511510400-1511542800@pil.law.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Governance and Violence in Islamic Law Workshop
DESCRIPTION:This one-day workshop is held under the auspices of the USPPIP project (Understanding Sharia: Past Perfect\, Imperfect Present) and will be hosted by the University of Exeter.  The workshop will cover the specific focus of two elements of the project – violence (studied by Exeter USPPIP research team) and governance (studied by the Bergen USPPIP research team).  The workshop will be convened by the USPPIP team members Drs Omar Anchassi and Eirik Hovden and Professors Robert Gleave and Knut Vikor.
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/governance-and-violence-in-islamic-law-workshop/
LOCATION:University of Exeter\, Exeter\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:conferences and workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171127T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171127T130000
DTSTAMP:20260406T112613
CREATED:20171114T165129Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171114T165129Z
UID:10000927-1511784000-1511787600@pil.law.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:ILSP Lunch Talk :: Research Methods: Studying Court Narratives through Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing
DESCRIPTION:Sharon Tai\, SHARIAsource Deputy Editor and Ali Hashmi\, former MIT Media Lab Fellow\, use natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning techniques to build a taxonomy of entities for SHARIAsource’s collection of cases of Islamic law in U.S. Courts\, including cases of family law and religious accommodation. From there\, comparison of state courts with overall federal courts using computational text analysis methods allows for insights into whether there is consistency of themes and considerations between lower and upper court decisions. This can allow researchers to identify spots of bias\, sentiment\, and missing considerations that become future questions about the narrative created by U.S. Courts in dealing with Islamic law. Details.
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/ilsp-lunch-talk-research-methods-studying-court-narratives-through-machine-learning-and-natural-language-processing/
LOCATION:Austin 102\, Austin Hall\, Harvard Law School\, United States
CATEGORIES:lectures and talks,SHARIAsource events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171128T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171128T130000
DTSTAMP:20260406T112613
CREATED:20171030T165747Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171030T165747Z
UID:10000920-1511870400-1511874000@pil.law.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:HLS Law Library Faculty Book Talk: Justice and Leadership in Early Islamic Courts
DESCRIPTION:A panel to discuss Professor Intisar Rabb’s soon-to-be released book co-edited with Abigail Krasner Balbale\, Justice and Leadership in Early Islamic Courts\, composed in honor of Roy Parviz Mottahedeh. \n 
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/hls-law-library-faculty-book-talk-justice-and-leadership-in-early-islamic-courts/
LOCATION:Lewis 214A\, Harvard Law School
CATEGORIES:lectures and talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171130T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171130T180000
DTSTAMP:20260406T112613
CREATED:20171114T180045Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171114T180045Z
UID:10000929-1512057600-1512064800@pil.law.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Twelver Imami Shiite Views on the Variant Readings of the Quran: Legal and Theological Implications
DESCRIPTION:Shady Nasser\nAssistant Professor\, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations\, Harvard University \nProfessor Nasser teaches Arabic literature as well as Islamic Civilizations courses. He previous posting was as a University Lecturer in Classical Arabic studies at the University of Cambridge (UK)\, in the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies. Shady started his PhD at Harvard University in Arabic and Islamic studies under the supervision of Wolfhart Heinrichs. He completed his PhD in 2011. From 2009-2012 he was a senior lector of Arabic and the coordinator of the Arabic language program at Yale University. In 2013\, he was appointed University Lecturer in Classical Arabic studies at the University of Cambridge (UK). Nasser’s research interest is Qur’anic studies in general with particular focus on the history of the transmission of the text\, its language\, and its reception among the early Muslim community. Pre-Islamic and early Islamic poetry\, Akhbār Literature\, and Ḥadith transmission\, are also among Nasser’s research interests. \nCo-sponsors: The Committee on Study of Religion\, The Center for Middle Eastern Studies\, Islamic Legal Studies Program (Law & Social Change)\, Julius-Rabinowitz Program on Jewish & Israeli Law
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/twelver-imami-shiite-views-on-the-variant-readings-of-the-quran-legal-and-theological-implications/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel 262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, United States
CATEGORIES:lectures and talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171204T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171204T130000
DTSTAMP:20260406T112613
CREATED:20170921T205743Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170921T205743Z
UID:10000850-1512388800-1512392400@pil.law.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:ILSP LUNCH TALK
DESCRIPTION:Rodrigo Adem\, ILSP: SHARIAsource Visiting Fellow\, Harvard Law School; College Fellow\, Harvard University Department of History
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/ilsp-lunch-talk/
LOCATION:Austin 102\, Austin Hall\, Harvard Law School\, United States
CATEGORIES:SHARIAsource events
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20171215
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20171216
DTSTAMP:20260406T112613
CREATED:20171113T212412Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171113T212412Z
UID:10000924-1513296000-1513382399@pil.law.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:UC Berkeley Near Eastern Studies Graduate Conference April 2018
DESCRIPTION:The Near Eastern Studies graduate students at UC Berkeley would like to invite the graduate students of your department to participate in the 2018 UC Berkeley Near Eastern Studies Graduate Student Conference. Please find our full Call for Papers on our website (jagnesjournal.wordpress.com)\, we would greatly appreciate if you could distribute this to your department’s students and any other relevant audiences. \nThe title of this year’s symposium is\, Hard Times: Critical Approaches to Crisis and its Aftermath. From our perspective as students and scholars of the Near East\, hard times have become an uncritical staple of contemporary discourse regarding the Middle East. In the news\, in the streets and even in our classrooms\, the Middle East is often framed as an outworldly difficult place\, defined by its hardships and catastrophes. In our conference\, we wish not to deny this notion (at least\, not offhandedly)\, but to complicate it by considering it from a diverse array of critical perspectives. \nTo that end\, the Near Eastern Studies Department and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of California\, Berkeley\, invite papers situated within\, working against and expanding on the question of hard times in related fields of the Near East. Individual paper topics may include (but are not limited to) the following: Opposition and counter-narratives\, The future(s) of Near Eastern Studies\, Borders and border politics\, Resistance in the Ancient World\, Crisis and Archaeological Cultural Heritage\, Persistence of instability as a trope in Near Eastern and Middle Eastern Studies\, Precarity and its poetics\, Beyond the geopolitical narrative of crisis (environmental\, social\, existential crises)\, and Representation of crisis in aesthetics (literature\, plastic art\, etc.). \nThe conference will take place on April 27-28th\, 2018 at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) on the UC Berkeley campus\, consisting of two days of thematically-organized panel sessions. Faculty will serve as the respondents for each of the panels. On Friday evening\, Professor Miriam Cooke will give the keynote lecture addressing the conference theme. \nApplicants should submit an abstract of no more than 250 words by December 15th\, 2017. Please fill out the abstract submission form on our website. Paper presentations should be approximately 20 minutes in length\, which will be followed by a short\, discussant-led question and answer session. \nPlease do not hesitate to contact us with any additional questions. For more information about registration\, travel & accommodation\, please visit our website. Questions about the conference should be directed to jagnes@berkeley.edu.
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/uc-berkeley-near-eastern-studies-graduate-conference-april-2018/
LOCATION:UC Berkeley
CATEGORIES:Applications,conferences and workshops,Opportunities
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20171218
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20171219
DTSTAMP:20260406T112613
CREATED:20171113T120539Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171113T120539Z
UID:10000923-1513555200-1513641599@pil.law.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Law and Society Association 2018 Junior Scholar Workshop
DESCRIPTION:JUNIOR SCHOLARS WORKSHOP \nThe Law and Society Association is pleased to announce our Junior Scholar Workshop will begin mid-day on Tuesday\, June 5\, and continue through the day on Wednesday\, June 6\, 2018. The workshop immediately precedes the 2018 joint Annual Meetings of the Law and Society Association and the Canadian Law and Society Association in Toronto\, Ontario\, Canada. \n  \nWe invite applications from junior scholars in any field whose scholarly interests involve socio-legal studies. Specifically\, we welcome applications from graduate students (including advanced law students)\, post-doctoral fellows\, and assistant professors (or other pre-tenure faculty). \n  \nPlease complete the submission form by December 18 to be a part of the 2018 Junior Scholar Workshop. The LSA workshops have a competitive application process\, and those applicants selected as members of the cohort will be informed prior to February 1\, 2018. \n  \nAPPLY HERE \n  \nPlease contact Ashley Rubin\, chair of the Junior Scholar Workshop Committee\, with questions at ashley.rubin@utoronto.ca.
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/law-and-society-association-announcements-2018-junior-scholar-workshop-and-trustee-elections/
CATEGORIES:Applications,conferences and workshops
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180101
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180114
DTSTAMP:20260406T112613
CREATED:20171114T182304Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171114T182304Z
UID:10000960-1514764800-1515887999@pil.law.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:USPPIP Summer School for Early Career Researchers: "Uses of the Past in Islamic Law”
DESCRIPTION:Advanced notice: the First “Uses of the Past in Islamic Law” Summer School for Early Career Researchers\, July 2018.  In early January\, USPPIP will open for applications from advanced PhD students and recently graduated PhD students/Post-doctoral researchers.  The travel and accommodation expenses of all participants will be covered by USPPIP. Details in the next USPPIP bulletin.
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/usppip-summer-school-for-early-career-researchers-uses-of-the-past-in-islamic-law/
CATEGORIES:conferences and workshops
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180109
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180112
DTSTAMP:20260406T112613
CREATED:20171030T154034Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171030T154034Z
UID:10000916-1515456000-1515715199@pil.law.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Islamic Law and Sexuality Conference 9th – 11th January 2018\, University of Exeter
DESCRIPTION:This two day workshop aims to investigate questions of Islamic law and sexuality\, broadly conceived\, including but not limited to such subjects as il/legitimate sex\, communal perceptions of sexuality\, marriage\, sexual violence\, gender\, concubinage and sexual consent.  We are interested in shifting patterns of argumentation and in the formation of legal categories; how did pre-modern jurists conceptualise the legitimate expression of sexuality\, for example?  How have these boundaries shifted in the modern period?  How have modern jurists and others drawn on the legacy of the past in thinking through these questions?  And what are some of the fundamental dynamics underlying these processes of change?  Our papers address the construction of these categories and their reformulation in the modern period.  For the purposes of this workshop we are concerned with the fiqhī heritage itself as well as its representation and deployment in modern legal argument.  What did pre-modern jurists think about these subjects and how has thinking changed or otherwise; if so\, what explains these dis/continuities? \nKeynote lecture to be delivered by Kecia Ali.
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/islamic-law-and-sexuality-conference-9th-11th-january-2018-university-of-exeter/
LOCATION:University of Exeter\, Exeter\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:conferences and workshops
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