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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171027T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171027T103000
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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:20260408T165442
CREATED:20171030T152732Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171030T152732Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171107T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171107T190000
DTSTAMP:20260408T165442
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:20260408T165442
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171114T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171114T190000
DTSTAMP:20260408T165442
CREATED:20170921T210421Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170921T210421Z
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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:20260408T165442
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:20260408T165442
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171116T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171116T130000
DTSTAMP:20260408T165442
CREATED:20171108T155933Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171117T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171117T133000
DTSTAMP:20260408T165442
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:20260408T165442
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:20260408T165442
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171124T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171124T170000
DTSTAMP:20260408T165442
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171127T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171127T130000
DTSTAMP:20260408T165442
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171128T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171128T130000
DTSTAMP:20260408T165442
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171130T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171130T180000
DTSTAMP:20260408T165442
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171204T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171204T130000
DTSTAMP:20260408T165442
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20171215
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20171216
DTSTAMP:20260408T165442
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:20260408T165442
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180101
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180114
DTSTAMP:20260408T165442
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180109
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180112
DTSTAMP:20260408T165442
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180115
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180116
DTSTAMP:20260408T165442
CREATED:20180122T184702Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180122T184702Z
UID:10000805-1515974400-1516060799@pil.law.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:The RCSL-SDJ Lisbon Meeting 2018: "Law and Citizenship Beyond The States”
DESCRIPTION:The conference will discuss\, among other topics of sociology of law and justice\, the contribution of law to the power of citizens\, at a time of increasing competition between state law\, once the main source of people’s rights\, and multiple global and local normativities. Proposals due January 15. \n​The meeting is co-sponsored by the Sociology of Law and Justice Section of the Portuguese Sociological Association. It is organized by DINÂMIA’CET-IUL\, a research unit of ISCTE-IUL \, which gives the Local Organizing Committee its institutional framework and administrative support\, in partnership with the following partner research units: CES (Coimbra)\, CICS.NOVA (Braga\, Lisbon)\, CIES (ISCTE-IUL\, Lisbon)\, and CRIA (Lisbon\, Braga)\, as well as with the International Institute for the Sociology of Law (Oñati). On top of these academic partnerships\, we pretend also to involve personalities and entities from outside the world of science\, for this meeting to be itself\, as far as possible\, an experience of citizenry beyond the states. \n​It is the second initiative of RCSL during the year 2018\, since the RCSL will also participate in the ISA World Congress in Toronto\, 15-21 July 2018. Other recent RCSL meetings took place in Vienna\, July 2016\, within the framework of the 3rd ISA-Forum\, and México City\, June 2017\, where RCSL was a sponsor of the International Meeting on Law and Society. \n​It is the third meeting of the recently created Sociology of Law and Justice Section of the Portuguese Sociological Association\, which held their first meeting in January 2016 in Coimbra\, and a second meeting in February 2017\, in Braga. \n​The meeting will be bilingual English / Portuguese. Plenary sessions will be held in English. Sessions in other languages may be be authorized by the Organizing Committee.
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/the-rcsl-sdj-lisbon-meeting-2018-law-and-citizenship-beyond-the-states-2/
CATEGORIES:Call for papers,conferences and workshops,Due dates,Opportunities
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180131
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180201
DTSTAMP:20260408T165442
CREATED:20180122T191701Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180122T191701Z
UID:10000806-1517356800-1517443199@pil.law.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:CFP: Religious Marriages in the Mediterranean
DESCRIPTION:This multidisciplinary conference seeks to bring together researchers who have engaged in research on religious marriages in the Mediterranean. Papers may focus on\, but are not limited to\, one or\nmore of the following themes: \n1. Exploring the legal and social interaction between religious and civil marriages in the Mediterranean\, whether contemporary or historical perspective (colonial and postcolonial). \n2. Investigating the non-apparent connections between different religions within and without marriage legislation (Sunni\, Shia\, Catholic\, Orthodox\, Coptic\, Jewish\, Hindu…)\, including papers on\nmixed marriages. \n3. How human/civil rights discourses blend and/or conflict with other forms of theological\, moral and/or customary discourses on religious marriages. \n4. Diverse ways of concluding and/or celebrating religious marriages in the Mediterranean. \n5. Problematization and politicization of religious marriages in the Mediterranean. \nOrganizers:\nIbtisam Sadegh (University of Amsterdam) \nDavid Zammit (University of Malta) \nSusan Hirsch (George Mason University) \nPapers (7\,000-8\,000 words)\, will be considered for publication in a special issue of the international\, peer-reviewed Journal of Mediterranean Studies (ISSN: 1016-3476)\, published by the Mediterranean Institute\, University of Malta and available electronically through Project Muse. \nUpon request\, limited travel and accommodation funds (two nights) may be available for short-listed candidates who cannot apply for funding from their own universities. Please submit your request for funding with your paper proposal. \nDeadline for abstract submission: 31 January 2018\nAbstracts of 200-300 words are to be submitted via e-mail: i.sadegh@uva.nl with ‘abstract’ and your last name in the subject heading. \nMore information: Religious Marriage Conference Blurb
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/cfp-religious-marriages-in-the-mediterranean/
CATEGORIES:Call for papers,conferences and workshops,Due dates,Opportunities
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180131
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180201
DTSTAMP:20260408T165442
CREATED:20171030T154312Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171030T154312Z
UID:10000918-1517356800-1517443199@pil.law.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:American Institute for Maghrib Studies: Annual Grants Program
DESCRIPTION:The American Institute for Maghrib Studies (AIMS) is pleased to announce its Annual Grants Program for the 2018-2019 cycle: \nSubmissions for the AIMS Grants Program for US Citizens are due January 31st\, 2018.  The program offers short and long term grants to U.S. scholars interested in conducting research on North Africa in any Maghrib country\, specifically Algeria\, Mauritania\, Morocco\, or Tunisia. For more information\, please visit: http://aimsnorthafrica.org/long-and-short-term-grants/.
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/american-institute-for-maghrib-studies-annual-grants-program/
CATEGORIES:Due dates,Grants,Opportunities
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180201
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180202
DTSTAMP:20260408T165442
CREATED:20180122T181051Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180122T181051Z
UID:10000803-1517443200-1517529599@pil.law.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Digital Editions\, Digital Corpora and New Possibilities for the Humanities in the Academy and Beyond
DESCRIPTION:The Perseus Digital Library Project at Tufts University is proud to host a 2018 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities \nDigital Editions\, Digital Corpora and New Possibilities for the Humanities in the Academy and Beyond (July 16 – 27\, 2018) will allow participants to spend two weeks exploring a range of advanced new methods for annotating textual sources and to learn how to use these technologies to create state-of-the-art digital editions and multi-layer corpora.
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/digital-editions-digital-corpora-and-new-possibilities-for-the-humanities-in-the-academy-and-beyond/
LOCATION:Tufts University
CATEGORIES:Applications,conferences and workshops,Due dates,Opportunities
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180221T114500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180221T130000
DTSTAMP:20260408T165442
CREATED:20180216T210215Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180216T210215Z
UID:10000809-1519213500-1519218000@pil.law.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Common Roots\, Diverging Branches: Dynamism in Islamic and Jewish Law
DESCRIPTION:The Julis-Rabinowitz Program on Jewish and Israeli Law at the Harvard Law School presents a lunchtime lecture with Professor Gideon Libson (Professor Emeritus\, Hebrew University of Jerusalem): \nGideon Libson is Professor Emeritus of Jewish and Islamic Law and Comparative Jewish and Islamic Law in the Faculty of Law at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He has written extensively on Jewish Law\, Islamic Law and Comparative Jewish-Islamic Law. His book on Jewish and Islamic Law: A Comparative Study of Custom During the Geonic Period was published by Harvard University Press in 2003. \nProf. Gideon Libson’s lecture will explore the core common principles in several fields of law in the Islamic and Jewish legal traditions\, with clear similarities between them. It was only over the years that the two systems diverged\, primarily as a result of Jewish law’s dynamic ability to adapt to the challenges and constraints of changing circumstances by supplementing the initial core with additional normative layers. As a result of the significant disparity that emerged between them\, their initial common basis has become completely invisible. The similarity between the two systems has all but vanished\, while the differences have increased. \nFor more information\, please contact Menachem Butler (mbutler@law.harvard.edu)
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/common-roots-diverging-branches-dynamism-in-islamic-and-jewish-law/
LOCATION:Pound Hall 100\, Harvard Law School
CATEGORIES:lectures and talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180221T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180221T203000
DTSTAMP:20260408T165442
CREATED:20180227T131900Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180227T131900Z
UID:10000811-1519239600-1519245000@pil.law.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Redefining and Retaining Shariʿah Compliance in Islamic Finance
DESCRIPTION:Public Lecture on Islamic Finance
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/redefining-and-retaining-shari%ca%bfah-compliance-in-islamic-finance/
LOCATION:SOAS University of London\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:lectures and talks
GEO:51.5072648;-0.1278328
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180227T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180227T180000
DTSTAMP:20260408T165442
CREATED:20180227T155027Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180227T155027Z
UID:10000966-1519747200-1519754400@pil.law.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:History of the Book :: Arabic Book Culture from Manuscript to Print by Ahmed El Shamsy\, University of Chicago
DESCRIPTION:  \nArabic Book Culture from Manuscript to Print\nRespondent\nElias Muhanna\nBrown University
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/history-of-the-book-arabic-book-culture-from-manuscript-to-print-by-ahmed-el-shamsy-university-of-chicago/
LOCATION:Barker Center\, Room 133
CATEGORIES:lectures and talks
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180227
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180301
DTSTAMP:20260408T165442
CREATED:20180122T193036Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180122T193036Z
UID:10000807-1519754400-1519840799@pil.law.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:CFP: Fifth World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies (WOCMES)
DESCRIPTION:WOCMES Seville 2018 will be held in the capital of Andalusia on 16-22 July 2018\, serving as a meeting point to present\, debate and share a wide range of information on the latest studies concerning the Middle East\, encompassing diverse perspectives\, from conflict analysis and resolution to migrations\, water\, the environment\, culture\, news media and studies on Al-Andalus. \nThe World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies (WOCMES) is the biggest encounter of world experts on disciplines related to this vast region whether contemporary or ancient. The Congress takes place every four years in a different capital. The fifth edition will be organised by the Three Cultures of the Mediterranean Foundation in collaboration with the University of Seville whose headquarters will serve as the main venue for the event. \nIn the wake of the four previous congresses – Mainz 2002 (Germany)\, Amman 2006 (Jordan)\, Barcelona 2010 (Spain) and Ankara 2014 (Turkey)\, WOCMES Seville 2018 will focus on the relationship between the three cultures and\, given that it is the Foundation’s raison d’être\, the Andalusí legacy and the roots of the city that will host this major international gathering. \nThe Three Cultures of the Mediterranean Foundation calls for submissions for the fifth edition of the World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies (WOCMES) which will be held in Seville\, Spain\, from July 16th to the 22nd\, 2018. \nAll submissions of proposals must be made through the Wocmes Seville 2018 website at http://wocmes2018seville.org/ \nThe system will close at midnight (CET) on February 28th\, 2018. \nThemes: Al-Andalus; Ancient Middle East; Christian Studies; Conflict Analysis and Resolution; Contemporary Middle East; Cultural Studies; Economics; Gender Studies; International Relations and International Law; Islamic Studies; Jewish Studies; Linguistic and Literature; Media Studies; Medieval Studies; Mediterranean Studies; Migration Studies; Nationality / Identities and Ethnicity; Normative Phenomena and Law; North Africa; Politics; Sepharad and Sephardic Diaspora; Scientific Culture; Translation studies; Urban and Regional Studies; Water\, Agriculture and the Environment. \nMajor disciplines: Anthropology; Arabic and Islamic Studies; Archaeology; Architecture; Art; Communication / Information; Demography; Economics; Economic and Social Development; Education; Egyptology; Environmental Studies; Ethnology; Gender Studies; Geography; Hebrew and Jewish Studies; History; International Relations; Languages and Literature; Law; Library Studies; Linguistics; Museum Sciences; Musicology; Philology; Philosophy; Political Sciences; Sociology; Theology; Urban Planning.
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/cfp-fifth-world-congress-for-middle-eastern-studies-wocmes/
LOCATION:Seville\, Spain
CATEGORIES:Call for papers,conferences and workshops,Due dates,Opportunities
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180228
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180301
DTSTAMP:20260408T165442
CREATED:20180122T175515Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180122T175515Z
UID:10000961-1519776000-1519862399@pil.law.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Uses of the Past in Islamic Legal Thought and Practice: Summer School 8th -14th July 2018\, University of Exeter\, UK
DESCRIPTION:Call for Applications \nThe Understanding Shari`a Project is organising an all-expenses paid summer school for the 7-14th July on the project theme of ‘uses of the past’ in Islamic Law\, to be hosted by the University of Exeter.  The deadline for applications is February 28th.  Anyone in the final 18 months of their PhD\, or within 18 months of the completion of their degree\, is most welcome to apply.  Participant expenses will be covered from the project budget (including food\, board and flights as necessary). For more information please click here.
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/uses-of-the-past-in-islamic-legal-thought-and-practice-summer-school-8th-14th-july-2018-university-of-exeter-uk/
LOCATION:University of Exeter
CATEGORIES:Applications,conferences and workshops,Due dates,Opportunities
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180301
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180302
DTSTAMP:20260408T165442
CREATED:20180227T133043Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180227T133043Z
UID:10000812-1519862400-1519948799@pil.law.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:CFP:: 3rd Annual Legal Studies Graduate Conference: Law\, Language and the Archive
DESCRIPTION:Brown Legal Studies 2018 CFP \nLanguage is a conduit of information\, a reflection of the social and political constructions of bygone eras\, as well as our present. It can be deployed in the service of beauty\, expression\, liberation\, punishment\, control\, and /or shame. Moreover\, language\, an essential tool of the law\, is ordered and organized according to an often contradictory sedimentation of norms\, assumptions\, and customs. As legal scholars\, we employ a number of methodologies to confront and interpret the messy entanglements of language\, law\, and lived experience. The legal archive\, like law and language\, “straddles the material and the ideational\,” sometimes tracking these myriad modes of legal speech\, sometimes itself symbolically producing ‘the law’ as a heavily guarded and precise linguistic apparatus\, filled with loopholes and traps. \nThe Brown Legal Studies initiative invites paper submissions on the subject of “Law\, Language\, and the Archive” for its third annual graduate student conference. At a moment when important political and legal institutions in the United States are challenged from within and without\, our conference will consider the interaction of language and the law\, contemporarily and in broader historical and comparatist contexts\, and the ways we\, as scholars\, interact and interpret the language of the law in the archival sources we use.
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/cfp-3rd-annual-legal-studies-graduate-conference-law-language-and-the-archive/
LOCATION:Brown University\, Providence\, RI
CATEGORIES:Call for papers,Opportunities
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