AY 2015-16

• John Bowen (Wash U)
  “How Indonesian Islamic Judges Make Decisions”
  September 17, 2015
  Co-sponsors: Southeast Asian and ASEAN Studies Program; Institute for European Studies; ANU-IU Pan Asia Institute; Department of Anthropology; Department of Religious Studies
• Audrey Truschke (Rutgers)
  “Forging an Indian Empire: Mughal Engagements with Sanskrit Texts, Thinkers, and Thought”
  September 17, 2015
  Co-sponsor: Dhar India Studies Program
• John Bowen (Wash U)
  "Why Have Shari’a Councils Developed in Britain and What Do They Do?"
  September 18, 2015
  Co-sponsors: Institute for European Studies; Southeast Asian and ASEAN Studies Program; ANU-IU Pan Asia Institute; Department of Anthropology; Department of Religious Studies
• Sabine Schmidtke (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)
  “An Anonymous Jewish Refutation of Samawʾal al-Maghribī’s (d. 1175) Ifḥām al-yahūd”
  September 29, 2015
  Faculty seminar on texts & manuscripts of the Muslim world; attendance by invitation only.
  Co-sponsor: Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
• Guided Tours of Islamic Art at the Lilly Library
  October 2, 2015; November 18, 2015; February 17, 2016; and April 6, 2016
• Guided Tours of Islamic Art at the IU Art Museum
  October 23, 2015; December 4, 2015; and March 30, 2016
• Mana Kia (Columbia)
  "Adab as Mobility, between Early Modern Iran and India"
  November 12, 2015
  Co-sponsor: Dhar India Studies Program
• Paolo Sartori (Institute of Iranian Studies, Vienna)
  “On the Reconfiguration of Islamic Law in Modern Central Asia”
  November 16, 2015
  Co-sponsors: Inner Asian & Uralic National Resource Center; Department of Central Eurasian Studies
• Kim Hodong (Seoul National University)
  (1) Informal lecture: “How Did the Mongols Run Their Empire? A Survey of Imperial Institutions”
  February 24, 2016
  (2) Formal lecture: “Was ‘Da Yuan’ a Chinese Dynasty? A Mongol Perspective”
  February 24, 2016
  Co-sponsors: Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures; Inner Asian & Uralic National Resource Center
• Chanfi Ahmed (Humboldt U Berlin)
  “Asian & African Scholars in Mecca & Medina”
  February 25, 2016
  Co-sponsor: African Studies Program
• Terje Østebø (Florida)
  “Islamic Reformism as Network of Meaning: The Intellectualist Movement in Ethiopia”
  March 22, 2016
  Co-sponsors: African Studies Program; Department of Religious Studies
• Richard Eaton (Arizona)
  “Theorizing Historical Space in Precolonial India: Sovereignty, Religion, Literary Networks”
  April 21, 2016
  Co-sponsors: Dhar India Studies Program

Other events co-sponsored by the Islamic Studies Program:

• 2015 History Graduate Student Association Paul Lucas Conference
  "On the Move: Exploring Migration, Transformation, and Encounters"
  October 23 & 24, 2015
• Shahzad Bashir (Stanford)
  "Selves and Others in Central Asian Narratives"
  November 11, 2015
  Sinor Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies Bregel Lecture
• 2015 Silk Road Ensemble Fall Season Concert
  "Folk Music from Turkey"
  November 13, 2015
• Elizabeth Shakman Hurd (Northwestern)
  "Beyond Freedom and Violence: Normalizing Religion in the Study of World Politics"
  November 18, 2015
  Department of Religious Studies Lecture
• Morgan Liu (Ohio State)
  “The Shifting Landscape of Uzbek Political Thinking”
  March 2, 2016
  Inner Asian & Uralic National Resource Center Lecture
• 23rd Annual Association of Central Eurasian Students (ACES) Conference
  March 12, 2016
• Central Eurasian Studies Language Expo
  March 24, 2016
  Department of Central Eurasian Studies Event
• Charles Butterworth (Maryland)
  “Between Practice and Theory: Alfarabi’s Political Teaching”
  April 6, 2016
  Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures Danner Lecture
• Workshop on Holistic Approaches to the Study of Early Islam and the Late Antique World
  April 15-17, 2016
  IU Working Group on the Study of the Late Antique and Early Muslim Period Event