The Arab and Islamic Law Association (GAIR), based in Germany is awarding the GAIR Dissertation Prize

The Arab and Islamic Law Association (GAIR), based in Germany is awarding the GAIR Dissertation Prize, this being the fourth time. The aim is yet again to honor a thesis in the field of Islamic law or law in Arab or Islamic shaped countries, written in English or German. The prize is endowed with €500. The doctoral thesis should have been awarded at least a ‘magna cum laude’ grade between 2023 and 2025. Nominations may be submitted by professors, lecturers, PIs or other academics with relevant expertise and the right for supervision of doctoral thesis at a university. Self-nominations will not be accepted. Further information

Call for Applications: The new Käte Hamburger Kolleg “Rohstoffwelten – Kulturen im Umbruch” now accepts applications for fellowships

For over fifty years, we have known that fossil lifestyles cannot continue. Yet the global shift toward decarbonization is not merely a technological substitution of oil with lithium, coal with hydrogen, combustion engines with batteries. It is a profound civilizational transition, a new Sattelzeit in the sense of Reinhart Koselleck, reshaping how societies imagine, produce, circulate, and live with raw materials. The Käte Hamburger Kolleg „Rohstoffwelten – Kulturen im Umbruch“ takes this epochal transformation as its starting point. Funded by the German Federal Ministry of Research, Technology, and Space (BMFTR), the Käte Hamburger Kolleg is conceived as an international and interdisciplinary research center dedicated to the cultural, political, and social dimensions of global material transformations. Further information