BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Program in Islamic Law - ECPv6.6.4.2//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:20250309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20251102T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250430 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250501 DTSTAMP:20260504T170106 CREATED:20250226T081936Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250430T235136Z UID:10001738-1745971200-1746057599@pil.law.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Call for Papers: Symposium on Legal Education in the Age of Generative Artificial Intelligence\, Royal Holloway University of London\, April 30\, 2025 DESCRIPTION:Call for Papers – Symposium on Legal Education in the Age of Generative Artificial Intelligence \nSchool of Law and Social Science\, Royal Holloway\, University of London \nDate: 30 April 2025 \nLocation: Royal Holloway\, University of London \nAbout the Symposium \nThe Symposium aims to explore the transformative impact of AI-powered tools on legal education. As legal academia and practice increasingly integrate AI-driven models such as ChatGPT\, DeepSeek\, NotebookLM\, Gemini\, Co-Pilot\, and Claude\, it is crucial to critically examine their implications for pedagogy\, legal reasoning\, and professional training. This interdisciplinary symposium will bring together scholars\, researchers\, educators\, legal practitioners\, and students from law\, computer science\, data science\, and related disciplines. The event will serve as a platform for knowledge exchange\, collaborative discussions\, and scholarly networking to advance research on AI’s role in shaping the future of legal education. \nThemes and Topics \nWe invite paper submissions that explore\, but are not limited to\, the following themes: \n• GenAI in Legal Education: How AI enhances legal research\, writing\, and analysis. \n• Pedagogical Impacts: The role of AI in fostering critical thinking and improving academic outcomes. \n• Evaluation and Benchmarking: Developing assessment frameworks for AI-generated legal responses\, including accuracy\, explainability\, and reliability. \n• Regulating AI in Legal Practice: The future role of AI tools in legal research\, case preparation\, and courtroom advocacy. \n• Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration: Integrating insights from law\, technology\, and education to develop responsible AI policies for legal academia. \nSubmission Guidelines \nWe welcome abstracts (250-300 words) for papers that contribute to the discourse on AI-driven legal education. Submissions should outline: \n• Research objectives and methodology \n• Key findings or expected contributions \n• Relevance to the symposium themes \nDeadline for Abstract Submissions: March 15\, 2025 \nNotification of Acceptance: April 15\, 2025 \nContact: Zubair.abbasi@rhul.ac.uk URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/call-for-papers-symposium-on-legal-education-in-the-age-of-generative-artificial-intelligence-royal-holloway-university-of-london-april-30-2025/ CATEGORIES:Applications,Call for papers,conferences and workshops,digital humanities,Due dates,Opportunities,tech END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250430 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250501 DTSTAMP:20260504T170106 CREATED:20250328T180504Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250430T235137Z UID:10001757-1745971200-1746057599@pil.law.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Call for Managing Editor: Program in Islamic Law\, 2025-2026 DESCRIPTION:Managing Editor\, Program in Islamic Law \nThe Program in Islamic Law (PIL) is seeking a Managing Editor to begin as early as June 2025 for a one-year term. The Managing Editor will be responsible for overseeing and coordinating the various publications-related operations at PIL\, including its Islamic Law Blog\, The Journal of Islamic Law (and its associated Forum)\, and the SHARIAsource Portal. This position reports directly to the Editor-in-Chief\, Professor Intisar Rabb\, and to the Executive Director. The Managing Editor works closely with PIL Research Fellows\, the Lab Coordinator\, the Program’s Software Engineer\, and other staff members and external authors or peer reviewers. \nKey responsibilities of the Managing Editor include\, but are not limited to: \n\ncoordinating with the Editor-in-Chief and Executive Director to ensure the smooth operation of all PIL publications-related functions;\nworking with the Journal of Islamic Law editor(s)—which may include a volume editor\, student editor\, tech editor for online formatting\, and copyeditor for typesetting—to assist in publishing its annual volume\, including providing substantive contributions such as reading and copyediting draft submissions;\nmanaging the Islamic Law Blog\, which includes coordinating with the Guest Blog Editor\, with Research Fellows\, and with outside authors to ensure the timely publication of guest blog essays\, editing and copyediting these submissions\, and curating and publishing weekly news and scholarship roundups plus other essays as PIL may deem necessary;\ncoordinating with the Editor-in-Chief and PIL staff to organize the annual Islamic Law Blog Roundtable\, including editing and copyediting submissions for the Roundtable;\nconducting outreach for PIL\, including by liaising with potential authors for the HUP Islamic Law series and for other PIL publications\, including the Blog and the Journal;\npromoting PIL and its activities through presentations and other events\, as needed; and\ncollaborating with the outgoing Managing Editor to ensure a seamless transition and continuity in operations.\n\nStrong candidates will possess a stellar editing record\, familiarity with multiple citations styles (including Chicago and Bluebook)\, experiencing serving on a journal as student or a degree in law (JD preferred) and/or an advanced degree in Islamic\, Middle Eastern\, or related studies. The application deadline is April 30\, 2025. All submissions must be made via Formstack using the submission link here. The application should include: \n\na resume; and\na statement of interest (maximum 500 words)\, highlighting your interest and relevant experience in either or both Islamic law and editing and managerial responsibilities.\n\nSalary will be commensurate with experience. Remote or hybrid work may be possible in some circumstances. This position is a 14-hour temporary\, non-benefits-eligible position. \nFor any questions\, please contact ctecimer@law.harvard.edu. \n  URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/call-for-managing-editor-program-in-islamic-law-2025-2026/ CATEGORIES:Applications,Due dates,Fellowships,Harvard Events,Opportunities END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250501 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250502 DTSTAMP:20260504T170106 CREATED:20250309T030419Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250501T233732Z UID:10001744-1746057600-1746143999@pil.law.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Grant: MESA Global Academy 2025 – 2026 Application\, May 1\, 2025 DESCRIPTION:From MESA: \nThe MESA Global Academy offers scholars of the Middle East from the MENA region who are currently displaced the chance to join the strongest network of Middle East Studies scholars in North America\, with professional development opportunities and a research grant. \nEligibility criteria for the fellowships are: 1) holding a PhD or equivalent in a field in the social sciences or humanities (graduate students will not be considered); 2) the primary institutional affiliation was in the MENA region prior to displacement; and 3) a publication record indicating scholarly productivity (in English\, French\, a native MENA language\, or principal research language of the field). \nThe deadline for applications is May 1\, 2025. \nFor more information and to apply\, click here. URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/grant-mesa-global-academy-2025-2026-application-may-1-2025/ CATEGORIES:Applications,Due dates,Grants,Opportunities END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250501 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250502 DTSTAMP:20260504T170106 CREATED:20250313T044901Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250501T233732Z UID:10001746-1746057600-1746143999@pil.law.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Workshop: Parchment\, Paper\, Inks\, and Gold\, The Alwaleed Islamic Studies Program and Harvard Art Museums\, May 1\, 2025 @ 10:00 am – 2:00 pm DESCRIPTION:A Workshop on Parchment\, Paper\, Inks\, and Gold \nThursday\, May 1\, 2025 | 10am-2pm | Art Study Center\, Harvard Art Museums\nPenley Knipe\, Philip and Lynn Straus Senior Conservator of Works of Art on Paper and Head of Paper Lab\, Harvard Art Museums\nDavid Roxburgh\, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Professor of Islamic Art History\, Harvard University \n\nThe workshop on May 1\, 2025\, will look at the materials and techniques of selected Qur’ans made between the 8th and 15th centuries in the collection of the Harvard Art Museums. We will look at the supports (paper and parchment)\, bindings (when applicable)\, inks\, gold\, and polychrome pigments (opaque watercolors) used to create these manuscripts. We will also discuss their development over time and throughout the regions of the Islamic lands. We have paired one reading to complete before the workshop\, Martin Levey’s “Mediaeval Arabic Bookmaking and its Relation to Early Chemistry and Pharmacology\,” which includes a translation of al-Mu’izz ibn Badis’s treatise “Book of the Staff of the Scribes and Implements of the Discerning” (Kitab ‘umdat al-kuttab wa ‘uddat dhawi al-albab) composed c. 1025 CE. \nThis first part of the workshop will take place in the Art Study Center for two hours\, 10:00am-12:00pm. Lunch will then be served. The final segment of the workshop\, 1:00-2:30pm\, will allow time for some of the participants to present a single leaf or single manuscript of their choosing to share with the cohort. This is not restricted to Qur’ans. Objects can be searched through the browse collections page of the Harvard Art Museums’ website. \nParticipation is by application and is limited to 15 graduate students. \nApplications will be accepted until March 31 and applicants will be notified whether they have been admitted by April 14. \nTo apply\, visit the link here. URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/workshop-parchment-paper-inks-and-gold-the-alwaleed-islamic-studies-program-and-harvard-art-museums-may-1-2025-1000-am-200-pm/ CATEGORIES:Applications,conferences and workshops,Due dates,Harvard Events,Opportunities END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250501 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250502 DTSTAMP:20260504T170106 CREATED:20250413T161841Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250501T233732Z UID:10001762-1746057600-1746143999@pil.law.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Prize: Middle East Medievalists (MEM) Book Prize\, May 1\, 2025 DESCRIPTION:From the organizers: \nDear MEM members\, \nThe Board of Directors of Middle East Medievalists (MEM) is pleased to request submissions for its biennial prize for best book on the medieval Middle East (ca. 500-1500 CE). The prize will be awarded at the 2025 annual meeting of the Middle East Studies Association. \nBelow is a list of criteria for the upcoming competition: \n\nBooks published between April 1\, 2023 and March 31\, 2025 are eligible for this year’s prize.\nBooks must be non-fiction scholarly monographs based on original research.  Works not eligible include edited collections and compilations\, proceedings of symposia\, new editions of previously published books\, bibliographies\, dictionaries\, textbooks\, and surveys.  We welcome submissions from scholars working with primary source texts in Arabic\, Persian\, or any other Middle Eastern language\, as well as interdisciplinary studies and studies based on research with documents\, manuscripts\, and material culture.\nAuthors must be current members in good standing of Middle East Medievalists to be considered. To join MEM or renew your membership\, please visit our MEMbership page.\n\nDeadline:  May 1\, 2025 \nTO NOMINATE A BOOK \n\nAuthors or publishers should submit a short letter of nomination (preferably in an e-mail) noting the title\, publisher\, date of publication\, and series (if appropriate) to the Chair of the Selection Committee\, Abigail Balbale (abigail.balbale@nyu.edu) and the Secretary of MEM Jonathan Brack (jonathan.brack@northwestern.edu) by May 1\, 2025. *We recommend including a PDF of the book (if available) when submitting the letter of nomination.*\nSend hard copies of the book to each of the *four* members of the Selection committee\, postmarked by May 15 2025. Addresses are in the attached document. URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/prize-middle-east-medievalists-mem-book-prize-may-1-2025/ CATEGORIES:Due dates,Opportunities,prizes and nominations END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250501 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250504 DTSTAMP:20260504T170106 CREATED:20250202T000723Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250501T233732Z UID:10001717-1746057600-1746316799@pil.law.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Workshop: Annual Comparative Law Work-in-Progress Workshop\, May 1-3\, 2025 (Call for Papers deadline: February 5\, 2025) DESCRIPTION:Annual Comparative Law Work-in-Progress Workshop \nMay 1-3\, 2025 \nAnnouncement and Call for Papers \n Co-Organized and Co-Hosted by \nJacqueline Ross (University of Illinois College of Law) \nKim Lane Scheppele (Princeton University) \nJacques deLisle (University of Pennsylvania Law School)\, and \nAnd co-sponsored by The American Society of Comparative Law \n  \nHosting institution this year:  University of Illinois College of Law  \nWe invite all interested comparative law scholars to consider submitting a paper to the next annual Comparative Law Work-in-Progress Workshop\, which will be hosted by University of Illinois College of Law and held in-person in Champaign-Urbana\, from May 1-3\, 2025. \nInterested authors should submit papers to Jacqueline Ross at jeross1@illinois.edu. Please put “Comparative Law Workshop” in the subject line of your email when submitting.  \nPapers must be submitted by February 5\, 2025. We will inform authors of our decision by March 5\, 2025. \nThe annual workshop is an important forum in which comparative law works in progress can be explored among colleagues in a serious and thorough manner that will be truly helpful to the respective authors. “Work in progress” means scholarship that has reached a stage at which it is substantial enough for serious discussion and critique but that has not yet appeared in print and can still be revised after the workshop\, if it has already been accepted for publication.   Appropriate work for the workshop includes law review articles\, book chapters\, and other similar genres. \nWe ask for only one contribution per author and also ask authors to limit their papers to 15\,000 words (including notes).   If the paper (or book chapter) is longer\, please indicate which 15\,000 word portion they would like to have read and discussed. \nOur objective is not only to provide an opportunity for the discussion of scholarly work but also to create the opportunity for comparative lawyers to get together for two days devoted to talking shop\, both in the sessions and outside. We hope that this will create synergy that fosters more dialogue\, cooperation\, and an increased sense of coherence for the discipline. \nThe participants in the workshop will consist of the paper authors\, designated commentators\, and scholars from the host institutions. The group will be kept small enough to sit around a large table and to allow serious discussion. The authors will not present their papers at the workshop. The papers will be distributed well in advance and every participant is expected to have read all of them before the workshop.   While it may be hard to ensure your own paper is below 15\,000 words\, you will appreciate the word limit when it comes to reading all of the other papers for the workshop. \nEach paper will be introduced and discussed first by two commentators before opening the discussion to the other workshop participants\, who are all expected to be prepared with comments on the circulated (and read) papers. The author of each paper will be given an opportunity to respond and ask questions of his or her own.   Each author whose work is featured in the workshop is expected to comment on the work of the other six authors and to participate in the discussion of their work.  \nThere are no plans to publish a collection of the workshop papers. Paper authors may seek publication if\, and wherever\, they wish. The goal of the workshop is to improve the work before publication. \nThe workshop begins with a Thursday evening reception and dinner on May 1\, runs all day Friday May 2 and ends shortly after lunch on Saturday May 3.   We expect all authors to attend the entire workshop to provide continuity in the discussions. \nThe Workshop is supported by the University of Illinois College of Law and the American Society of Comparative Law.   We will cover the costs of hotels and meals in Champaign-Urbana and some portion of authors’ travel costs\, up to $600 per person\, though with some flexibility to reimburse for more if warranted by cost and distance. URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/workshop-annual-comparative-law-work-in-progress-workshop-may-1-3-2025-call-for-papers-deadline-february-5-2024/ CATEGORIES:Call for papers,conferences and workshops,Due dates,Opportunities END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250502 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250504 DTSTAMP:20260504T170106 CREATED:20250202T000723Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250520T141331Z UID:10001718-1746144000-1746316799@pil.law.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Call for Papers: 39th Annual Middle East History and Theory Conference (MEHAT)\, University of Chicago\, May 2-3\, 2025 (Deadline: January 31\, 2025) DESCRIPTION:From the organizers: \nWe are excited to announce that the 39th Annual Middle East History and Theory Conference (MEHAT) will take place at The University of Chicago on May 2-3\, 2025. \nCall for Papers. We are now accepting proposals for papers and pre-arranged panels from graduate students\, postdocs\, faculty\, and independent scholars. We invite historians\, linguists\, anthropologists\, literary scholars\, sociologists\, musicologists\, scholars of religion\, and political scientists whose work engages with a broad geography\, including but not limited to\, the Mediterranean\, North and West Africa\, and South and Central Asia\, from Late Antiquity and the advent of Islam to the present. Travel support may be available\, please indicate in your application if you would like to be considered for travel support. \nWe particularly encourage submissions related to this year’s organizing theme: “Conceiving Time and Navigating Space: Spatiotemporal Engagements in the Middle East and North Africa ” The range of topics we hope to examine with this theme include\, but are not limited to: \n*   Meditations on Middle Eastern concepts of time and space\, whether connected to religious belief\, cultural practice\, national development\, or other ways of relating to spatial and temporal dimensions \n*   Engagement with speculative fictions\, alternative histories\, or forms of storytelling which shape the relationship between subjects and their temporality or spatiality \n*   Anthropological studies of concepts of time\, spatial organization\, and the way these concepts structure lived experience \n*   Microhistories\, oral history\, or other forms of memory preservation\, particularly  marginalized histories\, or alternative histories from any group \n*   Meditations on the development of national identities\, relationships between citizens and geography\, the alteration of geography through economic development\, colonial intervention\, war and conflict\, and nation building \n*   Imagined geography\, national belonging and the impact of diaspora and exile on such belonging \n*   Geographic surveys of the Middle East\, investigations into the politics of mapmaking and other forms of establishing geographic or environmental connection \n*   Engagement with indigenous literary and intellectual geographies produced in the Middle East and North Africa. Studies of toponymies and their cultural or political legacies in the region.\nAbout the Conference. Since its inception more than three decades ago\, the annual Middle East History and Theory Conference at the University of Chicago has earned a reputation as one of the premier academic gatherings in the field. Capitalizing on its setting at a university with a strong tradition in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies\, MEHAT has established itself as a major forum for emerging scholars across disciplines to share their research with peers\, receive constructive feedback\, and establish fruitful academic relationships. Participants come from North America\, Europe\, and the Middle East\, and they have traditionally included researchers at every stage of their careers. \nKeynote: The keynote speaker of this year’s conference is Professor Brahim El Guabli\, who will give a talk provisionally titled “Saharanism and its Afterlives: Historicizing a Universalizing Desert Imagination.” Brahim El Guabli is associate professor of Arabic studies and comparative literature at Williams College and currently associate professor of comparative thought and literature at Johns Hopkins University. El Guabli specializes in Amazigh\, Arabic\, and Francophone literatures\, but his interdisciplinary scholarship encompasses a variety of fields including memory\, indigeneity\, and environmental studies. El Guabli is the author of Moroccan Other-Archives: History and Citizenship after State Violence (Fordham University Press\, 2023)\, which has received honorable mention by the Middle East Librarians Association and is a finalist for the African Studies Association’s best book award. His second book\, entitled Saharan Imaginations: A History of Saharanism and its Radical Consequences\, is forthcoming with the University of California Press. He is currently completing a third monograph entitled Literature and Indigeneity: Imazighen’s Construction of a Literary Field (University of Michigan Press). Using untapped primary sources in Tamazight\, Darija\, and Arabic\, this book unsettles the current historicization of Tamazghan literature by rewriting the region’s literary history from an Indigenous Amazigh perspective.   El Guabli is co-founder and co-editor of the Amazigh Studies series with Georgetown University Press and of the independent peer-reviewed Tamazgha Studies Journal. \nApplications. Please send submissions electronically to mehat2025@gmail.com\, no later than Friday\, January 31\, 2025. Please include each presenter’s name\, and a brief biographical note including institutional affiliation\, program of study\, or position and attach a 250-word abstract with a tentative title. For pre-arranged panels\, please send a single email with an overall panel description plus individual paper abstracts. The best abstracts will summarize the paper’s topic\, its relationship and contribution to existing scholarship and specific conclusions. If you are unsure about the suitability of your topic\, feel free to email us at the above address. Submissions will be assessed\, and invitations extended by late February 2025. \nSelected papers will be grouped into panels of three or four. Participants should be prepared to deliver a maximum twenty-minute presentation and respond to questions from an assigned discussant as well as conference attendees. Written papers must be circulated to the respondent and fellow members of the panel at least two weeks before the conference. \nA small amount of travel support may be available for a number of presenters without access to institutional funding. Please indicate if you are interested in being considered in your email. \nPlease circulate widely! For questions and accessibility concerns\, please write to mehat2025@gmail.com. You can find additional information\, including last year’s conference program for reference\, on our website. URL:https://pil.law.harvard.edu/event/call-for-papers-39th-annual-middle-east-history-and-theory-conference-mehat-university-of-chicago-may-2-3-2025-deadline-january-31-2025/ CATEGORIES:Call for papers,conferences and workshops END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR