Islam in Africa Lecture Series – Caitlyn Bolton
Islam in Africa Lecture Series – Caitlyn Bolton
Caitlyn Bolton, CUNY Spiritual Capital: Islamic Education and Social Change in a Zazibari Madrasa
Caitlyn Bolton, CUNY Spiritual Capital: Islamic Education and Social Change in a Zazibari Madrasa
Harvard Law School Summer Public Interest Funding covers work abroad as well as in the US and students may apply for supplementary funding though such programs as the Chayes International Public Service Fellowship. As well, staff in International Legal Studies, OCS and OPIA can help students identify summer placements in other countries. Strong candidates are …
Call for Papers: Thirteenth International Junior Faculty Forum, Stanford Law SchoolSponsored by Stanford Law School, the International Junior Faculty Forum (IJFF) was established to stimulate the exchange of ideas and research among younger legal scholars from around the world. We live today in a global community– in particular, a global legal community. The IJFF is …
All applications must be submitted via CARAT, the Centralized Application for Research and Travel electronic application platform. The application deadline for these opportunities is February 12, 2020. Thesis Research Grants for Undergraduates: The Weatherhead Center runs an annual competition to award 15 to 20 travel grants to support the summer field research of Harvard undergraduates. These …
The Center for Middle Eastern Studies is offering summer term A.J. Meyer Fellowships for Harvard college undergraduates or graduate students in any Harvard school who will enroll in a full-time intensive Arabic language summer program in an Arabic speaking country. Absolute beginners will not be considered. Preference given to students who study the Arab world …
Applications are now open for the Tunisia Intensive Arabic Language Study Summer 2020The Center for Middle Eastern Studies is offering an intensive Arabic Language Study program in Tunisia, June-July 2020. The course focuses on developing advanced reading and research skills in modern Arabic humanities and social sciences. Applicants must by graduate students currently enrolled at …
Raoul Berger-Mark DeWolfe Howe Legal History FellowshipHarvard Law School invites applications for the Berger-Howe Fellowship for the academic year 2020-2021. Eligible applicants include those who have a first law degree, who have completed the required coursework for a doctorate, or who have recently been awarded a doctoral degree. A J.D. is preferred, but not required. …
DescriptionBrown University invites applications at the level of Associate or Full Professor from a historian of art and architecture with a primary research interest in the study of any region of the Islamic world in the period before 1900, with a preference for a research focus on the period pre-1800. The appointment will begin July …
Second Workshop on Ibadi Manuscripts & Manuscript CulturesOrganizers of the Second Annual Workshop on Ibadi Manuscripts & Manuscript Cultures, "Ibadi Manuscripts in European and North American Libraries," are pleased to announce a call for participants. The workshop will be held in Lviv, Ukraine on 24-25 April 2020, and the deadline for proposals is 15 February 2020.Details can …
MESA’S 54th ANNUAL MEETINGCall for PapersDeadline: February 18, 2020The Middle East Studies Association calls for submissions from members for its 54th annual meeting to be held October 10-13, 2020 in Washington, DC.All submissions must be made through myMESA, MESA’s membership and electronic submissions system. The system is now open and closes at midnight (Mountain Standard Time) on February 18, …
Why Yemen Matters: The Heritage of a Land in Crisis Wednesday, February 19, 2020, 5-6:30 pmWhite-Levy Room, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJYemen’s war and humanitarian crisis are in the news, but very little is known about the rich cultural heritage of the southwestern corner of Arabia throughout history. Also largely unknown are Yemen’s geographic …
Dissenting Voices: The Making, Debating, and Shaping of Law 16 and 17 September 2020 University of Liège Organizers:Sophie Andreetta (MPI for Social Anthropology/ULiège)Susanne Verheul (University of Oxford)Eugenia Relano Pastor (MPI for Social Anthropology)While laws, reforms, and public policies are often assumed to be coherent (Holm Vohnsen 2017), dissenting opinions, contradicting trends in the jurisprudence, and …
Joseph Hill, University of Alberta, will be presenting on "Women Islamic leaders in West Africa" in this week's installment of the "Islam in Africa Lecture Series."Islam in Africa Lecture SeriesCritical Perspectives on the Development and Dynamics of Islam in AfricaIslam in Africa has become an important and increasingly vibrant sub-field in Islamic Studies, attracting numerous …
Joseph Hill, University of Alberta Women Islamic leaders in West Africa
Mariam Sheibani, Visiting Fellow, Program In Islamic Law, HLS The Middle East beyond borders (mebb) workshop aims to foster an interdisciplinary Community of scholars working on the past and present of the Middle East. Email Johannes Makar at [email protected] or Armaan Siddiqi at [email protected] to rsvp and receive a draft of the paper prior to …
The Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Committee on Medieval Studies, Harvard University and Program in Islamic Law welcomes William E. Granara, Gordon Gray Professor Of The Practice Of Arabic, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations & Department Of Comparative Literature, Harvard University to discuss “Narrating Muslim Sicily: War And Peace In The Medieval Muslim World”.
Lawrence Rosen, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Anthropology Emeritus, Princeton University. Tribes are characterized less by their structural forms and purported evolutionary history than by their cultural orientations and shape-shifting capability. In many parts of MENA and Asia these qualities have also contributed to tribes’ amalgamation of Islamic law. Using as the main example the …
Darryl Li, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Social Sciences in the College, and Lecturer in Law, University of Chicago Li is the author of The Universal Enemy: Jihad, Empire, and the Challenge of Solidarity (Stanford University Press, December 2019), which develops an ethnographic approach to the comparative study of universalism using the example of transnational “jihadists” …
Dawood Ahmed, B.A. and M.A. degrees in Jurisprudence from Oxford University, and LL.M. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Chicago, is looking to hire an Editor/Research Assistant. Dr. Ahmed seeks support with completing an academic book on the role of “Islam” clauses in constitutions, particularly their co-relation with human rights, providing hypothesis for the …