Events 2007-08

Sept. 24. Gilles Dorronsoro, Author of Revolution Unending: Afghanistan, 1979 to the Present, Political Science, Paris I, Pantheon-Sorbonne, "How the War in Afghanistan was lost" .

October 15. Roxanne Varzi, Anthropology, UC Irvine, "Framing the Iran-Iraq War: the role of film in the making and mourning of martyrs" Pigott Hall, 260-113.

October 18-28. 11th Annual Arab Film Festival. San Francisco-Berkeley-San Jose-Los Angeles. www.aff.org

October 22, 6pm. Orhan Pamuk, Author and Nobel Prize Laurete in Literature, Memorial Auditorium.

November 2, 11am. Panel on Muslims in America and Religious Tolerance at the Conference on "Embracing Diversity: Making and Unmaking Race, Ethnicity and Difference in the 21st Century". Annenberg Auditorium
Participants: Bruce Lawrence (Duke University), Amina Wadud (Starr King School), Khaled Abou El Fadl (UCLA Law)
Moderator Robert Gregg, Stanford University

November 14, noon. Gilles Kepel, Political Science, Institute of Political Studies, Paris, "Muslims in Europe", Goldman Conference Room, 4th floor, Encina Hall East.

November 8, noon. Lisa Blaydes, Political Science, Stanford University, "The Political Economy of Women's Support for Fundamentalist Islam ", Encina Hall West, 208.

-January 10, 6pm:
Stephen Braun, "Merchant of Death: money, guns, planes and the man who makes war possible"
Author and Pulitzer-Prize winning correspondent for the Los Angeles Times,
co-sponsored by the Ford Dorsey Program in International Policy Studies, the Forum on Contemporary Europe and Creees, Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies.
Pigott Hall, 260-113.
Public lecture and book signing.

-CANCELLATION: January 14, 4:15pm:
Burcu Akan Ellis, "Shadow Genealogies Now and Then: Urban Muslim Identity in Macedonia "
co-sponsored by the the Forum on Contemporary Europe and Creees, Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies.
Assistant Professor of International Relations,
San Francisco State University.
Online RSVP required by 01/13, 5pm at: fce.stanford.edu

January 24, Lucy Thairu, Postdoctoral Fellow, Infectious Diseases, Stanford University, Visiting Scholar, Center for African Studies, "Child Health and Islam in Africa " ( Co-sponsored by the Center for African Studies)

February 11, 7pm. Adeeb Khalid, History, Carleton College, "Between Reform and Revolution: Islamic Debates in Early Soviet Central Asia", Pigott Hall, 260-113.

-Islamic Awareness Series 2008: "Our Jihad to Reform: the Struggle to define our faith" organized by ISSU and MSAN and co-sponsored by the Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies, VPSA, FSI, Stanford Law School, Religious Studies, Feminist Studies Program, Office of Religious Life, Women's Center.

January 31: Khaled Abou El Fadl, UCLA

February 7: John Esposito, Georgetown University

February 10: Sherman Jackson, University of Michigan

February 24: Hina Azam, University of Texas at Austin

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February 21: PSA presents: Tales of an Iranian Humorist, Firoozeh Dumas.

February 26, 5:15pm. Barbara Metcalf, History, University of Michigan, "Reflections on Islam in South Asia in Practice: Is there a story to tell? " Pigott Hall, 260-113.

-February 28, Michael McFaul, Hicham Benabdallah, Political Science, CDDRL, Stanford University, "Morocco's Elections: the limits of limited reforms", Oksenberg Room, Encina Hall.

-February 28, 4:30pm:
Sheila Canby , "Sufis, Shi'ites and Shahs. The Great Shrines of Iran, 1500-1650 "
Curator of Islamic Art and Antiquities, The British Museum, London.
Room Art4, Cummings Art Building.
Co-sponsored by the Art and Art History Department, and His Highness Prince Aga Khan Shia Imami Ismaili Council for the Western United States.

-March 12, 6pm:
The Mugham, Music of Azeri Islam:
A concert performance by Faik Ibragim ogly Chelebi
Professor of Music, Russian Institute for the History of the Arts, St Petersburg.
Co-sponsored by CREEES, the Department of Music, and the Silk Road Foundation.
Campbell Recital Hall, Braun Music Center.

-March 13, 7:30pm:
Faik Ibragim ogly Chelebi, "Between Iran and Turkey: Classical Music of Azeri Islam".
A lecture-demonstration with 11-string tar of Azeri mugham, a version of Iranian classical cycle dastgah.
Professor of Music, Russian Institute for the History of the Arts, St Petersburg.
Co-sponsored by the Silk Road Foundation, Stanford Center for Buddhist Studies, CEAS and CREEES.
Main Quad, Building 200-203.

-March 18, 6pm:
Marc Baer,"Honored by the Glory of Islam: Religious Change in the Ottoman Empire in the 17th Century".
History, UC Irvine
History Building, Room 307
Co-sponsored by the Mediterranean Studies Forum.

-April 16, 7pm:
An evening with Mohsin Hamid, author of Moth Smoke and The Reluctant Fundamentalist.
Cubberley Auditorium.

-April 23, 6pm:
Pedro Machado , "Threads that Bind: South Asia, Africa, and Cloth Zones of Contact in the Indian Ocean in the 18th and 19th Centuries "
History, Santa Clara University
Pigott Hall, 260-113.

-April 28-May 1: Robert W. Hefner.

"CIVIL ISLAM: Beyond the Headlines"

A lecture and three seminars by Robert W. Hefner, 2008 NUS-Stanford Lee Kong Chian Distinguished Fellow, and Prof. of Anthropology, Boston University.

-April 28, 6:15pm: Reception and Opening Lecture at
7pm: "Civil Islam Revisited: Prospects and Meanings of Muslim Democracy".

-April 29, 4:30pm: "Varieties of Islamism: From Radical to Democratic".

-April 30, 4:30pm: "Schooling Islam: Madrasas and the Remaking of Muslim Modernity ".

-May 1, 4:30pm: "Muslim Politics in Southeast Asia: A Democratic Islam Hijacked? Or Re-invigorated? ".

Seminar co-sponsored by the Humanities Center, and the Southeast Asia Forum in the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center.
All sessions will be held in the Humanities Center, 424 Santa Teresa Street, Stanford University.

Please RSVP at:
http://aparc.stanford.edu/events/civil_islam_revisited/. 

-CANCELLED: May 5, 5:15pm:
Nabiha Jerad , "Islam and Gender in Tunisia "
Maghribi Studies, University of Tunis.
Pigott Hall, 260-113.

-May 8, 5:15pm:
Agnes Devictor , "Cinema and the Public Policy of Islamization of Films in the Islamic Republic of Iran, and Answers of Film Directors (1979-1997) "
Film Studies, University of Avignon et des Pays de Vaucluse, France
Pigott Hall, 260-113.

-May 9-13, Mediterranean Film Festival:

May 9, 7pm: 2007 Venice International Film Festival Award-Winner The Secret of the Grain
(France-Tunisia) Dir. Abdellatif Kechiche
with Jean-Michel Frodon, editor-in-chief, Cahiers du Cinema in attendance!

May 12, 7pm: The Trap
dir. Srdan Golubovic (Serbia)
with filmmaker and film scholar Rajko Grlic in attendance!

May 13, 7pm: 2007 Cannes International Film Festival Award-Winner The Edge of Heaven
Dir. Fatih Akin (Germany-Turkey).
Cubberly Auditorium.

Mediterranean Film Festival co-sponsored by Mediterranean Studies Forum, the Art and Art History Department, and the Forum on Contemporary Europe.

-May 15, Islamic Studies Workshop, 6:15pm:
Sean Hanretta , "Kaffir' Renner's Conversion: the Politics of Self-Invention and the Limits to Being Muslim in Public"
History, Stanford University.
Encina Hall, Room 202.
Co-sponsored by African Studies.

-May 27, 5:15pm:
Ghislaine Lydon , "Contracting Trust: Literacy, Islamic Law and the Organization of Trade in 19th Century Sahara"
History, UCLA
Pigott Hall, 260-113.

-May 29, Islamic Studies Workshop, noon:
Vincent Barletta , "Portugal's Muslim Empire: Converts, Scribes and Collaborators "
Iberian Studies , Stanford University.
Encina Hall, Room 208.