March 6, 2013, 1:00 PM, Cantor Arts Center (328 Lomita Drive) Sukanya Chakrabarti (Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Theater and Performance Studies, Stanford University) discusses Aisha Khalid’s Kashmiri Shawl from The Jameel Prize: Art Inspired by Islamic Tradition in the Ruth Levison Halperin Gallery. Sukanya Chakrabarti is currently a doctoral candidate student at the Department of [...]

February 14, 5:30 pm, Stanford Humanities Center, Levinthal Hall (424 Santa Teresa) Joshua Landis (University of Oklahoma), “Syria: What’s Next?” In thinking about possible outcomes of the Syrian revolution and civil war, it is helpful to place Syria in the broader context of the Levant states, all of which are deeply divided and weak. This [...]

Monday, January 14, 4:15 pm — 5:45 pm, Encina Hall West, Room 208 Merthan Dündar (Ankara University), “From Panislamism to Greater Asianism: Japanese Empire, Islam, and the Turkic World” Abstract: After the Russian invasion of Kazan Khanate in 1552, Turko-Tatars of the Volga-Ural region became a part of the Russian Empire. Most of the Russian Muslim [...]

January 11, 2013, 2:00 PM, Cantor Arts Center (328 Lomita Drive) Ahoo Najafian (Stanford University) discusses artist Bita Ghezelayagh’s Felt Memories. Ahoo Najafian is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Religious Studies at Stanford University. She has received her B.A. and M.A. in English Literature from the University of Tehran, and her M.A. in Women’s and Gender [...]

February 7, 2013, 5:30 PM, Cantor Arts Center (328 Lomita Drive) Roundtable on Islamic Art Iftikhar Dadi (Cornell University) Nada Shabout (University of North Texas) Taraneh Hemami (Curator & Artist) Although very widely used, the phrase “Islamic art” has been the subject of considerable discussion and negotiation in recent years. In this roundtable, panelists will engage questions that [...]

January 24, 2013, 5:30 PM, Cantor Arts Center (328 Lomita Drive) Rachid Koraïchi (Recipient of the 2011 Jameel Prize), “Eternity is the Absence of Time” Join us for an evening with Rachid Koraïchi, recipient of the 2011 Jameel Prize. Against the backdrop of his award-winning work, The Invisible Masters, Koraïchi will discuss The Path of Roses, a series of installations that [...]

January 11, 2013, 12:15 PM, Building 70, Room 72A1 Religious Studies Colloquium Behnam Sadeghi (Stanford University), “A Model for Decision Making and Exegesis within a Tradition” Behnam Sadeghi anford University) is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies. He specializes in the early centuries of Islamic religion and teaches courses on pre-modern intellectual history. He has done research on [...]

January 30, 2013, 7:00 PM, Tresidder Union, Oak Lounge (459 Lagunita Drive) The U.S. and Iran: War or Diplomacy? Robert Crews (Stanford University) Trita Parsi (National Iranian American Council) Laleh Behbehanian (University of California, Berkeley) Robert Crews (Stanford University)  is Associate Professor of History and Director of the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies at Stanford University. He [...]

February 28,2013, 3:30 PM, Encina Hall West, Room 208 (616 Serra Street) Workshop Series: “Early Modern Publics and Networks” Roundtable on Crisis and Renewal in Late Medieval and Early Modern Islamicate History Evrim Binbas (Royal Holloway University of London) Judith Pfeiffer (University of Oxford) Evrim Binbas (Royal Holloway University of London) is Lecturer in Early Modern Asian Empires [...]

March 7, 2013, 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM, Encina Hall West, Room 208 (616 Serra Street) Islamic Studies Social Please join us for our Islamic Studies social open to students, faculty, and community members. Come meet the program staff and get to know other interested members of the Islamic Studies community. This social will include [...]