AY 2017-18

2017-2018 Academic Year Events

Rajendra M. Abhyankar (IU)
"A Recent Visit to Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria: Understanding Developments on the Ground"
September 7, 2017
WIlliam Maley (Australian National University)
"Afghanistan and the 'War on Terror': A Retrospective Appraisal"
September 11, 2017
and
"Refugees and the Responsibility to Protect"
September 11, 2017
Principal sponsor: Working Group on Forced Migration
Ousseina Alidou (Rutgers)
"Political Shari’a, Women’s Bodies and the Politics of Love in Razinat T. Mohamed’s Novel Habiba (Beloved)"
September 13, 2017
(Talk was from U Mich via Skype; sponsored by DISC)
Eren Tasar (UNC, Chapel Hill)
"Soviet and Muslim: The Institutionalization of Islam in Central Asia"
September 18, 2017
Sylvia Chan-Malik (Rutgers)
"Being Muslims: A Cultural History of Women of Color in American Islam"
September 19, 2017
(Talk was from U Mich via Skype; sponsored by DISC)
Matthew S. Erie (Oxford)
Islam in China Working Group Lecture:
"From the Rules of Taboo to the Taboo of Rules: Chinese Muslims and the Pursuit of Halal Rights"
September 27, 2017
Mohsin Hamid
Dhar India Studies Program's 2017 Bhattacharya Memorial Lecture with author of Exit West; The Reluctant Fundamentalist; etc.
October 12, 2017
Justine Howe (Case Western)
"All-American Islam: Leisure and Parenting in Suburban Chicago"
October 17, 2017
Sponsor: Religious Studies
Matthew Melvin-Koushki (S Carolina)
Texts & Manuscripts of the Muslim World Seminar:
"Occult Science in the Early Modern Persianate World"
October 19, 2017
Moustafa Bayoumi (CUNY)
Consortium for the Study of Religion, Ethics, and Society Lecture:
"How Does it Feel to Be a Problem?: Being Young and Arab in America"
October 19, 2017
and
Consortium for the Study of Religion, Ethics, and Society Lecture:
"This Muslim American Life: Dispatches from the War on Terror"
October 19, 2017
Scott Reese (N Arizona)
"The Qadi Is Not a Judge”: Contesting the Right To Interpret Fiqh Among Imperial Bureaucrats in Colonial Aden"
November 2, 2017
İsenbike Togan (Boğaziçi University)
Yuri Bregel Lecture
“Chinggis Khan’s Policies and Structural Changes in the Tribal World of Inner Asia”
November 13, 2017
Lauren Osborne (Whitman College)
"Hearing and Feeling the Recited Qur'an"
January 23, 2018
Sponsor: Religious Studies
Rano Turaeva (Max Planck)
"Post-Soviet Religious Transformation in Russia: Islam in Russia"
January 24, 2018
Meagan Todd (IU)
"The Political Geography of New Religious Sites in Moscow's Neighborhoods"
January 25, 2018
Sponsor: IU Russian Studies Workshop
Sean Hall (IU), with Marianne Kamp (IU) as discussant
Iranian Studies Working Group Lecture
"Tajikistan, Iran, and the Politics of Friendship"
February 8, 2018
Nur Amali Ibrahim (IU)
"Improvisational Islam: Indonesian Youths in a Time of Possibility"
February 22, 2018
Sponsor: Consortium for the Study of Religion, Ethics, and Society
Lev Hakak (UCLA)
"The Emergence of Hebrew Creativity in Iraq and the Transition to Israel"
February 28, 2018
Art & Architectural History Workshop:
"Making Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Islamic Art and Architecture"
March 1-2, 2018
Co-organized by Margaret Graves (IU), Alex Seggerman (Yale), and Ashley Dimmig (Michigan)
Alexander Shepard (IU), with Seema Golestaneh (IU) as discussant
Iranian Studies Working Group Lecture:
"Re-examining the Cultural Thesis of the Iranian Revolution: Shia Islam, Revolution, and Monarchy"
March 8, 2018
Zvi Ben-Dor Benite (NYU)
Islam in China Working Group Lecture:
"Treason, Prison, and Muslim Cookies: Fresher Perspectives on the History of Islam in China"
March 28, 2018
Hussein Banai (IU)
"Against Liberalism: Islamic Constitutionalist Thought in Modern Iran"
March 30, 2018
Sponsor: Consortium for the Study of Religion, Ethics, and Society
Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi (Illinois)
"Foucault in Iran: Philosophical Contemplations on Historical Possibilities"
April 4, 2018
SeyedAmir Asghari (IU), with John Walbridge (IU) as discussant
Iranian Studies Working Group: Lecture
"Shī'a Salafis? Study of the Maktab-I Tafkīk (School of Separation) and their Opponents in Contemporary Shī'a Seminary"
April 5, 2018
Co-Sponsor: Central Eurasian Studies
Roy Mottahedeh (Harvard)
NELC Danner Lecture:
"Medieval Kashan: Crossroads of Commerce and Culture"
April 12, 2018
Emily Stranger (IU), with Jamsheed Choksy (IU) as discussant
Iranian Studies Working Group Lecture:
"Iran's Foreign Legions: The Formation of the New Islamic Resistance"
April 16, 2018
David Brophy (Sydney)
"Confusing Black and White: Naqshbandi Sufi Affiliations and the Transition to Qing Rule in the Tarim Basin"
April 19, 2018
Rosemary Pennington (Miami U) & Hilary Kahn (IU)
Book Launch: "On Islam: Muslims and the Media"
April 24, 2018
Sponsor: Center for the Study of Global Change