Global cities - Middle Eastern metropoles 2020.
In a context in which China finances the construction of the “new Cairo” and the Abu Dhabi government employ the British architect Foster and Partners to design Masdar city as a global icon of sustainable design, this conference queries the nature of the Islamic and Middle Eastern city in a global context.
“Islamic Perspectives on Organ Donation after Death”
University of St Andrews, Scotland, UK
School of Art History, Salary: £40,792 per annum pro rata, Start: 1 September 2019 or as soon as possible thereafter, Fixed term for 5 months
6th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MEDIA AND POPULAR CULTURE
Organised in partnership with Intellect
A conference honoring the work of Zeynep Çelik (New Jersey Institute of Technology)
The Center for Near Eastern Studies (CNES) at the University of California Los Angeles is pleased to announce that the 2019 Giorgio Levi Della Vida medal for excellence in Islamic studies will be awarded to Zeynep Çelik, distinguished professor of Ottoman history and architecture at the New Jersey Institute of Technology and the Federated Department of History at the NJIT and Rutgers-Newark.
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
DAY 1: Thursday, May 30, 2019
The Southeast Regional Middle East and Islamic Studies Society (SERMEISS) Research Travel Grants and Literature Awards
Part of DIALOGUES 2019: a thought-provoking series of seminars on governance in Muslim contexts
The Institute of Ismaili Studies is pleased to invite you to the lecture Salvation and Destiny in Islam: Sketching Ḥamīd al-Dīn al-Kirmānī’s Views on the qaḍāʾ wa’l-qadar Debate on Monday 13 May 2019 at 5pm (BST) at Aga Khan Centre, London.
The lecture will be delivered by Dr Maria De Cillis, Senior Research Associate, The Institute of Ismaili Studies, London.
