News and Events
Sex, Alcohol, and Music: Policing Vice in 19th-Century Shiraz
Dec. 2 | 5-6 pm | Barker Center, Room 133
Farzin Vejdani examines shifting understandings of what constituted the public and the private from criminal cases in 19th-century Shiraz.
Early Shiite Law and the Construction of the Shari’a
Nov. 25 | 1-2:30 pm | WCC 3016
Seminar with Robert Gleave, Professor of Arabic Studies, University of Exeter
Visiting Fellowships 2020-2021
Deadline January 15, 2020
Our Visiting Fellowship application process for the next academic year is now open. We invite scholars and legal practitioners to apply for a resident fellowship.
Pride & Progress Film Festival and Symposium
Oct. 25 | 9 am – 6 pm | Harvard Kennedy School
Pride & Progress: Film Festival and Symposium will highlight human rights filmmakers and activists who are leading the cultural fight against laws that criminalize and discriminate against LGBTQ+ people in the former British colonies.
Human Rights & Participatory Politics in Southeast Asia
Oct. 7 | 12-1 pm | WCC 3016
Catherine Renshaw author of Human Rights and Participatory Politics in Southeast Asia, recounts an extraordinary period of human rights institution-building in Southeast Asia.
Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine
Sept. 24, 2019 | 12-1 pm | WCC 1019
Professor and Human Rights Attorney Noura Erakat and HLS Professor Emeritus Duncan Kennedy discuss Professor Erakat’s new book.
Collecting War Crimes Evidence during Cultural Rescue in Iraq
Sept. 16 | 12-1 pm | WCC 1019
Corine Wegener of the Smithsonian Cultural Rescue Initiative will describe the development of Mosul Museum Project Zero. The project collects evidence of destruction at the museum for use in a possible war crimes trial.
Crimes of Speech: Freedom of Expression in the Middle East
April 25 | 12-1 pm | WCC B015
Deina Abdelkader, Salma Waheedi, and Hamza Sebti use specific case studies to discuss the legal frameworks regulating speech and analyze practical realities of criminalizing critical speech across the region.
Islamic Feminism and the Quest for Gender Equality
April 22 |12-1 pm | WCC 3016
This final workshop in our Gender, Law, and Society Series will explore Islamic feminism and the contributions of feminist scholars challenging patriarchy in the Muslim legal traditions. Speakers Sarah Marsso and Janna Rumminger discuss the pioneering work of Musawah and the frontiers and challenges of the contemporary Islamic feminist discourse and activist work pushing for equality and gender justice.
Dancers in the Rain: Being Queer in Southeast Asia
April 4 | 12-1 pm | WCC 3018
Two short films, Dory and On Friday Noon, tell the stories of queer women and their daily struggles to negotiate their space within their local Southeast Asian communities. A discussion with Michael Peletz, Professor of Anthropology at Emory University, and Rosalia Engchuan, filmmaker and social anthropologist, follows.