AY 2018-19

2018-2019 Academic Year Events

- David Atwill (Penn State)
  Islam in China Working Group Lecture:
  "The Paradox of Belonging: Tibetan Muslims and Twentieth Century Tibet"
  September 6, 2018
- "Mass Incarcerations: China's Radical and Dangerous Policies in Xinjiang"
  Panel featuring Rushan Abbas, Darren Byler, Timothy Grose, and Ilshat Hasan Kökböre
  Moderated by Gardner Bovingdon (IU)
  October 19, 2018
- Uyghur Culture Night
  October 20, 2018
- Mohammad Tabaar (Texas A&M)
  "Religious Statecraft: The Politics of Islam in Iran"
  October 25, 2018
- Sana Haroon (University of Massachusetts Boston)
  "On Sacred Ground"
  November 8, 2018
- Wang Jianping (Shanghai Normal University)
  Islam in China Working Group Lecture:
  "The Sinicization of Islam: A New Deployment in the Changing Political Environment"
  November 16, 2018
- Medieval Studies Institute Symposium
  "Jews, Christians, and Muslims: Religion and Belonging in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages"
  January 25-26, 2019
- Ibrahima Thiam, with Joseph L. Underwood (Kent State)
  "Contemporary Concerns on Artmaking in Senegal: A Dialogue"
  February 1, 2019
- "The Uyghur "Re-Education" Camps: What Is Happening and What Can Be Done?"
  Panel featuring Nury Turkel, Louisa Greve, Sean Roberts, and Elise Anderson
  Moderated by Gardner Bovingdon (IU)
  February 18, 2019
- Evrim Binbaş (Bonn)
  Yuri Bregel Lecture
  "Muʿīn al-Dīn Naṭanzī and his Chronicles: New Sources and Perspectives"
  February 21, 2019
- Muslims in Contemporary France
  A symposium featuring: Jennifer Fredette (Ohio University), Jeanette Jouili (Pittsburgh), and Feray Baskin (IU)
  February 25, 2019
- Evrim Binbaş (Bonn)
  Renaissance Studies Lecture
  "Sovereignty as a Work of Art: The Debates on Political Authority in Fifteenth-Century Iran & Central Asia"
  February 28, 2019
- Mauro Nobili (Illinois)
  "Towards a Handbook of West African Arabic Script Styles: Between Paleography and History History"
  March 22, 2019
- Amina Steinfels (Mount Holyoke)
  "Looking for Religion in a Twelfth-Century Compendium of Knowledge"
  March 28, 2019
- Supriya Gandhi (Yale)
  "The Emperor Who Never Was: Mughal Sovereignty in the Seventeenth Century"
  April 4, 2019