BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Program in Islamic Law - ECPv6.17.2//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Program in Islamic Law REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20220313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20221106T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20230312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20231105T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20240310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20241103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20250309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20251102T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231003T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231003T183000 DTSTAMP:20231003T235022Z CREATED:20230929T143931Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231003T235022Z UID:10001552-1696352400-1696357800@pil.law.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Book talk: “Taming the Messiah: The Formation of an Ottoman Political Public Sphere\, 1600-1700” by Aslihan Gurbuzel\, CMES\, Harvard University\, October 3\, 2023 DESCRIPTION:From the CMES website: \nDate: Tuesday\, October 3\, 2023\, 5:00pm to 6:30pm; Location: CMES\, Room 102\, 38 Kirkland St\, Cambridge\, MA 02138 \n\nAslihan Gurbuzel\, Assistant Professor of Ottoman history\, Institute of Islamic Studies\, McGill University; Discussant: Hannah Marcus\, John and Ruth Hazel Associate Professor of the Social Sciences; Interim Faculty Director of the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments\, Harvard University\n\n\nIn the history of the Ottoman Empire\, the seventeenth century has often been considered an anomaly\, characterized by political dissent and social conflict. In this book\, Aslıhan Gürbüzel shows how the early modern period was\, in fact\, crucial to the formation of new kinds of political agency that challenged\, negotiated with\, and ultimately reshaped the Ottoman social order. Taming the Messiah offers a new method of studying public political life by focusing on the variety of religious visions and lifeworlds native to Ottoman society and the ways in which they were appropriated and repurposed in the pursuit of new forms of civic engagement. \nAslıhan Gürbüzel is an assistant professor of Ottoman history at the McGill Institute of Islamic Studies in Montreal. She completed her PhD in History and Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University in 2016. Her research and teaching interest include History of the Ottoman Empire\, Islamic Political Thought\, Religious Movements to 1800\, and Manuscript Studies. \nFor more details\, visit here. URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/book-talk-taming-the-messiah-the-formation-of-an-ottoman-political-public-sphere-1600-1700-by-aslihan-gurbuzel-cmes-harvard-university-october-3-2023/ CATEGORIES:Harvard Events,lectures and talks END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231023T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231023T190000 DTSTAMP:20231023T235302Z CREATED:20230929T143932Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231023T235302Z UID:10001554-1698084000-1698087600@pil.law.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Book talk: Nathan Thrall’s “A Day in the Life of Abed Salama” – A Book talk with Kenneth Roth\, CMES\, Harvard University\, October 23\, 2023 DESCRIPTION:From the CMES website: \n\nDate: Monday\, October 23\, 2023\, 6:00pm to 7:00pm; Location: Wasserstein 1010\, Harvard Law School campus \nJoin the HKS Carr Center for Human Rights Policy for a book talk with author Nathan Thrall as he discusses his latest book\, A Day in the Life of Abed Salama\, with Carr Center Senior Fellow\, Kenneth Roth. \nMilad is five years old and excited for his school trip to a theme park on the outskirts of Jerusalem\, but tragedy awaits: his bus is involved in a horrific accident. His father\, Abed\, rushes to the chaotic site\, only to find Milad has already been taken away. Abed sets off on a journey to learn Milad’s fate\, navigating a maze of physical\, emotional\, and bureaucratic obstacles he must face as a Palestinian. \nInterwoven with Abed’s odyssey are the stories of Jewish and Palestinian characters whose lives and pasts unexpectedly converge: a kindergarten teacher and a mechanic who rescue children from the burning bus; an Israeli army commander and a Palestinian official who confront the aftermath at the scene of the crash; a settler paramedic; ultra-Orthodox emergency service workers; and two mothers who each hope to claim one severely injured boy. \nA Day in the Life of Abed Salama is a deeply immersive\, stunningly detailed portrait of life in Israel and Palestine\, and an illumination of the reality of one of the most contested places on earth. \nNathan Thrall is the author of The Only Language They Understand: Forcing Compromise in Israel and Palestine. His writing has appeared in the London Review of Books\, Guardian\, New York Review of Books\, and The New York Times Magazine and has been translated into more than a dozen languages. He spent a decade at the International Crisis Group\, where he was Director of the Arab-Israeli Project\, and has taught at Bard College\, New York. He lives in Jerusalem. \nKenneth Roth is the former executive director of Human Rights Watch\, one of the world’s leading international human rights organizations\, which operates in more than 90 countries. Prior to joining Human Rights Watch in 1987\, Roth served as a federal prosecutor in New York and for the Iran-Contra investigation in Washington\, DC. A graduate of Yale Law School and Brown University\, Roth has conducted numerous human rights investigations and missions around the world. He has written extensively on a wide range of human rights abuses\, devoting special attention to issues of international justice\, counterterrorism\, the foreign policies of the major powers\, and the work of the United Nations. \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Religion\, Conflict\, and Peace Initiative (Harvard Divinity School)\, Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy (Northeastern)\, Human Rights Program (Harvard Law School)\, the Program in Law and Society in the Muslim World (Harvard Law School)\, and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies (Harvard University). \nFor more details\, visit here. URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/book-talk-nathan-thralls-a-day-in-the-life-of-abed-salama-a-book-talk-with-kenneth-roth-cmes-harvard-university-october-23-2023/ CATEGORIES:Harvard Events,lectures and talks END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231115T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231115T193000 DTSTAMP:20231115T235305Z CREATED:20230929T143933Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231115T235305Z UID:10001555-1700071200-1700076600@pil.law.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Talk: “Chasing Floods: the Ottoman Introduction of Rice in the Balkan Peninsula” by Aleksandar Shopov\, CMES\, Harvard University\, November 15\, 2023 DESCRIPTION:From the CMES website: \nDate: Wednesday\, November 15\, 2023\, 6:00pm to 7:30pm; Location: CMES\, Rm 102\, 38 Kirkland St\, Cambridge\, MA 02138 \nThe CMES Disaster Studies Initiative is pleased to present Aleksandar Shopov\, Visiting Scholar\, CMES; Assistant Professor\, History\, SUNY Binghamton University. \nFor more details\, visit here. URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/talk-chasing-floods-the-ottoman-introduction-of-rice-in-the-balkan-peninsula-by-aleksandar-shopov-cmes-harvard-university-november-15-2023/ CATEGORIES:Harvard Events,lectures and talks END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20231117 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231118 DTSTAMP:20231117T235054Z CREATED:20231106T123653Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231117T235054Z UID:10001572-1700179200-1700265599@pil.law.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Winter Excursion to Tunisia: Center for Middle Eastern Studies\, Harvard University\, November 17\, 2023 DESCRIPTION:The Center for Middle Eastern Studies offers a study excursion to Tunisia in January 2024. This year’s expected dates are January 2 – 19. A predeparture meeting for accepted students will be held during reading week. \nThis three-week itinerary\, based in the city of Tunis\, focuses on thehistory and culture of Tunisiaand how they intersect with landscape and urbanism. The field-based programis intended for students whose primary focus is on North African and Middle Eastern Studies. The program is open to graduate students across Harvard’s schools. Undergraduates who are concentrating on fields relatedto North Africa and the Middle East are also eligible to apply\, with priority given to students in their junior or senior year. Participants must be enrolled as students at the time the program takes place. \nOne letter of reference\, a transcript/grade report\, and a one-page statement of purpose are required. The reference letter should come from a Harvard faculty member\, ideally one whose work relates to the MENA region. \nLodging\, food\, airfare\, and meals will be covered by CMES. \nIn order to comply with Tunisian regulations\, all students must be fully vaccinated. Non-US citizens are responsible for arranging any needed visas. \nThis winter excursion to Tunisia is available to full-time\, registered Harvard graduate students and upperclassmen. Preference is given to graduate students with MENA interests. \nOne letter of recommendation\, transcript (unofficial accepted)\, and personal statement required. \nThe deadline for applications is November 17\, 2023. \nFor more information\, visit here. URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/winter-excursion-to-tunisia-center-for-middle-eastern-studies-harvard-university-november-17-2023/ CATEGORIES:Applications,Due dates,Harvard Events,Opportunities END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231128T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231128T183000 DTSTAMP:20231128T233513Z CREATED:20230929T143934Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231128T233513Z UID:10001557-1701190800-1701196200@pil.law.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Talk: “The ‘Khitat’ of al-Maqrizi: Narrating History on the Tempo of ‘Kharab'” by Nasser Rabat\, CMES\, Harvard University\, November 28\, 2023 DESCRIPTION:From the CMES website: \nDate: Tuesday\, November 28\, 2023\, 5:00pm to 6:30pm; Location: CMES\, Rm 102\, 38 Kirkland St\, Cambridge\, MA 02138 \nThe CMES Disaster Studies Initiative presents Nasser Rabbat Aga Khan Professor and Director of the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture\,  MIT \nNasser Rabbat is the Aga Khan Professor and Director of the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at MIT.  His interests include Islamic architecture\, urban history\, heritage studies\, Arab history\, contemporary Islamic art\, and post-colonial criticism.  He teaches lecture courses on Islamic architecture\, the architecture of Cairo\, and Islamic architecture and the environment and seminars on Orientalism and colonialism; Issues in Islamic Urbanism; Historiography of Islamic Architecture; Late Antiquity and the foundation of Islamic architecture; Reading Ibn Khaldun; (Re)constructing Memory; Urbicide; and Balancing Globalism and Regionalism in the Arabian Gulf cities. \nProfessor Rabbat has published more than a hundred scholarly articles and several books on topics ranging from Mamluk architecture to Antique Syria\, 19th century Cairo\, Orientalism\, and urbicide.  His most recent books are Writing Egypt: Al-Maqrizi and His Historical Project (2022); ‘Imarat al-Mudun al-Mayyita (The Architecture of the Dead Cities) (2018)\, and an online book\, The Destruction of Cultural Heritage: From Napoléon to ISIS\, co-edited with Pamela Karimi (2016).  His co-edited book\, Construction as Destruction: The Case of Syria will be published in 2023 by AUC Press.  He is currently editing a book on the cultural history of Syria to be published by Edinburgh University Press.  His next book project is a history of Mamluk Cairo\, which is under contract with AUC Press. \nFor more information\, visit here. URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/talk-the-khitat-of-al-maqrizi-narrating-history-on-the-tempo-of-kharab-by-nasser-rabat-cmes-harvard-university-november-28-2023/ CATEGORIES:Harvard Events,lectures and talks END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231129T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231129T193000 DTSTAMP:20231129T232205Z CREATED:20230929T143934Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231129T232205Z UID:10001558-1701280800-1701286200@pil.law.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Talk: “Locusts of Power” by Samuel Dolbee\, CMES\, Harvard University\, November 29\, 2023 DESCRIPTION:From the CMES website: \nDate: Wednesday\, November 29\, 2023\, 6:00pm to 7:30pm; Location: CMES\, Rm 102\, 38 Kirkland St\, Cambridge\, MA 02138 \nThe CMES Environmental Studies of the Middle East Speaker Series is pleased to present Samuel Dolbee\, Assistant Professor of History\, Family Dean’s Faculty Fellow in Studies of the Middle East\, Vanderbilt University \nSamuel Dolbee\, Assistant Professor\, Vanderbilt University\, is an environmental historian of the Ottoman Empire and the modern Middle East\, with interests in agriculture\, disease\, and science. He teaches courses in the Department of History and as part of the Climate Studies major. \nHis first book from Cambridge University Press is entitled Locusts of Power: Borders\, Empire\, and Environment in the Modern Middle East (June 2023). The book offers a new account of the end of the Ottoman Empire and the emergence of the states of Iraq\, Syria\, and Turkey grounded in the ecology of the Jazira region\, its mobile people\, and distinctive locusts. It unearths what borders meant in the lives of not only locusts but also Arab and Kurdish nomads\, Armenian deportees\, and Assyrian refugees. His next project is an environmental history of the microbe in the late Ottoman Empire. It is concerned at once with new treatments and spatial controls established against ailments like phylloxera\, rabies\, and rinderpest—which devastated the empire’s grape vines\, street dogs\, and cattle—as well as the way the language of germs infected the language of politics in the empire’s final years. \nDolbee’s scholarship has appeared in the American Historical Review\, Past & Present\, and International Journal of Middle East Studies. He has also contributed chapters to edited volumes on the history of food and disease\, respectively. He is the editor in chief of Ottoman History Podcast. \nPrior to coming to Vanderbilt\, Dolbee was a lecturer on History & Literature at Harvard. He previously held postdoctoral fellowships at Yale’s Program in Agrarian Studies\, Harvard’s Mahindra Humanities Center\, and Brandeis University’s Crown Center for Middle East Studies. Dolbee completed his PhD at New York University in the joint program in History and Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies\, and has an MA in Arab Studies from Georgetown University and a BA in History and International Studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. \nFor more information\, visit here. URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/talk-locusts-of-power-by-samuel-dolbee-cmes-harvard-university-november-29-2023/ CATEGORIES:Harvard Events,lectures and talks END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240115 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240116 DTSTAMP:20240115T233540Z CREATED:20240104T192142Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240115T233540Z UID:10001583-1705276800-1705363199@pil.law.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Visiting Researcher: Center for Middle Eastern Studies\, Harvard University\, 2024-25\, January 15\, 2024 DESCRIPTION:Applications for the CMES Visiting Researcher Program are due January 15. \nCMES is currently accepting applications for unpaid Visiting Researcher positions for the 2024-25 academic year. The main appointment categories are Visiting Scholar\, for tenured and tenure-track faculty members on paid leave from other institutions\, and Visiting Fellow\, typically specialists in the region who work outside of academia. \nThe support of a CMES-affiliated Faculty Sponsor must be arranged prior to completing the application. \nApplicants should propose a project to be completed in person at Harvard University that explores one or both of the following themes: \n1.  Environment/Climate\n2.  Palestine \nA description of application requirements and a link to the portal can be found here. \nPlease contact Jesse Howell (jhowell@fas.harvard.edu ) with questions. URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/visiting-researcher-center-for-middle-eastern-studies-harvard-university-2024-25-january-15-2024/ CATEGORIES:Applications,Due dates,Fellowships,Harvard Events,Opportunities END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240214T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240214T183000 DTSTAMP:20240214T232216Z CREATED:20240201T203359Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240214T232216Z UID:10001604-1707930000-1707935400@pil.law.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Book talk: “Bedouin Bureaucrats: Mobility and Property in the Ottoman Empire” with Nora Barakat\, Center for Middle Eastern Studies\, Harvard University\, February 14\, 2024 DESCRIPTION:Book talk: “Bedouin Bureaucrats: Mobility and Property in the Ottoman Empire” \nDate: Wednesday\, February 14\, 2024\,  5:00pm to 6:30pm \nLocation: CMES\, Rm 102\, 38 Kirkland St\, Cambridge\, MA 02138 \nThe CMES New Works in Middle East Studies series presents \nNora Barakat\nAssistant Professor of History\, Stanford University \nIn the late nineteenth century\, the Ottoman government sought to fill landscapes they legally defined as “empty.” Both land and people were incorporated into territorially bounded grids of administrative law. Bedouin Bureaucrats examines how tent-dwelling\, seasonally migrating Bedouin engaged in these processes of Ottoman state transformation on local\, imperial\, and global scales. As the “tribe” became a category of Ottoman administration\, Bedouin in the Syrian interior used this category both to gain political influence and to organize community resistance to maintain control over land. \nNarrating the lives of Bedouin individuals involved in Ottoman administration\, Nora Elizabeth Barakat brings this population to the center of modern state-making\, from their involvement in the pilgrimage administration in the eighteenth century and their performance of land registration and taxation as the Ottoman bureaucracy expanded in the nineteenth\, to their eventual rejection of Ottoman attempts to reallocate the “empty land” they inhabited in the twentieth. She places the Syrian interior in a global context of imperial expansion into regions formerly deemed marginal\, especially in relation to American and Russian empires. Ultimately\, the book illuminates Ottoman state formation attempts within Bedouin communities and the unique trajectory of Bedouin in Syria\, who maintained their control over land. \nLink: https://cmes.fas.harvard.edu/event/book-talk-bedouin-bureaucrats-mobility-and-property-ottoman-empire\nContact: Liz Flanagan URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/book-talk-bedouin-bureaucrats-mobility-and-property-in-the-ottoman-empire-with-nora-barakat-center-for-middle-eastern-studies-harvard-university-february-14-2024/ CATEGORIES:Harvard Events,lectures and talks END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240228T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240228T183000 DTSTAMP:20240228T233508Z CREATED:20240226T233444Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240228T233508Z UID:10001615-1709139600-1709145000@pil.law.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Talk: “Rivers of the Sultan: The Tigris and Euphrates in the Ottoman Empire” with Faisal Husain\, Center for Middle Eastern Studies\, Harvard University\, February 28\, 2024 DESCRIPTION:The CMES Environmental Studies of the Middle East Speaker Series presents \n“Rivers of the Sultan: The Tigris and Euphrates in the Ottoman Empire” with Faisal Husain\, Assistant Professor of History\, Department of History\, College of the Liberal Arts\, Penn State \n“Rivers of the Sultan” offers a history of the Ottoman Empire’s management of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in the early modern period. During the early sixteenth century\, a radical political realignment in West Asia placed the reins of the Tigris and Euphrates in the hands of Istanbul. The political unification of the longest rivers in West Asia allowed the Ottoman state to rebalance the natural resource disparity along its eastern frontier. It regularly organized the shipment of grain\, metal\, and timber from upstream areas of surplus in Anatolia and the Jazira to downstream areas of need in Iraq. This imperial system of waterborne communication\, the book argues\, created heavily militarized fortresses that anchored the Ottoman presence in Iraq\, enabling Istanbul to hold in check foreign and domestic challenges to its authority and to exploit the organic wealth of the Tigris-Euphrates alluvium. From the end of the seventeenth century\, the convergence of natural and human disasters transformed the Ottoman Empire’s relationship with its twin rivers. A trend toward provincial autonomy ensued that would localize the Ottoman management of the Tigris and Euphrates and shift its command post from Istanbul to the provinces. By placing a river system at the center of analysis\, this book reveals intimate bonds between valley and mountain\, water and power in the early modern world. \nFebruary 28\, 2024\n5:00pm to 6:30pm \nCMES\, Rm 102\n38 Kirkland St\, Cambridge\, MA 02138 \nLink: https://cmes.fas.harvard.edu/event/rivers-sultan-tigris-and-euphrates-ottoman-empire\nContact: Liz Flanagan URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/talk-rivers-of-the-sultan-the-tigris-and-euphrates-in-the-ottoman-empire-with-faisal-husain-center-for-middle-eastern-studies-harvard-university-february-28-2024/ CATEGORIES:Harvard Events,lectures and talks END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240306T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240306T123000 DTSTAMP:20240306T235204Z CREATED:20240226T233444Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240306T235204Z UID:10001617-1709722800-1709728200@pil.law.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Talk: “Palestinian Women in Gaza: War\, Health\, and Feminist Solidarity\,” Center for Middle Eastern Studies\, Harvard University\, March 6\, 2024 DESCRIPTION:Palestinian Women in Gaza: War\, Health\, and Feminist Solidarity\nDate: Wednesday\, March 6\, 2024\, 11:00am to 12:30pm\nLocation: Online webinar.\nFor more information\, see here. URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/talk-palestinian-women-in-gaza-war-health-and-feminist-solidarity-center-for-middle-eastern-studies-harvard-university-march-6-2024/ CATEGORIES:conferences and workshops,Harvard Events,lectures and talks END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240306T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240306T183000 DTSTAMP:20240306T235204Z CREATED:20240226T233445Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240306T235204Z UID:10001618-1709744400-1709749800@pil.law.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Book talk: “The Color Black: Enslavement and Erasure in Iran\,” Center for Middle Eastern Studies\, Harvard University\, March 6\, 2024 DESCRIPTION:Book talk “The Color Black: Enslavement and Erasure in Iran”\nDate: Wednesday\, March 6\, 2024\, 5:00pm to 6:30pm\nLocation: CMES\, Rm 102\, 38 Kirkland St\, Cambridge\, MA 02138\nSee here for more information. URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/book-talk-the-color-black-enslavement-and-erasure-in-iran-center-for-middle-eastern-studies-harvard-university-march-6-2024/ CATEGORIES:events in Islamic legal studies,Harvard Events,lectures and talks END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR