Twice a year in January and June, the CGA offers a two-week intensive training course in geographic information systems (GIS), designed for Harvard graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, faculty, and other researchers who want to learn spatial analysis and apply GIS methods in their research... Read more about Registration is Open for the Winter 2022 GIS Institute

We are excited to announce that the IQSS Computer Labs have re-opened for in-person workstation use.  

- Our hours are Monday - Friday, 9 AM to 5 PM. The lab itself will be physically locked after 5 PM and on Weekends.
- Remote Access will remain available.
- Item checkout is unavailable.
- Currently only our Concourse Lab is open.
- No food OR drinks allowed.
- Appropriately worn Masks are required at all times.
- Access will be for IQSS Lab workstation usage only.

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by Jonathan Colburn

Professor of Law and History Intisar Rabb’s career as a legal scholar began with an enormous obstacle: in the midst of a joint program at Yale Law School for her JD and at Princeton for a PhD, she was interested in comparative issues in Islamic law, or sharī’a. That legal field (much like American law) is a collection of laws, practices, and culturally inflected norms defined by judges... Read more about Digitized Canon: Intisar Rabb's Work to Develop SHARIAsource and Other Resources on Islamic Law

After 15 years of service at Harvard, Mercè Crosas, who has served as Chief Data Science and Technology Officer at IQSS, is departing the University to take a position with the Institutional Government of Catalonia (Catalunya), Spain. As the Secretary of Transparency and Open Government, she will take the helm of a new department focused on open data...