AY 2020-21

2020-2021 Academic Year Events

Frédérick Madore (Ottawa & Florida)
"'Muslim Intellectuals' and 'Francophone Salafis' in West Africa: New Religious Elites?"
October 1, 2020
Ali Karjoo-Ravary (Bucknell)
"The Poet Kings of Islam"
October 15, 2020
Kelly Hammond (Arkansas)
Islam in China Working Group Lecture:
"Cold War Mosque: Asian Geopolitics, the Politicization of Religious Spaces, and the Taipei Mosque"
October 22, 2020
Domenico Ingenito (UCLA), with Paul Losensky (IU) as respondent
"The Visible and the Invisible: The Role of the Internal Senses in Persian Sufi Poetry"
October 28, 2020
Joint Annual Symposium: Islamic Economies
Aisalkyn Botoeva (GWU), "Halal Inequality? Discourses and Practices of the Islamic Economy in Central Asia."
Sufian Zhemukhov (GWU), "Hajj in Russia: State Policy and Industry Management."
Patricia Sloane-White (Delaware), "Corporate Islam: The Modern Malaysian Corporation as a 'Small Islamic State'."
Shariq Siddiqui (IUPUI), Discussant
October 30, 2020
Claire-Marie Hefner (FSU)
"Women on the Digital Double Edge: Islamic Schools, Social Media, and Religious Authority in Indonesia"
November 17, 2020
Alaina Morgan (USC) and Edward E. Curtis, IV (IUPUI)
"Race and Blackness in American Islam"
February 25, 2021
Charles Hirschkind (UC Berkeley)
"The Feeling of History: Islam, Romanticism, and Andalusia"
March 4, 2021
John Bowen (Wash U), with Olivier Roy (EUI, Florence) as respondent
"Proving Halal: Devices, Trust, and Networks"
March 18, 2021
Joshua Freeman (Princeton), with Denise Ho (Yale) as respondent
"Uyghur Intellectuals Under High Maoism"
April 6, 2021
Erin Pettigrew (NYU-Abu Dhabi), with Katherine Wiley (Pacific Lutheran) as respondent
"Sui Generis: Genealogical Claims to the Past and the Transmission of the Islamic Esoteric Sciences in Mauritania"
April 9, 2021
Jonathan Lipman (Mount Holyoke)
Islam in China Working Group Lecture:
"'Zhenzhu’s Deputy': Loyalty and Filiality in The Compass of Islam"
April 23, 2021
Nathan Spannaus (Jyväskylä), with Frank Griffel (Yale) as respondent
"Islamic Epistemology and Authority in an Imperial Context: Abu Nasr Qursawi’s Critique of Taqlid"
April 29, 2021

All events during AY20-21 were hosted online.