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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180409
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SUMMARY:British Association for Islamic Studies Conference 2018
DESCRIPTION:The Law\, Learning and Authority in Imami Shiite Islam (LAWALISI) project will host a panel at the British Association for Islamic Studies (www.BRAIS.ac.uk)\, to be held at the University of Exeter\, 9th-11th April 2018 – a programme is available here.  The project team\, along with many working in Shii Studies\, will attend and present at the conference.
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/british-association-for-islamic-studies-conference-2018/
CATEGORIES:conferences and workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180409T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180409T130000
DTSTAMP:20180301T175427Z
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SUMMARY:Islamic Constitutionalism: Not Secular. Not Theocratic. Not Impossible.
DESCRIPTION:Asifa Quraishi-Landes will explain her current project\, proposing a structure for Islamic constitutionalism that is inspired by Islamic jurisprudence and Muslim history\, yet designed for contemporary realities. This structure is conceptually different from the typical “Islamic state” imagined by modern political Islam movements\, as it is built upon the pre-colonial separation of Muslim lawmaking power: siyasa\, made by rulers\, and fiqh\, articulated by religious legal scholars. She will argue that popular understandings of sharia fail to see the constitutional importance of these two legal realms\, largely because global discourses about Islamic government are dominated by Eurocentric concepts of law (especially religious law). Quraishi-Landes will then present a proposal for Islamic constitutionalism that will demonstrate that—if we step outside the European nation-state paradigm to see sharīʿa as an Islamic rule of law made up of both fiqhand siyasa—an Islamic constitutionalism that is not secular and not theocratic is not impossible. \nQuraishi-Landes is a Professor of Law at the University of Wisconsin Law School\, where she teaches courses in US Constitutional Law and Islamic law. Her research focuses on comparative constitutional law\, with a current focus on modern Islamic constitutional theory. \nCo-sponsored by the Muslim Law Students Association and the Middle Eastern Law Students Association (MELSA) at Harvard Law School.
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/islamic-constitutionalism-not-secular-not-theocratic-not-impossible/
LOCATION:Wasserstein B010\, Harvard Law School
CATEGORIES:lectures and talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180410T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180410T130000
DTSTAMP:20180301T210623Z
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SUMMARY:ILSP: SHARIAsource Lunch Talk :: Comparing Waqf and Western Landed Trusts
DESCRIPTION:Ebrahim Afsah\, Visiting Fellow\, ILSP: SHARIAsource\, Harvard Law School\, will discuss his current research on a structured comparison between waqf and the Western institution of landed trust and the implications for Islamic administrative and public law. \nMediterranean lunch will be served.
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/ilsp-shariasource-lunch-talk-comparing-waqf-and-western-landed-trusts/
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:20180411T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180411T200000
DTSTAMP:20180405T165620Z
CREATED:20180405T165620Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180405T165620Z
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SUMMARY:Timbuktu and Beyond: The Past\, Present\, and Future of West African Manuscript--Round Table
DESCRIPTION:Please join us at New York University’s Tamiment Library (10th floor\, Elmer Holmes Bobst Library\, 70 Washington Sq. South) on Wednesday\, April 11\, 6:30-8:00PM (doors open at 6pm) for a round table on issues relating to early West African manuscripts. \nA fundamental source for the history of West Africa lies in rich archival collections\, most famously the manuscript libraries of Timbuktu. Documents from the Mali and Songhai Empires and the centuries before European colonial rule offer a vital window into the region’s complex ties to the wider Muslim world\, and to cultures and polities in Africa\, Europe\, and the Middle East. \nOusmane Kane (Harvard) and Michael Gomez (NYU) will discuss their recent work reassessing the religious and political history of West Africa\, research which relied heavily on the documentary evidence to be found in such collections. Alexandra Huddleston is a photojournalist who spent part of her childhood in Mali\, returning there in 2007 to document the traditional custodianship of manuscript collections in Timbuktu\, before they were dramatically spirited out of the city for protection from advancing insurgents in 2013. \nThe participants will discuss their experiences with West African documents\, as well as the challenges of consulting and protecting these renowned archives of human history. Geared toward a general audience\, the event welcomes those interested in African\, Islamic\, and medieval history\, as well as librarians and archivists concerned about the preservation of threatened cultural heritage collections. Copies of the speakers’ publications will be available for purchase. \nEvent is open to the public. RSVP not required but would be appreciated; register here: \nhttps://events.nyu.edu/#!view/event/event_id/202442 \n(Co-sponsored by New York University’s Elmer Holmes Bobst Library\, the departments of Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies\, History\, and Africana Studies\, and the Medieval & Renaissance Center\, with support from Long Island University’s Palmer School of Library and Information Science.)
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/timbuktu-and-beyond-the-past-present-and-future-of-west-african-manuscript-round-table/
LOCATION:New York University’s Tamiment Library\, 70 Washington Sq. South
CATEGORIES:conferences and workshops,lectures and talks
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180415
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180416
DTSTAMP:20180504T203244Z
CREATED:20180504T203244Z
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SUMMARY:MA: Intellectual Encounters of the Islamicate World
DESCRIPTION:The aim of the MA Intellectual Encounters of the Islamicate World is to provide international graduate students with a thorough understanding of the deep and diverse links between the Muslim\, Jewish and Christian intellectual contributions during the medieval period. The program is characterised by a strongly research-driven\, interdisciplinary and interreligious approach with an emphasis on primary texts in original language (Arabic). Students will be trained and mentored by internationally renowned guest lecturers who are counted among the leading experts in their respective fields of research. \nThe primarily web-based MA program also includes three face-to-face sessions in Cordoba (prov.) and Berlin per academic year during which the students and teachers will actually come together for discussion\, teaching and examination. Freie Universität Berlin offers this one-year\, full-time MA program of 60 ECTS to an expected number of 20 students\, many of whom are from the region of the Middle East. The language of instruction is English. \nApplications are now open! The application period for the academic year 2018/19 is from 15 April until 31 May 2018. \nPlease also note that there will be two program presentation sessions on May 2nd and May 7th (16.30 Jerusalem time). Our team will briefly present the MA and will be available afterwards to answer any questions you might have.\nMore information here: bit.ly/IEIWpresentation \nFor more information: www.ihiw.de/master\nFor direct enquiries: ieiw@geschkult.fu-berlin.de
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/ma-intellectual-encounters-of-the-islamicate-world/
CATEGORIES:Applications,Opportunities,Programs
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180419
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180421
DTSTAMP:20171114T181811Z
CREATED:20171114T181811Z
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SUMMARY:3rd USPPIP Team Meeting and Workshop: Maslaha\, Siyasa and Good Governance: Shari'a and Society
DESCRIPTION:A challenge for the Islamic Shari’a is that it should span from a religious ideal to a social and political reality. Islamic thinkers have long discussed whether this should primarily take the form of a fixed set of rules to be applied “because God has said so”\, or whether these rules reflect a divine intention (Ar. maqasid) which humans can grasp\, the intention of welfare for mankind (maslaha). If the latter\, should Muslims seek the rules and methods that best furthers these intentions in contemporary society? This has been a central issue for reform and modifications of Islamic practices for centuries\, as well as today. \nLinked to this discussion is the issue of authority. The Shari’a gives the state (the “ruler”) the authority to implement rules and make decisions beyond the literal rules of the Shari’a when they follow its intentions\, this is called siyasa shar’iya\, “Shari’a politics”. How the limits for the state’s freedom of action within Shari’a thinking goes\, depends on the relationship between the ruler and the religious authorities at any time. \nHow are these topics discussed today? This workshop will focus on the use of concepts such as maslaha and siyasa in Islamic discussion of reform and orthopraxy. To what degree do Islamic NGOs appeal to maslala in their activities? To what degree do Muslim thinkers today use the terms of siyasa  and maslaha in their discussions of state activities and laws in Muslim\, mixed and non-Muslim states? A central concept for many state-oriented NGOs is “good governance”. This term\, which may be used for accountability of the ruler\, or more widely for works promoting democratic practices\, is in many ways akin to “promotion of public welfare”\, i.e. maslaha. \nThe object of this workshop is to see the relationship between these modern ideas of reform and the classical fiqh debates on the same topics. Do modern Islamic thinkers refer to the classical debates at all; and if so\, are the fiqh concepts simply used as rhetoric\, putting a classical name to a modernist concept\, or are contemporary debates informed about the classical fiqh argument? How is the fiqh debates of the past used in the present? \nKeynotes speakers will be: \nFelicitas Opwis\, Georgtown University \nMohammad Fadel\, University of Toronto \nThe workshop will also include participants from civil society organizations.
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/3rd-usppip-team-meeting-and-workshop-maslaha-siyasa-and-good-governance-sharia-and-society/
LOCATION:University of Bergen\, Norway
CATEGORIES:conferences and workshops
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180419
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180421
DTSTAMP:20171030T161124Z
CREATED:20171030T161124Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171030T161124Z
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SUMMARY:Maslaha\, Siyasa and Good Governance: Shari’a and Society Workshop
DESCRIPTION:On the 19th – 20th April 2018\, the Centre for Middle Eastern Studies\, University of Bergen will host the workshop Maslaha\, Siyasa and Good Governance: Shari’a and Society. We are pleased to announce the Call for Paper proposals for this two-day event organised as part of the Humanities in the European Research Area ( HERA) “Uses of the Past” joint research programme. \nA challenge for the Islamic Shari’a is that it should span from a religious ideal to a social and political reality. Islamic thinkers have long discussed whether this should primarily take the form of a fixed set of rules to be applied “because God has said so”\, or whether these rules reflect a divine intention (Ar. maqasid) which humans can grasp\, the intention of welfare for mankind (maslaha). If the latter\, should Muslims seek the rules and methods that best furthers these intentions in contemporary society? This has been a central issue for reform and modifications of Islamic practices for centuries\, as well as today. \nLinked to this discussion is the issue of authority. The Shari’a gives the state (the “ruler”) the authority to implement rules and make decisions beyond the literal rules of the Shari’a when they follow its intentions\, this is called siyasa shar’iya\, “Shari’a politics”. How the limits for the state’s freedom of action within Shari’a thinking goes\, depends on the relationship between the ruler and the religious authorities at any time. \nHow are these topics discussed today? This workshop will focus on the use of concepts such as maslaha and siyasa in Islamic discussion of reform and orthopraxy. To what degree do Islamic NGOs appeal to maslala in their activities? To what degree do Muslim thinkers today use the terms of siyasa  and maslaha in their discussions of state activities and laws in Muslim\, mixed and non-Muslim states? A central concept for many state-oriented NGOs is “good governance”. This term\, which may be used for accountability of the ruler\, or more widely for works promoting democratic practices\, is in many ways akin to “promotion of public welfare”\, i.e. maslaha. \nThe object of this workshop is to see the relationship between these modern ideas of reform and the classical fiqh debates on the same topics. Do modern Islamic thinkers refer to the classical debates at all; and if so\, are the fiqh concepts simply used as rhetoric\, putting a classical name to a modernist concept\, or are contemporary debates informed about the classical fiqh argument? How is the fiqh debates of the past used in the present? \nKeynotes speakers will be: \nFelicitas Opwis\, Georgtown University \nMohammad Fadel\, University of Toronto
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/maslaha-siyasa-and-good-governance-sharia-and-society-workshop/
LOCATION:University of Bergen\, Norway
CATEGORIES:conferences and workshops
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180424T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180424T130000
DTSTAMP:20180315T214417Z
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SUMMARY:ILSP Lunch Talk :: A Southeast Asian Model of Sharīʿa Law? The Evolution and Possibility in Southeast Asian countries
DESCRIPTION:Mansurah Izzul Mohamed\, Visiting Fellow\, ILSP: SHARIAsource\, Harvard Law School will discuss her current research on how some Southeast Asian countries introduce and/or implement sharīʿa law practices. She will assess the history of the region and whether this model will hold up in the face of political\, economic and human rights pressure from the wider international community. \nMansurah Izzul Mohamed holds a Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy (MALD) from the Fletcher School\, Tufts University (2017) and a Master of Arts in Political Studies from Auckland University (2011)\, respectively and a Single Honors Bachelor Degree in International Relations from Keele University (2006). She has been awarded a Brunei Government In-Service Training (LDP) Scholarship to undergo graduate level studies. Before commencing her postgraduate studies\, Mohamed worked in Brunei Darussalam as a Research Officer and then Assistant Director at the Department of International Organizations (DIO)\, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MOFAT).
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/ilsp-lunch-talk-a-southeast-asian-model-of-sharia-law-a-southeast-asian-model-of-sharia-law-the-evolution-and-possibility-in-southeast-asian-countries/
CATEGORIES:SHARIAsource events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180426T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180426T130000
DTSTAMP:20180301T210918Z
CREATED:20180301T210918Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180301T210918Z
UID:10000814-1524744000-1524747600@pil.law.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:ILSP: SHARIAsource Lunch Talk :: Early Islamic Political Theory Between Legal Discourse and Political Anthropology
DESCRIPTION:Early Islamic political theory as it enjoyed currency among the scholarly classes alternated between two possibilities: legal functionalism and political anthropology.  Critical to our understanding of these intellectual trends and their conceptual contours is an understanding of a “theoretical turn” in early Islamic thought which created the preconditions for a theory of power\, and the domain of its proper application between the political and the religious.  Codified forms of early Islamic political theory\, as well as those which went out of favor in subsequent generations have arguably less to do with a “tradition” of caliphal sovereignty than the nature of the intellectual resources available\, and in fact proceeded from the presumption of an absence of religiously normative state structures.  This presentation will attempt a non-teleological archaeology of aforementioned political theories within an diachronic discursive analysis from the 8th to the 11th centuries of the common era. \nRodrigo Adem is an ILSP: SHARIAsource Visiting Fellow and Dumbarton Oaks College Fellow in Medieval Mediterranean History at Harvard’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies. He studies pre-modern Muslim thought as an intellectual and social historian.  He is particularly interested in how scholarly networks mediated social and epistemic authority within the urban and political development of the Near East and Mediterranean over the 8th to 14th century.  He hopes to further current understanding of how paradigmatic scholarly traditions of law\, theology\, historiography\, philosophy\, mysticism\, and political thought came to be codified during this period\, and persist in key facets of Muslim thought to the present day.
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/ilsp-shariasource-lunch-talk/
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:20180501T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180501T130000
DTSTAMP:20180327T232440Z
CREATED:20180327T232440Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180327T232440Z
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SUMMARY:ILSP Lunch Talk :: A Gentleman and a Scholar: Profile of an Ottoman Judge in the Late Sixteenth Century
DESCRIPTION:Amir Toft’s talk profiles the education and career of a judge who served for one year around 1580 as judge in the court of Üsküdar\, one of the districts of Istanbul. His name and titles—Mevlana Ibrahim Çelebi Efendi el-Galatavi—are known to us only through their appearance in the court register for that year. Apart from that we know next to nothing directly about him. However\, thanks to the decades of work by Ottomanists\, we are able with reasonable certainty to reconstruct the path that he took to arrive at the Üsküdar court\, a relatively high position that only a few people in the Ottoman legal profession were qualified to reach. \nThe purpose of this talk\, as well as the project on which it draws\, is to provide more narrative depth to the historiography of early modern Ottoman law. The great bulk of Ottoman legal studies for that period pays heavy attention to bureaucratic administration and its most prominent figures. That emphasis\, while invaluable Toft’s own research\, has nevertheless come at the expense of two things: one is how Ottoman jurists received and adapted Islamic jurisprudence\, and the other is anything more than a thin description of the characters that drove the Ottoman legal system. This talk focuses in on the latter. Because most judges and other legal officials did not leave behind a literary output\, their names only show up in archival records and they look like faceless and wooden functionaries. This talk breathes a bit of life into one of these functionaries\, who would otherwise remain totally forgotten. \nAmir Toft is a Ph.D. candidate in Islamic Thought in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. His primary scholarly interests are in Islamic jurisprudence and Ottoman history\, with a view to understanding how institutions of law and government worked on the ground in premodern Islamic societies. His dissertation\, through the lens of homicide in late sixteenth-century Istanbul\, studies the Ottoman reception and application of the Hanafi school of jurisprudence. During the 2017–18 academic year he has been a research fellow in the Abdallah S. Kamel Center for the Study of Islamic Law and Civilization at Yale Law School.
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/ilsp-lunch-talk-a-gentleman-and-a-scholar-profile-of-an-ottoman-judge-in-the-late-sixteenth-century/
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:20180503T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180503T130000
DTSTAMP:20180315T224659Z
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LAST-MODIFIED:20180315T224659Z
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SUMMARY:ILSP: SHARIAsource Lunch Talk :: Apocalypticism and the Mahdi in Early Islam
DESCRIPTION:Mohammad Sagha\, SHARIAsource Editor and Iran Project Coordinator at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs\, will discuss Ibn al-Munādī’s Kitāb al-Malāḥim and sectarian identity in the ḥadīth corpus of Shīʿī and Sunnī law schools. The role and identity of the Mahdī in early Islamic thought is an important concept shared almost universally between Muslim schools of thought. However\, the process of ḥadīth crystallization between mainstream Sunnī and Shī’ī law schools has privileged certain narratives and orthodox interpretations of who the Mahdī is and what he represents. By highlighting a relatively newly published manuscript written in the 4th/10th century by the author Ibn al-Munādī with significant emphasis on eschatology and the Mahdī\, this presentation will contextualize the wider spectrum of early Islamic thought on the Mahdī and provide analysis on how the scholastic process of ḥadīth collection and the political context of revolution under the Abbasids has impacted scholarly understanding on the Mahdī throughout time. \nMohammad Sagha is the Iran Project Coordinator at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. He is concurrently undertaking his PhD studies in Islamic History and Civilization at the University of Chicago\, where he is also Co-Director of the Shi’i Studies Group and facilitates the university’s annual Shi’i Studies Symposium. He is additionally an editor for SHARIAsource at the Islamic Legal Studies Program at Harvard Law School. Sagha’s research focuses on the origins of Muslim sectarian identity and political institutions\, early Islamic transregional religious movements and military organization\, and the historical development of Islamic political thought. In particular\, he studies early Shi’i underground social networks and the foundation of Shi’i dynastic power under the Buyids and their contemporaries.
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/ilsp-lunch-talk-apocalypticism-and-the-mahdi-in-early-islam/
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:20180518T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180519T113000
DTSTAMP:20180518T190411Z
CREATED:20180518T190411Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180518T190411Z
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SUMMARY:Berbers and Moors: Authority Beyond State and Tribe in the Early Medieval Maghreb
DESCRIPTION:Berbers and Moors: Authority Beyond State and Tribe in the Early Medieval Maghreb \n18th-19th May 2018\, UCL\, London \nA workshop hosted by the University of Leicester and UCL and sponsored by the Society for Libyan Studies \nOrganisers: Corisande Fenwick (UCL) and Andy Merrills (University of Leicester) \n\nFriday\, Room 612 (6th floor)\, UCL Institute of Archaeology\, 31-34 Gordon Square\, London WC1H 0PY \n  \n2:00pm Welcome and Introduction \nCorisande Fenwick (UCL) and Andy Merrills (University of Leicester) \n2:30pm Mapping the pre-desert of Algeria: a satellite remote sensing to settlement  patterns in the mid-first millennium AD \nMartin Sterry (University of Durham)     \n\n3.30-4pm Tea \n\n4-6pm: The Men who Would be King: The Importance of Titulature in Fifth- and Sixth-Century North Africa \nAndy Merrills (University of Leicester) \nThe struggle for Africa: Local power brokers \nRoland Steinacher (Universität Tübingen) \n\n6pm Drink Reception in Staff Common Room followed by dinner at a local restaurant for speakers \n\nSaturday\, IAS Common Ground\, UCL Main Building\, Gower Street\, London \n  \n10-12pm: Identifying the Imamate: State Building and Society in the Age of the Rustamids \nCyrille Aillet (Université Lumière Lyon 2) \nBerbers and Borderlands: Rulership\, Authority and City-building in Islamic Morocco \nCorisande Fenwick (UCL) \n\n12.00- 1:30 Lunch \n  \n1:30-3.30pm \nLes Banû Yahrâsan\, figures politiques et sacrées de l’ibadisme à Djerba \nVirginie Prevost (Université Libre de Bruxelles) \nFact\, Fiction and Polemic in the Study of the Almoravid and Almohad empires \nAmira Bennison (University of Cambridge) \n\n3:30 – 4 Coffee Break \n\n4-4:50   The role of climatic modulations in the economic\, social and political reorganization of Maghreb al-Asqa at the time of the emergence of the Islamic emirates (8th-9th centuries). \nChloe Capel (UMR 8167 Orient et Méditerranée) \n4:50-.    Authority Beyond the State: A Response. \nAndrew Marsham (University of Cambridge) \n\n5:20-6pm. Final Discussion \n6pm Drink Reception followed by dinner at a local restaurant for speakers
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/berbers-and-moors-authority-beyond-state-and-tribe-in-the-early-medieval-maghreb/
CATEGORIES:conferences and workshops,lectures and talks
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180524T010000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180525T100000
DTSTAMP:20180521T161019Z
CREATED:20180521T161019Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180521T161019Z
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SUMMARY:Workshop: Historical and Comparative Macrosociology of Middle Eastern Legal Systems
DESCRIPTION:Location: Instituto Internacional de Sociología Jurídica de Oñati (Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law) \nCoordinators: Said Arjomand (Stony Brook Institute for Global Studies)\, Nathan J. Brown (Institute of Middle East Studies) \n\nProgramme:\nFinal programme.pdf \n\n\n\nDescription of the meeting\n\nUnderstanding the intellectual\, sociological\, and political aspects of law in the Middle East has been hampered by an unfortunate and outmoded disciplinary divide. Social scientists—chiefly in the fields of political science\, sociology\, and some legal studies—have focused much of their attention on modern structures\, probing how laws are written\, courts are structured and adjudicate\, citizens litigate\, and regimes deploy law as an instrument. Scholars from these disciplines often encounter intellectual approaches\, doctrines\, and ideas that are deeply rooted historically\, many (but not all) of a religious provenance\, with a strong influence of the scholarship on Islamic law. These disciplines stress generalization at the expense of diversity and causal inference at the expense of path dependency. But they are often less well equipped to go beyond a fairly superficial understanding of history and doctrine\, as even those scholars who are friendly to such subjects are entirely reliant on secondary sources. \nAt the same time\, those who approach law from an area studies viewpoint or from various disciplines more anchored in the humanities and more interpretive social sciences (such as religious studies\, history\, and anthropology) excel with the study of texts\, intellectual history\, legal thought\, and the premodern period. But the questions they ask tend to be resistant to generalization and comparative analysis; and when they do make forays into the modern period (as anthropology does)\, it is generally to develop rich but highly contextualized understanding. \nOur aim in this workshop is to bring together a group of scholars who have made individual forays toward bridging this gap in a more comprehensive and collaborate effort aiming at understanding the politics and sociology of law in the modern Middle East. In designing this workshop\, we are reaching out to a range of scholars—fairly senior figures\, middle-generation academics\, and some at the beginning of their careers. We have also worked to cover the entire region and to draw on academics who have been trained in a variety of locations (North America\, Europe\, and the Middle East). \nWe have selected participants not simply for the quality and focus of their individual research but also for their demonstrated interest and ability at working across disciplinary\, historical\, and geographical divides. We intend to draw heavily on a workshop format to ensure cross-fertilization of ideas and approaches and produce a coherent set of essays on the history\, politics and sociology of law in the Middle East\, while collaboratively elaborating a comparative analytical framework for doing so. This comparative framework for the analysis of Middle Eastern legal systems will\, eo ipso\, also be more broadly comparative in that it will engage with theoretical concepts whose empirical grounding is in the historical experience of Western political and legal evolution. \nTo what extent do classical understandings of law inform current practice? Is the Islamic legal heritage the only approach with pre-modern roots that has influence today? How has the nature of law\, legal authority\, and statecraft evolved?  Some implicit answers to these fundamental questions will be built into the design and comparative framework of the workshop. We shall consider axiomatic the fundamental historical fact of ethico-legal pluralism in the Islamicate civilization. Macrosociologically\, the notion of “Islamic law” is highly problematic. There is of course the highly elaborate Islamic jurisprudence (fiqh) whose evolution is fairly well understood\, as is its primary consequence of dividing the Muslim world into four major Sunni and major sectarian Shi`ite and Kharijite Rites or Schools of Law. What is impossible to maintain historically is the system of Islamic jurisprudence currently called the “Shari`a law” was ever tantamount to the public or constitutional law of any Muslim kingdom or empire. Historically\, the legal systems of Muslim kingdoms and empires were thoroughly pluralistic. Once again\, it is only the religious aspect of this legal pluralism\, as exemplified by the Ottoman millet system\, which has received any attention in the Middle Eastern legal scholarship. The historically decisive pluralism of the legal order\, resting on the Persianate tradition of political ethic and statecraft as well as Turko-Mongolian legal tradition of public dynastic law have never been systematically integrated with Islamic jurisprudence to produce a historically adequate and convincing picture of Perso-Turkic Islamicate legal systems of pre-modern Middle East. It is the goal of our workshop to do so as a step toward a macrosociology of law in the Middle East. \n\n\n\nFor more information:\n\nMalen Gordoa Mendizabal \n\nIISJ (Meetings)\nAvenida de la Universidad\, 8\nApartado 28\n20560 Oñati (Gipuzkoa) – Spain\nT: +34 943 71… Ver teléfono\nF: +34 943 78… Ver fax\nE: malen@iisj.es\nTwitter: @MalenIISJ
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/workshop-historical-and-comparative-macrosociology-of-middle-eastern-legal-systems/
CATEGORIES:conferences and workshops
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180531
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180601
DTSTAMP:20180504T202919Z
CREATED:20180504T202919Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180504T202919Z
UID:10000822-1527724800-1527811199@pil.law.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:CFP: Criminalising Violent Pasts: Multiple Roots and Forgotten Pathways 1950s-2010s
DESCRIPTION:Over the last half century\, discourses and practices connected to the idea that violent or dictatorial pasts should be marked as criminal have proliferated. A variety of actors – from victims groups to social movements\, to expert groups such as lawyers\, museums specialists and even economists – have contributed to the emergence and circulation of the notion that political violence could only be overcome through its criminalization in courts\, lustration procedures\, history writing\, activism or memorial sites. Produced across different fields of action and expertise\, this assumption has become dominant in the political and judicial sphere at a global level and has permeated many political cultures and everyday life practices.  Even where decriminalisation (amnesties\, pardons\, closure of archives) prevailed\, debates worked within the set of assumptions about the past established through this globally expanding paradigm. \nDespite its dominance\, we still lack a truly international history of its roots. This is in part because modern day practices of criminalisation often play down their own historicity. Coming of age at the so-called ‘end of history’\, their promoters came to see their application as a natural end point in the achievement of human rights\, democracy or good governance.  When histories are offered\, they too often provide a rather linear narrative that links these developments to – mainly Western – political processes established to address the legacies of Nazism after World War Two. Such accounts have also commonly resisted incorporation into broader frameworks supplied\, for example\, by histories of globalization\, neoliberalism or postcolonialism.  Only recently have a few authors sought to make sense of the emergence of the modern criminalisation paradigm in new ways\, connecting it\, for example\, to the rise of the homo economicus and a concomitant individualistic approach to human rights. \nThis conference seeks to explore the history of the (often forgotten) pathways and contested visions through which the criminalization paradigm developed. This conference welcomes contributions that explore the emergence of multiple\, potentially competitive visions of criminal pasts. Taking as its starting point the moment of an acceleration of decolonisation\, globalisation and de-Stalinisation in the 1950s\, we encourage papers that explore the variety of actors\, activisms and political projects that lay behind the global expansion of such ideas. Human rights organisations\, international legal associations\, post-colonial and Communist states\, all variously developed the idea of overcoming criminal pasts as they sought\, to legitimate new political projects\, reconceptualise the relationship between the individual and the state\, or seek collective or socio-economic justice for past wrongs. We welcome papers that\, for example\, address the complexity and interplay of these ideas in different arenas and seek to connect these phenomena to wider literatures. We are also wary of easy teleologies\, and are as interested in the histories of the marginalization of some visions\, as in the growing dominance of others. \nPapers might address the following topics: \nHistoricisation. How did processes of criminalisation/decriminalisation of fascism\, authoritarianism\, colonialism\, communism\, and other violent historical episodes evolve over time? What were their political/ideological roots and consequences\, and how did they influence each other? Which particular paradigms of criminalisation were internationalised or globalised from the 1950s? What turning points can we identify in the shift of these paradigms at international and regional levels (e.g. decolonisation in the 1960s\, the end of Cold War)? \nRethinking Paradigms. Are there new historical frameworks into which the history of criminalising violent pasts could be written? The history of neoliberalism? Or postcolonialism? Should it bring together traditions of scholarship\, which have often remained separate? (e.g. postcolonialism and communism; histories of the ‘semi-periphery’ with those from ‘the West’). \nRethinking ‘Third Wave Criminalisation’ (1980s-). How might these multiple histories help us understand the values and practices of ‘third wave criminalisation’ in new ways?  Which groups and alliances helped produce this? Were alternative visions of historical culpability marginalised\, or did they survive? Does such a historicisation enable us more fully to appreciate the variety of visions and practices that constitute this recent criminalisation paradigm? \nRethinking Actors. How did states\, social movements\, peace keepers\, or experts produce ideas about what should be criminalised and in which ways? How did actors generally unrecognised – such as socialist and other authoritarian states\, or professional groups such as economists –produce and globalise new paradigms? Do we over-privilege the role of western actors in this account? How do relevant actors change over time? (e.g. from states to non-state actors including private individuals and companies)? \nRethinking Chronologies. How did the meanings\, relevance and objects of criminalisation shift over time? How were specific crimes selected as subject to criminalisation at particular moments\, which were sidelined\, and why? How are the processes of criminalisation linked to processes of politicization or de-politicisation of past conflicts and violence? Was there a move from collective/ systemic criminalisation to one based around the idea of individual crime and responsibility? \nAbstracts of 300-500 words\, together with an accompanying short CV should be submitted to criminalisingviolentpasts@gmail.com  by 31 May 2018. The selected participants will be notified by the end of June 2018. Financial support for travel and accommodation is available\, but we ask that contributors also explore funding opportunities at their home institutions. \nThis conference is supported by the AHRC “Care for the Future” (UK) and Labex “Les Passés dans Le Présent” (FR) joint funded project The Criminalization of Dictatorial Pasts in Europe and Latin America in Global Perspective. \nhttps://criminalizationofdictatorialpasts.wordpress.com/ \n 
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/cfp-criminalising-violent-pasts-multiple-roots-and-forgotten-pathways-1950s-2010s/
CATEGORIES:Applications,Call for papers,conferences and workshops
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180606
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180610
DTSTAMP:20171012T214311Z
CREATED:20171012T214311Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171012T214311Z
UID:10000904-1528243200-1528588799@pil.law.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:The IX Islamic Legal Studies Conference\, convened by the International Society for Islamic Legal Studies (ISILS)
DESCRIPTION:The conference will be divided into two parts. In the first\, which will take place in Helsinki on June 6\, a keynote address and an invited panel of five speakers will present on “Islamic Law and the Relationship between Ruler and Ruled.” The keynote will be given by Frank Vogel (Harvard Law School)\, who will explore Sharia doctrine regarding legal status of the governed. It will be followed by a panel made up of Lena Salaymeh (Tel Aviv University)\, Christian Müller (CNRS\, Paris)\, Rob Gleave (University of Exeter)\, Evgenia Kermeli (Haceteppe University\, Ankara)\, and Mulki al-Sharmani (University of Helsinki)\, who will each present case studies from different periods evidencing the shaping and reconstituting of subjecthood in legal practice. \nThe second part\, which will take place in Tampere over two-and-a-half days\, will consist of twenty diverse presentations divided among five panels.
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/the-ix-islamic-legal-studies-conference-convened-by-the-international-society-for-islamic-legal-studies-isils/
LOCATION:Universities of Helsinki and Tampere\, Finland\, Finland
CATEGORIES:conferences and workshops
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180607
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180611
DTSTAMP:20180301T174534Z
CREATED:20180301T174534Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180301T174534Z
UID:10000970-1528329600-1528675199@pil.law.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Annual Meeting on Law and Society: Toronto 2018
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.
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/annual-meeting-on-law-and-society-toronto-2018/
LOCATION:Sheraton Centre\, Toronto\, Canada
CATEGORIES:conferences and workshops
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180624
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180627
DTSTAMP:20180504T202454Z
CREATED:20180504T202454Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180504T202454Z
UID:10000821-1529863200-1530035999@pil.law.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:University of Cape Town Course :: Muslim Marriage Contracts
DESCRIPTION:This two-day course will unpack the legal implications of the Muslim marriage contract by considering: \n\nA brief historical context relating to the non-recognition of Muslim marriages in South Africa\nA synopsis of the legal implications of the non-recognition of Muslim marriages in South Africa\nAn analysis of South African case law that recognises the Muslim marriage as a contract and its legal implications\nThe significance of imams being registered as marriage officers under the Marriage Act 25 of 1961\nThe way in which Muslim marriage contracts can be drafted as ante-nuptial contracts in a way that is consistent with Islamic law and South African civil law.\n\nThe course will include a component that will provide attendees an opportunity to practice drafting a Muslim marriage contract. \nMuslim marriage Contracts UCT 2018 Course Full Details
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/university-of-cape-town-course-muslim-marriage-contracts/
LOCATION:University of Cape Town
CATEGORIES:conferences and workshops,courses
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180626
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180628
DTSTAMP:20180626T212748Z
CREATED:20180626T212748Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180626T212748Z
UID:10000986-1530036000-1530122399@pil.law.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Double Talk “Female Judges – Experiences\, Successes and Challenges in Palestine and Germany”
DESCRIPTION:This lecture will combine the talks of two experts on law and gender: Judge Somoud Al-Damiri (Palestine) and Prof. Maria Wersig (Germany) Since 2009\, Judge Somoud al-Damiri is one of the first female Muslim judges working in sharīʿa courts in the Middle East. At the same time\, she is public prosecutor in family law in Ramallah. Professor Maria Wersig is a German Professor of law in social work at the University of Applied Science in Dortmund. Her work focuses on law and gender and anti-discrimination legislation. Both will assess the role of female judges in their legal orders and the question of anti-discrimination for women.
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/double-talk-female-judges-experiences-successes-and-challenges-in-palestine-and-germany/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180627
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180630
DTSTAMP:20180626T213019Z
CREATED:20180626T213019Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180626T213019Z
UID:10000988-1530122400-1530295199@pil.law.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Workshop: Uses of the Past: Islamic International Law and the Problem of Translation
DESCRIPTION:The work­shop is orga­ni­zed as a coope­ra­tion bet­ween Prof. Dr. Irene Schnei­der\, Dr. Nijmi Edres\, Prof. Dr. Jens Hans­sen\, Semi­nar für Arabistik/Islamwissenschaft\, Göt­tin­gen Uni­ver­sity and Dr. Nahed Samour\, Lichtenberg-Kolleg\, Göt­tin­gen\, Insti­tute of Advan­ced Study\, in the frame of the activi­ties of the HERA pro­ject Under­stan­ding Sharīʿah: Past Per­fect\, Imper­fect Pre­sent www.usppip.eu.
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/workshop-uses-of-the-past-islamic-international-law-and-the-problem-of-translation/
CATEGORIES:conferences and workshops
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180701
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180705
DTSTAMP:20180626T213441Z
CREATED:20180626T213441Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180626T213441Z
UID:10000989-1530468000-1530727199@pil.law.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Course: Digital Islamic Humanities
DESCRIPTION:The three-day intensive course in Digital Islamic Humanities is intended for advanced graduate students and other qualified participants. It will be offered by Dr Maxim Romanov (Universität Wien) and will be held immediately before the fifth conference of the School of Mamluk Studies at Ghent University\, in collaboration with the Ghent Centre for Digital Humanities (July 2-4\, 2018). The course will be demanding and hands-on in its format\, but no previous training is required. The course will cover topics such as digitization\, computational analysis\, datamodelling\, etc.\, and will introduce digital tools\, projects\, repositories and practices that are currently available for historical/Islamic/Mamluk research. The Fifth Conference of the School of Mamluk Studies wiill immediately follow.
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/course-digital-islamic-humanities/
LOCATION:Ghent University\, Ghent\, Belgium
CATEGORIES:conferences and workshops,events in Islamic legal studies
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180703
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180706
DTSTAMP:20180626T213643Z
CREATED:20180626T213643Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180626T213643Z
UID:10000990-1530644400-1530817199@pil.law.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Workshop: Cultural Expertise in Ancient and Modern History
DESCRIPTION:This workshop takes place within the project Cultural Expertise in Europe: What is it useful for? (EURO-EXPERT) funded by the European Research Council and directed by Livia Holden. This workshop explores cultural expertise in the ancient and modern history of expert witnessing. The stress of this workshop will be on development and change of culture-related expert witnessing\, culture-related adjudication and resolution of dispute\, criminal litigation and other kinds of court and out of court proceedings that make reference to notions of culture with or without the appointment of experts. Two sets of topics will be discussed: the reflection on the definition of cultural expertise and its ancient and modern historical background. This workshop aims on the one hand to understand if cultural expertise has been relevant in court and out of court for the resolution of conflicts in the history of law\, and on the other hand to trace the historical developments of most recent trends of cultural expertise. How does ancient and modern history report the judicial practices involving the specialists of local laws and customs? What have been the most frequent fields of expert witnessing that are related with culture? Who were the experts? What were their links with local communities and also with the courts and the state power? How cultural expert witnessing was received by judges and other members of the legal profession?
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/workshop-cultural-expertise-in-ancient-and-modern-history/
CATEGORIES:conferences and workshops,courses,events in Islamic legal studies
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180704
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180708
DTSTAMP:20180626T213837Z
CREATED:20180626T213837Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180626T213837Z
UID:10000991-1530727200-1530986399@pil.law.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Fifth Conference of the School of Mamluk Studies
DESCRIPTION:The first day of the conference\, July 5\, will be themed. The theme of this part of the conference will be Historiography/Adab. The following two days of the conference (July 6 and 7) will be structured in pre-organized panels that will focus on any aspect of the intellectual\, political\, social\, economic\, and artistic life of the Mamluk period.
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/fifth-conference-of-the-school-of-mamluk-studies/
LOCATION:Ghent University\, Ghent\, Belgium
CATEGORIES:conferences and workshops,events in Islamic legal studies
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180709
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180712
DTSTAMP:20180705T053327Z
CREATED:20180705T053327Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180705T053327Z
UID:10000824-1531094400-1531353599@pil.law.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Conference: Sources of Pluralism in Islamic Thought
DESCRIPTION:As a global religion\, Islam and its jurisprudence have offered heterogeneous responses to a range of questions facing different faiths and communities. Modernity imposed new questions upon religious scholars\, theologians and philosophers\, demanding of them a new version of pluralism in the theological and political arenas. While doctrinal or philosophical exclusivism rejects “the other” in theory — and frequently in practice\, too — inclusivism connotes the accommodation and toleration of difference. But if that means the reluctant acceptance of difference within a hierarchy of worldviews\, inclusion may not be enough to create more egalitarianism within modern multicultural societies. Modern pluralism might come to mean\, instead\, a robust appreciation of human diversity and values. \nReset Dialogues in partnership with the King Abdul-Aziz Al Saoud Foundation for Islamic Studies and Human Sciences and the Granada Institute for Higher Education and Research are pleased to present this international symposium that was made possible also thanks to the support of Henry Luce Foundation’s Initiative on Religion in International Affairs\, Nomis Foundation and the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/conference-sources-of-pluralism-in-islamic-thought/
LOCATION:Fondation du Roi Abdul-Aziz\, Casablanca\, Morocco
CATEGORIES:conferences and workshops,events in Islamic legal studies
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180722
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180729
DTSTAMP:20170926T190907Z
CREATED:20170926T190907Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170926T190907Z
UID:10000899-1532217600-1532822399@pil.law.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:20th General Congress of the International Academy of Comparative Law
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/20th-international-congress-younger-scholars-forum-in-comparative-law/
LOCATION:Kyushu University and Fukuoka International Conference Center\, Fukuoka\, Japan
CATEGORIES:conferences and workshops
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180801
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180802
DTSTAMP:20180518T185756Z
CREATED:20180518T185756Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180518T185756Z
UID:10000980-1533081600-1533167999@pil.law.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:CFP: Reception\, appropriation\, and innovation: Byzantium between the Christian and Islamic worlds. The 2nd Annual International Graduate Edinburgh Byzantine Conference
DESCRIPTION:CFP: Reception\, appropriation\, and innovation: Byzantium between the Christian and Islamic worlds. The 2nd Annual International Graduate Edinburgh Byzantine Conference. (30 Nov – 1 Dec 2018) \nby Mathew Barber \nReception and appropriation (whether reuse\, imitation\, or variation) have long been recognised as necessary tools for the interpretation of Byzantine literature\, art\, architecture and archaeology\, while research on innovations is still at a relatively early stage. \nThe key theme of this conference is dialogue – dialogue between Byzantium and its neighbouring cultures. The conference will explore all three of the fundamental modes of dialogue and discourse (reception\, appropriation and innovation) between Byzantium and its neighbours during any time period from the 5th-15th c. Confirmed invited speakers include Professor Claudia Rapp (Vienna)\, Dr Andrew Marsham (Cambridge)\, and Father Justin Sinaites (Librarian of St. Catherine’s\, Mt. Sinai)\, in addition to confirmed internal speakers\, both Byzantinists and Islamicists. \nWe strongly encourage papers highlighting exchange in both directions\, Byzantium receiving from other cultures and/or others receiving from Byzantium. Possible topics include\, but are certainly not limited to: \n\nBefore the Christian and Islamic Worlds: reception and appropriation of Classical Greek or Latin heritage within Byzantium – perspectives from culture\, text\, legislation\, gender\, symbolism\, art\, etc.\nContemporary exchange and attempts at imitation (concepts of culture\, text\, gender\, legislation\, symbolism etc.) between Byzantium\, the Islamic World\, Latin Europe and imperial courts\nArtistic similarities (visual art\, sculpture\, painting\, etc.)\, whether as a result of promotion or prohibition\, as an expression or mode of cultural exchange or identification across East and West\nProduction\, circulation and demand for luxury goods or household artefacts as evidence for dialogue and/or interaction between Byzantium and its neighbours\nUrban layout and rural landscape: military\, civil and religious architecture in cities and countryside – common links and peculiarities between Byzantium and neighbouring powers\nInterdisciplinary approaches to interpretations of Byzantine (inter)action throughout the Mediterranean\, taking into account multiple types of primary source evidence\n\nThe deadline for submission of abstracts is 1 August\, and notification of acceptance will be communicated by mid-August. Please submit your abstract of no more than 300 words to edibyzpg@ed.ac.uk with your name and affiliation.  \nThere will be a small registration fee of £10\, and lunch will be provided on both days. We will aim to publish a selection of the papers in a peer-reviewed volume that will bring together the strongest contributions in each area in order to produce an edited volume of high-quality\, deep coherence and rich variety. \nThe Organising Committee\, \nMathew Barber\, Alasdair Grant\, Mark Huggins\, Matteo Randazzo\, Margherita Riso
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/cfp-reception-appropriation-and-innovation-byzantium-between-the-christian-and-islamic-worlds-the-2nd-annual-international-graduate-edinburgh-byzantine-conference/
CATEGORIES:Call for papers,Due dates,Opportunities
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180814
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180818
DTSTAMP:20170926T180848Z
CREATED:20170926T180848Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170926T180848Z
UID:10000866-1534204800-1534550399@pil.law.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Twelfth Biennial Iranian Studies Conference
DESCRIPTION:At the Jordan Center for Persian Studies and Culture
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/twelfth-biennial-iranian-studies-conference/
LOCATION:University of California\, Irvine
CATEGORIES:conferences and workshops
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180903
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20181127
DTSTAMP:20180813T001832Z
CREATED:20180813T001832Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180813T001832Z
UID:10000828-1535932800-1543276799@pil.law.harvard.edu
SUMMARY:Middle East Beyond Borders Graduate Student Workshop
DESCRIPTION:The Middle East Beyond Borders Graduate Student Workshop aims to foster an interdisciplinary community of scholars working on the past and present of the Middle East. It takes as its founding premise the idea that the “Middle East” as an object of inquiry must fundamentally engage notions of boundaries\, mobility and transformation. Our goal is to offer a platform for collaboration and discussion to all Middle East scholars at Harvard\, across a wide range of academic fields and disciplines. \nIf you are interested in workshopping a dissertation/book chapter or PhD prospectus draft this Fall 2018\, please get in touch with us as soon as possible! Workshops are scheduled for 6:00 pm on alternating Mondays during the months of September\, October\, and November. \nIf you would like to present\, please email Johannes Makar (jmakar@g.harvard.edu) or Armaan Siddiqi (asiddiqi@g.harvard.edu) with your preferred month and a working title of your paper.
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/middle-east-beyond-borders-graduate-student-workshop/
LOCATION:Harvard University\, Cambridge\, MA
CATEGORIES:conferences and workshops,Due dates,Opportunities
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180909
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180914
DTSTAMP:20180122T184444Z
CREATED:20180122T184444Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180122T184444Z
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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. \n\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/
LOCATION:ISCTE-IUL
CATEGORIES:conferences and workshops
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SUMMARY:SHARIAsource Welcome Lunch
DESCRIPTION:Lunch with current ILSP: SHARIAsource staff\, fellows\, and affiliates who will discuss their research and other work in Islamic law this year. By invitation only.
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/shariasource-welcome-lunch/
CATEGORIES:SHARIAsource events
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SUMMARY:Conference: West Africa and the Maghreb (Harvard University)
DESCRIPTION:West Africa and the Maghreb: Reassessing Intellectual Connections in the 21st Century \n  \nThursday\, September 13\, 2018 \nWelcome Address 5.30-5.45 PM \nDavid N. Hempton\, Dean of Harvard Divinity School \nHDS Faculty Grant Program \nJanet Gyatso\, Academic Dean of Harvard Divinity School \nKeynote Lecture \n5.45-7.00 PM \nOusmane Kane\, “The Transformation of the Pilgrimage Tradition in West Africa” \n  \nFriday\, September 14\, 2018 \nPanel 1:  Sufism and Sufi Orders in Muslim Africa\n9.15 AM-11.15 AM \nChair: Stephanie Paulsell\, Harvard Divinity School \n\nArmaan Sidiqi\, Harvard University\, “Examining Sufis in Politics and ‘Politicized Sufism’: a case study of the Boutchichiyya” \nJaison M. Carter\, Harvard University\, ”Black Muslimness Mobilized: A Study of West African Sufism in Diaspora”\nAriela Marcus-Sells\, Elon University\, “Technologies of Devotion in the works of Sidi Mukhtar al-Kunti”\nChristine Thun-Nhi Dang\, New York University\, “The Politics of Love in African Performances of Sufi Poetry”\n\n  \nPanel 2: Prayers\, Invocations and the Talismanic Tradition\n12.00 PM-2.00 PM \nChair: Kimberly C. Patton\, Harvard Divinity School \n\nJames C. Riggan\, Florida State University\, “Qur’anic Exorcism in North and West Africa”\nZachary Wright\, Northwestern University Qatar and Adam Larson\, Weill Cornell University – Qatar\,“Genealogy of Prayer Manuals 18thCentury to the Present”\nPaul Anderson\, Harvard\, “Bewitched\, Bothered and Bewildered: A Reconsideration of the Evil Eye and Ruqyah through Ethnographic Analysis”\nOludamini Ogunnaike\, College of Williams and Mary\, “Poetry in Praise of Prophetic Perfection: West African Madih Poetry and its Precedents”\n\n  \nPanel 3: Re-evalutating the Historic Core Curriculum\n2.45-4.45 PM \nChair: Charles Hallisey\, Harvard Divinity School \n\nIsmail Warcheid\, CNRS France\, “Scholarly Networks\, Legal Debates\, and Territorial Integration”\nDavid Owen\, Harvard University\, “Of Radd and Sharḥ and Ṭurra : The Long and Late Dynamism of the African Commentary Tradition on Akhḍarī’s Sullam on Avicennian Organon Logic”\nAlexis Trouillot\, Université Paris VII\,  “The Study of Mathematics in the Sahel from the 15thto the 20th”\nAbubakar Abdulkadir\, University of Alberta\, Canada\, “Poetry in West Africa and the Maghreb”\n\n  \n17.00-18.00 Concert by Noor Ensemble (Braun Room)\nNoor Ensemble is composed of artists from Morocco\, Palestine\, Lebanon\, Egypt and Iraq who sing for God\, Prophets and Peace and Love. Noor Ensemble try to build up the bridge between all nations and people \n  \nSaturday\, September 15\, 2018 \nPanel 4: Jihadi Ideology: What is new\, what is not? \n8.30 AM-10.30 AM \nChair: Francis X. Clooney\, S.J.\, Harvard Divinity School \n\nWilliam Miles\, Northeastern University\, “Jihadism in Muslim West Africa in historical perspective”\nAbdulbasit Kassim\, Rice University\, Jihadi-Salafism and the Vocabulary of Takfīr in the 21st Century Hausaland and Bornu”\nZekeria Ould Ahmed Salem\, Northwestern University Evanston\, “Assessing the Salafi Current in the Islamic Republic of Mauritania”\nAnouar Boukhars\, McDaniel College\, “The Strategic Incentives for Insurgents to Embrace Extreme Ideology: The Case of the Sahel and Maghreb”\n\n  \nPanel 5: New Intellectual Connections \n10.45 AM-12.45 PM \nChair: Jacob K. Olupona\, Harvard Divinity School \n\nMansour Kedidir\, CRASC Algeria\, “Connections of Intellectuals in the Maghreb and Sub-Saharan Africa: Trajectories and Representations”\nFatima Harrak\, Institute of African Studies\, Rabat Morocco\, “Research on Moroccan-African Relations at the Rabat Institute of African Studies”\nRobert Parks\,  CEMA\, Algeria\, “American Research Centers in North Africa and Sahara-Sahel Studies”\nEbrima Sall\, Trust Africa\, Senegal “CODESRIA and the New Pan-Africanist Intellectual Connections Across the Sahara”
URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/conference-west-africa-and-the-maghreb-harvard-university/
LOCATION:Harvard Divinity School\, Sperry Room\, 45 Francis Ave\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138
CATEGORIES:conferences and workshops,events in Islamic legal studies
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