Events 2005-06

John Bowen, Washington University, St. Louis
(Dunbar-Van Cleve Professor in Arts & Sciences, Department of Anthropology)

Oct. 6 Thursday 8:00 p.m. Lecture
“Justifying Islamic Pluralism: Reflections from Indonesia and France”
Stanford Humanities Center: Levinthal Hall
424 Santa Teresa Street, Stanford

Oct. 7 Friday 12 noon Seminar
“How to study Islam as religion and in society”
Okimoto Room, 3rd Floor, Encina Hall
(East Wing)
616 Serra St., Stanford

Bruce Lawrence, Duke University
(Nancy and Jeffrey Marcus Humanities Professor of Religion)

Oct. 10 Monday 12 noon Seminar
“On the Trail of O.B.L.: analyzing the political rhetoric of Osama Bin Laden’s writings and speeches”
Building 460, Room 126

 

Miriam Cooke, Duke University
(Asian and African Languages and Literature)

Oct. 10 Monday 5-7 p.m. Lecture
“Syrian Cinema and State-Sponsored Dissidence”
Piggott Hall, Building 260, Room 113
(SE outer corner of main quadrangle, on Lasuen Mall)
(Sponsors: Modern Thought and Literature, the Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies, the Media Studies Program, the History Department)
Reception will follow.

 

*Kecia Ali, Brandeis University
(Florence Levy Kay Fellow in Islamic Studies and Women's Studies)

Oct. 17 Monday 8:00p.m. Lecture
“‘Acting on her own behalf’: Women, Marriage, and Legal Personhood in Islamic Law”
Stanford Humanities Center: Levinthal Hall
424 Santa Teresa Street, Stanford

Oct. 18 Tuesday 12 noon Seminar
"Women, Slaves, and Marriage in an Early Hanafi Polemical Text, the Kitab al-Hujjah."
Encina Hall, West Wing. Room 202

 

*Talal Asad, City University of New York, Graduate Center
(Distinguished Professor, Program in Anthropology)

Oct 26 Wednesday 8:00p.m. Lecture
“Connecting Law, Religion and Ethics in the Story of Egyptian Modernization”
Wallenberg Hall, Building 160, Main Quadrangle

 

*Sharon Hutchinson, University of Wisconsin
(Professor, Department of Anthropology)

Nov 2 Wednesday Lecture 8:00 p.m.
“Religion and Geopolitics in Sudan’s Conflicts: Myths and Realities”
Stanford Humanities Center: Levinthal Hall
424 Santa Teresa Street, Stanford

Nov 3 Thursday 4:15-5:45 p.m.
Global Justice Workshop Seminar:
“How an International Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Sudan Inadvertently Contributed to the Perpetuation of Military Violence Against Civilians”
Stanford Humanities Center, Board Room
424 Santa Teresa Street, Stanford

 

Timur Kuran, University of Southern California
( Professor of Economics and Law & King Faisal Professor of Islamic Thought and Culture)

Jan 19 Thursday 8:00 p.m. Lecture
“Economic Underdevelopment of the Middle East: Institutional Causes”
Pigott Hall, Building 260, Room 113
(SE outer corner of main quadrangle, on Lasuen Mall)

 

* = Speakers in the Abbasi Program’s Fall 2005 Lecture and Seminar Series: “MUSLIMS DEBATING DIFFERENCE AND GLOBALIZATION”