- 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