Mapping the Landscapes of Islamic Studies at IU Conference
Our biennial Mapping conference took place on October 15, 2016, and featured presentations by six IU doctoral students. The keynote address was delivered by Chase F. Robinson, Distinguished Professor of History, and President, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Professor Robinson's talk was titled: "Religion" in the Year 865. See the conference webpage, which includes a conference program, for more information.
Other Events:
- Sholeh Quinn (UC Merced)
Texts and Manuscripts of the Muslim World Seminar:
"On the Reasons to Write History: An Unpublished Persian Manuscript from Mughal India"
September 21, 2016 - Iranian Studies Working Group
Keith Wilson (IU)
"Rethinking Domestic Explanations of Rivalry Fluctuation: Iran and Its Response to Shocks"
October 12, 2016 - Ruby Lal (Emory)
"The Small Things of History: Archive for Nur Jahan, the Great Mughal"
October 18, 2016 - Noah Salomon (Carleton)
"For Love of the Prophet: The Art of Islamic State-Making in Sudan"
October 27, 2016 - Panel Discussion about Islamophobia: Roots and Repercussions
October 27, 2016
Expert panel of IU faculty and students on the topic of Islamophobia. Short media clips and Q&A sessions will punctuate the panel presentations. Lee A. Feinstein, Dean of the School of Global and International Studies, moderated the discussion. Panelists:
Ron Sela
Director, Islamic Studies Program
Associate Professor, Central Eurasian Studies and International Studies
“The Crisis in Religious Authority in Islam”
Mohamed El Marzouki
Doctoral Student, School of Journalism/Media School
“The Media Origins of Islamophobia”
Nur Amali Ibrahim
Assistant Professor, Religious Studies and International Studies
“‘Good’ and ‘Bad’ Muslims in the Post-9/11 World”
Seema Golestaneh
Assistant Professor, Central Eurasian Studies
“Fatima is Fatima: Misconceptions Surrounding Islam and Gender”
Guadalupe González Diéguez
Assistant Professor, Jewish Studies and Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
“Under the Tents of Ishmael: Diversity in Medieval Islam”
Co-sponsor: Bloomington Against Islamophobia - Rian Thum (Loyola New Orleans)
Yuri Bregel Lecture
"Contemporary Chinese Central Asia in Deep Historical Context"
November 14, 2016 - Iranian Studies Working Group
Alexander Shepard (IU), with John Walbridge (IU) as discussant
"Ali Shariati: Ideologue of the Iranian Revolution"
November 16, 2016 - Radha Pandey
"Islamic-World Papermaking: History & Technique"
November 17, 2016
and
Islamic-World Papermaking Workshop
November 18, 2016 - Nile Green (UCLA)
"The Afghan Discovery of Buddha: Archaeology and Nationalism in Pre-War Afghanistan"
Dececember 2, 2016 - Andy Bratton (Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe [OSCE], Election Monitor)
"Uzbekistan’s Presidential Elections: A Conversation with Andy Bratton"
January 10, 2017 - Paul Losensky (IU)
"How to Get from Minneapolis to Isfahan: Public Space and Public Poetry in the Bridges of Siah Armajani and the Pol-e Khvāju"
January 25, 2017 - Iranian Studies Working Group
Matthew Kuhl (IU)
"Eating Their Kurds and Whey: Turkish-Iranian Relations, 1979-2000"
January 26, 2017 - Steve Raymer (IU)
"Exhibit Opening Lecture: The Middle East: A Photojournalist's Perspective, 1975-2016"
February 10, 2017 - Thomas Burman (Notre Dame)
"Arguing--and Not Arguing--About the Trinity in Southern Europe: Judaism, Islam, and Scholastic Thought"
February 16, 2017 - Iranian Studies Working Group
Narges Nematollahi (IU), with Jamsheed Choksy (IU) as discussant
"A Semantic Analysis of Mood Selection in Complement Clauses in Persian"
February 22, 2017 - Joseph Hellweg (FSU)
"Singing the Hunters' Qur'an: Dozo Music, Literacy, and Apostasy in the Songs of Dramane Coulibaly (Northwestern Côte d'Ivoire)"
February 23, 2017
and
"Image, Word, and Divination: Pebble Augury, Representation, and Literacy in Northwestern Côte d'Ivoire"
February 24, 2017 - "A Horse Walks into a Bar"--An Evening with David Grossman
March 6, 2017 - Iranian Studies Working Group
Kenneth Weber (IU), with Nazif Shahrani (IU) as discussant
"From the Ashes: Khomeini’s Role in the Transition to the Islamic Republic during the Bazaragan Era"
March 22, 2017 - Authority in Islam in Muslim Eurasia: An International Workshop
March 24-25, 2017
Workshop program - Jamal Elias (U Penn)
"'Out of Love for my Mother': Revisiting the Emotional in Sufi Historical Works"
March 25, 2017 - Sandow Birk discusses his American Qur'an as a McKinney Visiting Artist
April 7, 2017 - Christopher Bail (Duke)
"Terrified: How Anti-Muslim Fringe Organizations became Mainstream"
April 11, 2017 - Khaled Abou El Fadl (UCLA)
NELC Danner Lecture:
"Shari‘ah Law: Reasoning with God and the Challenge of the Unreasonable"
April 14, 2017 - Iranian Studies Working Group Lecture:
Pouyan Shahidi Marnani (IU)
"Scientific Instruments as Tools for the Transmission of Knowledge: The Case of a 15th Century Treatise on the Operation of the Musartan Astrolabe"
April 20, 2017 - Brian Edwards (Northwestern)
"Trump, Twitter, Circulation: American Politics as Global Entertainment"
April 20, 2017
Guided Tours of Islamic Art
We hosted free guided tours of Islamic art at both the Lilly Library (9/28/16, 11/9/16, & 3/29/17) and IU's Eskenazi Museum of Art (10/19). The fall 2016 tours were sponsored by Themester 2016: Beauty, an initiative of the IU College of Arts + Sciences.
Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies