- 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)
Initiative on the Economic, Institutional and Ritual Practices of Muslims in China Lecture:
"From the Rules of Taboo to the Taboo of Rules: Chinese Muslims and the Pursuit of Halal Rights"
September 27, 2017
Co-sponsors: East Asian Languages and Cultures; ANU-IU Pan Asia Institute - Cemalnur Sargut
"Embodying Tasavvuf (Sufism) in Everyday Life"
October 9, 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
Co-sponsor: History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine - 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
Co-sponsors: African Studies Program; Center for the Study of the Middle East - İsenbike Togan (Boğaziçi University)
2017 Bregel Lecture
“Chinggis Khan’s Policies and Structural Changes in the Tribal World of Inner Asia”
November 13, 2017
Co-Sponsors: Central Eurasian Studies; Sinor Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies - 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
Co-Sponsors: Central Eurasian Studies; Near Eastern Languages and Cultures; Russian & East European Institute; Inner Asian & Uralic NRC - 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: "Tajikistan, Iran, and the Politics of Friendship"
February 8, 2018
Co-Sponsor: Central Eurasian Studies - 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
Co-Sponsors: Central Eurasian Studies; Near Eastern Languages and Cultures; Borns Jewish Studies Program; Inner Asian & Uralic NRC - 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: "Re-examining the Cultural Thesis of the Iranian Revolution: Shia Islam, Revolution, and Monarchy"
March 8, 2018
Co-Sponsor: Central Eurasian Studies - Zvi Ben-Dor Benite (NYU)
"Treason, Prison, and Muslim Cookies: Fresher Perspectives on the History of Islam in China"
March 28, 2018
Co-Sponsors: East Asian Studies Center; ANU-IU Pan Asia Institute - Hussein Banai (IU INTL)
"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
Co-Sponsors: Central Eurasian Studies; Center for the Study of the Middle East; Inner Asian & Uralic NRC - SeyedAmir Asghari (IU), with John Walbridge (IU) as discussant
Iranian Studies Working Group: "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
Co-Sponsors: Central Eurasian Studies; Center for the Study of the Middle East; Comparative Literature; Folklore and Ethnomusicology; History; Mathers Museum of World Cultures - Emily Stranger (IU), with Jamsheed Choksy (IU) as discussant
Iranian Studies Working Group: "Iran's Foreign Legions: The Formation of the New Islamic Resistance"
April 16, 2018
Co-Sponsor: Central Eurasian Studies - David Brophy (Sydney)
"Confusing Black and White: Naqshbandi Sufi Affiliations and the Transition to Qing Rule in the Tarim Basin"
April 19, 2018
Co-Sponsor: ANU-IU Pan Asia Institute - 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
Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies