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H-Net will be hosting a meet-and-greet at ASEEES in Chicago on Thursday, Nov. 10, 2022, from 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at Miller’s Pub, located around the corner from the Hilton Palmer House. Join us after you have attended the ASEEES opening and toured the exhibition hall. H-Net will provide a selection of appetizers and a limited open bar. We look forward to using this opportunity to meet our editors and subscribers to networks related to East European and Eurasian studies and to talk about how H-Net can support their work.

The special issue for the Journal of Islamic Law invites papers that explore encounters between Islamic law and other legal traditions from the 18th through mid-20th centuries. Scholarship on encounters mostly focuses on colonial history, presenting a defeating view of shari’a, seen as having “died” against the intruding forces of colonialism. Indeed, European colonialism greatly affected the operation of Islamic law. Colonial officials, targeting the ulema and the courts, transformed the foundational practices and institutions on which the Islamic legal tradition rested.

I want to make sure this event is on your radar and you have plenty of time to share with friends, colleagues, students, family, and anyone who might possibly be interested. It will be an important event with colleagues speaking from the Center for Urban History in Lviv, Ukraine, about their experiences documenting the war.

You are invited to the Symposium “(Il)liberal Nation Projection Through Sport, Culture, Entertainment, and International Broadcasting”.

Date: 20 and 21 October 2022