Faculty Presentations

Kristen Stilt, Faculty Director

Academic Year 2019-2020
  • “Ethics and Animal Ethnography,” Wesleyan University, workshop hosted by Professors Lori Gruen and Elan Abrell (May 7–8, 2020).
  • “Halal Animals: Food, Faith, and the Future of Planetary Health,” Harvard Law School, Animal Law & Policy Program Workshop Series (April 7, 2020).
  • “Islamic Conceptions of Animal Rights,” University of Victoria Faculty of Law, Animals & Society Research Initiative Distinguished Lecture Series (March 10, 2020).
  • “Islamic Conceptions of Animal Rights,” Harvard University, Crossroads Emerging Leaders Program (March 6, 2020).
  • “Islamic Conceptions of Animal Rights,” Harvard Law School, Animal Law Society Animal Law Week (February 24, 2020).
  • “Protecting Animals Within and Across Borders: A Discussion with Book Author Charlotte Blattner, Animal Law & Policy Program Visiting Researcher,” Harvard Law School (November 18, 2019).
  • “Islamic Conceptions of Animal Rights,” Cambridge Centre for Animal Rights, Keynote Presentation, European Animal Rights Law Conference (September 14, 2019).
  • “Animals and Religion,” The National Academy of Legal Studies and Research (NALSAR), Hyderabad, India, (July 25, 2019).
Academic Year 2018-2019
  • “Foreign Animals in Middle Eastern Markets,” University of Vienna, Workshop on Animals in the Middle East, June 27-28, 2019.
  • “The Unfulfilled Promise of Halal,” Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, June 2, 2019. • “The Unfulfilled Promise of Halal,” University of California San Diego,” May 7, 2019.
  • “The Unfulfilled Promise of Halal,” University of Illinois Law School Faculty Workshop, May 2, 2019.
  • “Debates about Death,” Harvard Law School, The Bureaucratization of Islam in Southeast Asia Workshop, April 4-5, 2019.
  • “Animals in Comparative Constitutional Law,” The University of Texas School of Law, February 21-22, 2019.
  • “The Unfulfilled Promise of Halal,” McGill Law School, Legal Theory Workshop, February 1, 2019
  • “The Unfulfilled Promise of Halal,” Harvard Law School, Animal Law & Policy Workshop Series, November 27, 2018.
  • “Halal Animals,” Harvard Law School, Animal Grantmakers Conference, October 17, 2018.
  • “The End of the Ritual Bubble,” Harvard Law School, Animal Law & Policy Workshop Series, October 2, 2018.

Salma Waheedi, Executive Director

Academic Year 2023-2024
  • “Arab Women: Achievements and Aspirations,” Institute of Politics, Harvard Kennedy School (April 16, 2024).
  • “The Role of International Courts in the Gaza Conflict, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Harvard Kennedy School (March 28, 2024).
  • “The International Court of Justice and the Question of the Occupation,” Harvard Divinity School (February 15, 2024).
  • “International Advocacy: Engagement with UN Human Rights Mechanisms,” Workshop, Harvard Law School (February 2, 2023).
Academic Year 2021-2022
  • “Islamic Law, Gender, and Family Law Reform,” Harvard Law School (April 15, 2022).

  • “Transforming the Shari’a Discourse: Islamic Feminism and Women’s Rights Advocacy,” Harvard Law School (February 22, 2022).

  • “Violence Against Women: Prohibited by Shari’a, Allowed by Jurisprudence,” Webinar, Jordanian National Commission for Women, Center for Egyptian Women’s Legal Assistance, and Musawah (December 7, 2021).

  • “Incorporating Cultural Humility: Cultivating Context and Respect,” Virtual Conference of the Harvard Teaching and Learning Initiative, Harvard University (September 24, 2021).

Academic Year 2020-2021
  • “Gender-Based Violence in the Laws and Policies of Arab States,” Webinar, Musawah: A Global Movement for Equality and Justice in the Muslim Family (May 27, 2021).
  • “Family Law Reform in Arab Gulf States: Prospects and Challenges,” MENA Muslim Family Law Virtual Workshop, Musawah: A Global Movement for Equality and Justice in the Muslim Family (April 6-8, 2021).
  •  “Dismantling the Master’s House” (Facilitator), Webinar, Global Conference on Muslim Family Law Reform, Musawah: A Global Movement for Equality and Justice in the Muslim Family (November 23-28, 2020).
  •  Islamic Feminism and Women’s Rights Advocacy in the Muslim World,” Webinar, Harvard Law School (October 6, 2020).
  • “Negotiating Shari’a and Women’s Rights Activism: Dilemmas and Strategies,” Webinar, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg (July 2, 2020).
Academic year 2018-2019
  • “Islamic Feminism and the Quest for Gender Equality,” Harvard Law School (April 22, 2019).
  • “The Judge – Film Screening” (Commentator), Center for Arabic Culture at Cambridge, MA (April 12, 2019).
  • “Crimes of Speech: Freedom of Expression and the Law in MENA Countries,” Harvard Law School (April 25, 2019).
  • “Bureaucratizing Gender, Sexuality, and Conversion” (Chair), Bureaucratization of Islam in Southeast Asia Workshop, Harvard Law School (April 4-5, 2019).
  • “International Treaties, Islamic Law, and Muslim Women Rights Advocates’ Search for Common Grounds,” Fletcher School of International Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University (March 8, 2019).
  • “Islamic Judicial Review,” Fletcher School of International Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University (February 1, 2019).
  • “The Constitutional Courts of Arab Gulf Countries,” Workshop on Constitutional Development in Arab Gulf Cooperation Council States, New York University — Abu Dhabi (November 28, 2018).
  • “The Judge – Film Screening and Discussion” (Discussant), Harvard Law School (October 22, 2018).
  • “Disrupting Assumptions: Veil, Divorce, and Women’s Agency in Islam,” Harvard Law School (September 17, 2018).