The Association for Analytic Learning about Islam and Muslim Societies (AALIMS) presents a workshop and conference on the Political Economy of the Muslim World

Organizing committee: Melani Cammet (Harvard), Asim Khwaja (Harvard), Timur Kuran (Duke), and Tarek Masoud (Harvard)

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In honor of the recent publication of the English edition of The Ottoman Scientific Heritage by Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu, translated by Maryam Patton, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University and the Al-Furqan Islamic Heritage Foundation are hosting a two-day symposium on April 26-27, 2024 at Harvard University.... Read more about The Ottoman Scientific Heritage: Past, Present, and Future

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies is pleased to present

The Longue Durée of Arabic Literature, a conference in celebration of William Granara... Read more about The "Longue Durée" of Arabic Literature, a conference in celebration of William Granara

The WCFIA Project on Shi'ism & Global Affairs presents its

Second International Symposium on Diversity and Unite in Transnational Shi'a Islam

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The Project on Shi'ism and Global Affairs at WCFIA presents

A Symposium on Diversity and Unity in Transnational Shi'ism

An International Symposium on Intra-Shi'a Dialogue & Confessional Diversity within Shi'ism at Harvard University's Weatherhad Center...

The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations (NELC), the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program, and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) present the workshop

The Ascendant Field
Critical Engagements with Ottoman Arabic Literature

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The Center for African Studies, Dept of Anthropology, Dept of History, Center for History & Economics, CMES, DRCLAS, Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, & WCFIA present

Urban Activism: Staking Claims in the 21st Century City
This conference emerges from the shared need to create a collective discourse on how critical urban research and urban political activism are increasingly converging and creating a common field of inquiry and action. It connects scholars in various fields such as planners, geographers, historians, and critical urbanists with activists working on housing rights and the right to urban identity and the city more generally.... Read more about Urban Activism: Staking Claims in the 21st Century City

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents

Rosie Bsheer
Assistant Professor, Department of History, Harvard University

This keynote speech opens the one-day CMES colloquium Mecca: The Lived City.
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The Center for Middle Eastern Studies is pleased to present Mecca: The Lived City, a colloquium examining the ways in which the city of Mecca is imagined, remembered, represented, and visualized from the perspectives of history, literature, landscape architecture, and urban planning.... Read more about Mecca: The Lived City

The Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University presents a conference

Reorganizing the Middle East, 1912-1948... Read more about Reorganizing the Middle East, 1912-1948

The Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program
presents

Thinking Islam Within Religious Studies: Methods, Histories and Futures

Professor William A. Graham retired in July 2018 after a long and distinguished career at Harvard. Please join us for a day-long conference in honor of his career and scholarship.... Read more about Thinking Islam Within Religions Studies: Methods, Histories and Futures

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents

Growing Up in Contemporary Iraq
This one-day symposium will focus on Iraq's youth: what it is like to be one of the 20 million young Iraqis under 30 living in Iraq today.... Read more about Growing Up in Contemporary Iraq

The Aga Khan Program and The Department of Landscape Architecture, Harvard Graduate School of Design and the CMES Arabian Peninsula Studies Series present

AFTER DARK: Nocturnal Landscapes and Public Spaces in the Arabian Peninsula
In the Arabian Peninsula, public spaces are often most used after darkness falls and the temperatures with it. This symposium explores typologies of nocturnal landscapes common in the Peninsula, and similar hot climates. During this interdisciplinary event, we will ask who uses night-time landscapes and public spaces, what activities are peculiar to the night and ultimately, how to design for life after dark?

If you plan to attend this conference, please register here.... Read more about After Dark: Nocturnal Landscapes and Public Spaces in the Arabian Peninsula

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents a conference

On the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the June 1967 War, this event seeks to explore new approaches to understand and rethink this pivotal and transformative moment in the history of the modern Middle East. At stake is the search for new sources that can shed light on the war and its long term repercussions for Arab societies.

Organized by: William Granara, Professor of Arabic, Director, Center for Middle Eastern Studies; and Khaled Fahmy, Shawwaf Visiting Professor in Modern Middle Eastern History; Professor of History, American University of Cairo... Read more about The Naksa Fifty Years Later: New Sources, Questions and Approaches to the ‘67 War