The René Wellek Prizes recognize outstanding books in the discipline of comparative literature. Submissions can pertain to any field of comparative literature, but they are expected to cross national, linguistic, geographic or disciplinary borders....
Professor Jennifer Wenzel’s book The Disposition of Nature: Environmental Crisis and World Literature is a Finalist for the 2022 Ecocriticism Book Prize awarded by the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment. 2022 ASLE Book Award Finalists...
Muhsin Al-Musawi has been awarded the 2022 Sheikh Zayed Book Award in the category of Arabic Culture in Other Languages for The Arabian Nights in Contemporary World Cultures: Global Commodification, Translation, and the Culture Industry. The Sheikh Zayed Book Award is...
Wael Hallaq delivered the Inaugural Sir Muhammad Iqbal Lecture at Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford, May 19, 2022. For more information click here: https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/events/ethics-empire-and-wealth-ibn-khaldun-and-modern-state To view...
Professor Wael Hallaq participated in a symposium at Yale Law School. The one-day event, taking place on May 6, addressed Hallaq’s latest critique of modernity and focused in particular on his concept of the New Human.
Deadline Extended-Application due April 30, 2022 Download application here. In 2020, the University Committee on Asia and the Middle East (UCAME) announced the Allison Busch Memorial Language Study Fellowship, to honor the late Allison Busch, Professor of Hindi...
