Malika Zeghal (NELC and the Committee on the Study of Religion), mzeghal@fas.harvard.edu
Johannes Makar, jmakar@g.harvard.edu
Armaan Siddiqi, asiddiqi@g.harvard.edu
Unless otherwise noted, all sessions take place from 6:00 - 7:30pm in Barker 114 (room confirmation pending). Kindly email Johanes Makar at jmakar@g.harvard.edu or Armaan Siddiqi at asiddiqi@g.harvard.edu to RSVP and receive a draft of the paper prior to the workshop session.
Fall 2019 Schedule
Speaker: Ari Schriber (PhD Candidate, NELC)
Chapter: Colonial Shari`a in Practice: Inheritance, Paternity, and Slavery in Moroccan Legal Pluralism
October 21 - Session 2 [starting 6:30pm]
Speaker: Caitlyn Olson (PhD Candidate, NELC)
Chapter: Islamic Theology 101: Teaching the Basics in 15th-century Tlemcen
Speaker: Youssef Ben Ismail (PhD Candidate, NELC)
Chapter: Tunisian merchants and the Ottoman fez trade (1600-1800)
Speaker: Rushain Abbasi (PhD Candidate, NELC)
Chapter: The Prophet and the Profane: An Inquiry into the Boundaries of Prophetic Authority
December 2 - Session 5: Prospectus Day
Speaker 1: Myriam Amri (PhD Candidate, Anthropology and CMES)
Prospectus: TBC
Speaker 2: Mitch Bacci (PhD Candidate, History and CMES)
Prospectus: Narcotics and Public Health in the Late Ottoman and Interwar Eastern Mediterranean