Events 2008-2009

Oct  2.  John A. Eilts, Curator, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, Stanford  University Libraries, "What we can do for you·.what you can do for us", Encina Hall West, Room 208

Oct 2.
Middle East Film Series: Emigrant (directed by Yusuf Shahin, Egypt, 1994). (Co-sponsored with the Middle East Collection, SUL-AIR), Building 260 (Pigott Hall), Room 113 more...

Oct 16.
Middle East Film Series: The Willow Tree (directed by Majid Majidi, Iran, 2005). (Co-sponsored with the Middle East Collection, SUL-AIR), Building 260 (Pigott Hall), Room 113 more...

Oct 23. Shahzad Bashir, Professor, Religious Studies. "Pursuing the Secret History of a Hat: Visions and Discourses of a Sixteenth-Century Iranian Sufi", Encina Hall Central, Room 464 more...

October 29. Mystic Iran, The Unseen World directed by Aryana Farshad. James H. Clark Auditorium (318 Campus Drive). Screening to be followed by conversation with director. more...

Oct 30.
Middle East Film Series: Takva (directed by Ozer Kiziltan, Turkey, 2006). (Co-sponsored with the Middle East Collection, SUL-AIR), Building 260 (Pigott Hall), Room 113 more...

Nov 6. Michael Cooperson,  Professor, Near  Eastern Languages, UCLA, "One day their king will return": Arabs, Persians, and the imperial imaginary in early Islam", Humanities Center. more...

Nov 6 .
Middle East Film Series: Wanderers of the Desert (directed by Hacer Khemir, Morocco, 1984). (Co-sponsored with the Middle East Collection, SUL-AIR), Building 260 (Pigott Hall), Room 113 more...

Nov 6 .
Middle East Film Series: Beynelmilel (directed by Muharrem Gulmez and Sirri Sureyya Onder, Turkey, 2006). (Co-sponsored with the Middle East Collection, SUL-AIR), Building 260 (Pigott Hall), Room 113 more...

Nov 20.  Ahmed Alwishah, Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities, “What is God?: An Investigation of the Problem of Divine Attributes in Islamic Theology and Philosophy”, Encina Hall West, Room 208 more...

Dec 2. "Songs and Melodies from Afghanistan: Melodic Instruments in Harmony"
Performance and Lecture with Shafiq Shamel (voice, harmonium) Toryalei Hashemi (tabla) and guest performer on robab.
(Co-sponsored with CREEES , the Stanford Institute for Creativity and the Arts, the Stanford Humanities Center, the Department of Comparative Literature, the Hamid & Christina Moghadam Program in Iranian Studies, and the US Department of Education (Title VI) ).

Jan 7. Middle East Film Series: Destiny (directed by Yusuf Shahin, Egypt, 1997). (Co-sponsored with the Middle East Collection, SUL-AIR), Building 260 (Pigott Hall), Room 113 more...

Jan 22, noon- 1:00 pm. Stéphane Lacroix, Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies, Postdoctoral Fellow. “The Revolutionary Power of Hadith: Nasir al-Din Al-Albani and his Influence on Contemporary Salafism”, Encina Hall West, Room 208 more...

Jan 22 , 7:00 pm. Middle East Film Series: Winter (directed by Rafi Pittz, Iran, 2006), Building 260 (Pigott Hall), Room 113 more...

Feb 5, noon- 1:00 pm. Donald Emmerson , Senior Fellow, Freeman-Spogli Institute. "Debating "Islamism": Pro, Semi-pro, Con, and Why Bother?", Encina Hall West, Room 208 more...

Feb 5, 7:00 pm. Middle East Film Series: "Kader" [Destiny] (directed by Zeki Demirkubuz), Building 260 (Pigott Hall), Room 113 more...

Feb 13 , noon- 1:00 pm. Alnoor Merchant, Curator and Senior Librarian, Institute of Ismaili Studies (London), "Outstanding Patrons, Beautiful Objects: Metaphors for Humanism and Enlightenment in Islamic Art", Cantor Arts Museum, Auditorium. more...

Feb 19, noon- 1:00 pm. Behnam Sadeghi , Professor, Religious Studies."The Traveling Tradition Test: A New Method of Dating Early Muslim Traditions", Encina Hall West, Room 208

Feb 20, noon- 1:30 pm. Fairouz R. Nishanova, Director, Aga Khan Music Initiative, and Prof. Theodore C. Levin, Dartmoith College, Music Department, "Building Cultural Pluralism in Central Asia: The Aga Khan Music Initiative ", Margaret Jacks Hall, Terrace Room (4th Floor). more...

March 4, 5:00 pm- 7:00 pm. Joe Stork, Human Rights Watch, Middle East/North Africa Division, "Religion, Human Rights and Freedom of Belief: Observations from the Experience in Egypt", Building #200, Room 205 more...

March 5, noon- 1:00 pm. Vincent Barletta, Professor, Department of Iberian and Latin American Cultures,
"(Manu)scripting Muslim Practice: The Aljamiado Legend of Alexander the Great", Encina Hall West, Room 208 more...

March 5, 7:00 pm. Middle East Film Series: "Film Hindi" (directed by Mounir Rady), Building 260 (Pigott Hall), Room 113 more...

March 9, 7:30 pm. Ahmed Rashid, Journalist, "Ending Chaos in Afghanistan and Pakistan: A New Direction in U.S. Foreign Policy", Cubberley Auditorium more...
Video of the event is available at http://deimos3.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/Browse/itunes.stanford.edu.1291570892.01291570898.2098414475?i=1933658162

March 12, 5:00- 7:00pm. Faisal Devji, Professor of Humanities, New School for Social Research, and Reader in Modern Indian Studies, Oxford University, "The End of Muslim Universality", History Corner (Building 200), Room 305. more...

March 13, 3:00-5:00 pm. Faisal Devji, Professor of Humanities, New School for Social Research, and Reader in Modern Indian Studies, Oxford University, "Open Discussion on Millitant Islam and Global Politics", History Corner (Building 200), Room 302. OPEN ONLY TO STANFORD AFFILIATES. more...

March 19, 7:00 pm. Middle East Film Series: Mutluluk [Bliss] (directed by Abdullah Oguz), Building 260 (Pigott Hall), Room 113 more...

April 1, noon- 1:00 pm. Nabiha Jerad, Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Tunis. “Women in Islam and the Politics of Gender in North Africa: The Case of Tunisia,” Encina Hall West, Room # 202  (co-sponsored with Center for African Studies)

April 2, noon- 1:00 pm. Abbas Milani, Director of the Moghadam Program in Iranian Studies. "The Shah and Shiism: Contours of A Troubled Relationship," Encina Hall West, Room 208 (more...)

April 2, 7:30 pm. Middle East Film Series: "The Other " (Dir. Yusuf Shahin, Egypt, 1997), Pigott Hall, Rm. 113.

April 5, 8:00pm. Catherine Evans Latta, author of Beirut Summer, and A.J. Racy, performer, composer and Professor of Ethnomusicology, UCLA. “A Beirut Summer: War Poems from a Woman’s Viewpoint, ” The Campbell Recital Hall
(co-sponsored with the Clayman Institute for Gender Research, the Program in Feminist Studies, Bechtel International Center, AMELANG) (more...)

April 8, noon- 1:00 pm. Azim Nanji, Professor of Religious Studies, Stanford University, “Madrasa and Modernity: Reimagining Muslim Childhod in East Africa,” Encina Hall West, Room # 202  (co-sponsored with Center for African Studies) 

April 9th, 2009, 7:00 pm. Ayesha Khan, Director, and Shahzad Bashir, Professor of Religious Studies, Stanford University. Screening of Kashf: The Lifting of the Veil (2008, Pakistan), Cubberley Auditorium (co-sponsored with Center for South Asia and PakUSOnline) (more...)

April 14, noon- 1:30. Abdelwahab Meddeb, Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Paris, X-Nanterre, "The Clash of Interpretations: Readings of the Quran", Okimoto Conference Room, Encina Hall Central, 4th Floor. (more...)

April 15, 7:30 pm. Forum on Charting Change, Challenging Power: Women Leaders in Muslim Contexts
Baroness Kishwer Falkner (The Liberal Democratic Peer in House of Lords, Great Britain)
Dr. Shahida Jaffrey (Founder and Vice Chancellor of Sardar Bahadur Khan Women's University, Quetta, Pakistan)
Prof. Julia Clancy-Smith (Department of History, University of Arizona)
Annenberg Auditorium. (more...)
A video of the event is available at http://deimos3.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/Browse/itunes.stanford.edu.2173815432?i=1612713733

April 16, noon- 1:00 pm. James Elliott Greenberg , Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Sociology, Stanford University. "Islam, Christianity, and Self-Deception: Cognitive Biases in European-American and Middle Eastern Cultural Contexts", Encina Hall West, Room 208 (more...)

April 16, 7:30 pm. Middle East Film Series: The Making Of (Dir. Nouri Bouzid, Tunisia, 2006), Pigott Hall, Rm. 113.

April 17, 7:30 pm. Finbarr Barry Flood, Professor of Art History, New York University. "Between Dystopia and Utopia: Reading the Minaret of Jam", Lane History Corner (Bldg. 200), Rm. 303 (co-sponsored with Silk Road Foundation, Center for East Asian Studies, CREEES)(more...)

April 30th, 7:30 pm. Middle East Film Series: Yumurta (Egg) (Dir. Semih Kaplanoglu, Turkey, 2007), Pigott Hall, Rm. 113 . more...

May 1, 1:00- 2:30 pm. Charles Hirschkind, Professor of Anthropology, UC- Berkeley. "Islamic Counterpublics and the City", Building 200, Rm. 013. (Co-sponsored with the Post-Colonial City Workshop and the Stanford Humanities Center) more..

May 8, 3:15 pm- 5:00 pm. Nadia Abu El-Haj, Professor of Anthropology, Barnard College and Columbia University. "Know Thyself: Genetic Anthropology and the Genealogical Imagination," Building 50, Room 51A more...

May 13, noon- 1:00 pm. Martha Saavedra, Associate Director, Center for African Studies, UC-Berkeley.  “Women, Islam and Sport in Africa,” Encina Hall West, Room # 202
 (Co-Sponsored with Center for African Studies)

May 13, 7:30 pm. "What Do A Billion Muslims Really Think?: The Making of and Findings from the Gallup Poll"
Film Screening and a Discussion Session with
John Esposito, University Professor, Georgetown University
Michael Wolfe, Co-producer and President of Unity Productions Foundation
Annenberg Auditorium, Cummings Art Building. more...
A video of the discussion session is available at http://deimos3.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/Browse/itunes.stanford.edu.2212843983?i=2045096987

May 14, 7:00 pm. An Evening with Sumbul Ali-Karamali. Clark Auditorium (Co-sponsored with Persian Student Association, ISSU, Bechtel International Center) more..

May 14, 7:30 pm. Middle East Film Series: Half Moon (Dir. Bahman Gobadi, Iran, 2007), Pigott Hall, Rm. 113. more...

May 21, noon- 1:00 pm. Lalaie Ameeriar, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Anthropology, Stanford University. "Engendering Islam: Pakistani Women, the Politics of Liberal Multiculturalism and Religious Transformation in Diasporic Toronto ", Encina Hall West, Room 208 more...

May 28, 7:30 pm. Middle East Film Series: "G.O.R.A., a space movie" (Dir. Omer Faruq Sorak, Turkey, 2004), Pigott Hall, Rm. 113. more...

June 1, noon, Alaistair Northedge, Professor of Islamic Archaeology, Université de Paris I, "Samarra of the Caliphs: An Archaeological Survey", Stanford Archaeology Center (Bldg. 500). Co-sponsored with Stanford Archaeology Center. more...

June 5, 6:00 pm, Dr. Mohsen Kadivar, Contemporary Iranian Muslim Thinker and Philosopher; Visiting Professor of Religious Studies, University of Virginia, "The Unjust Could not Be Divine: A Discussion on Compatibility of Islam and Human Rights", James H. Clark Center Auditorium (318 Campus Drive). (Co-sponsored with Persian Student Association) more

July 30-31, 10:30 am- 6:00 pm, The Colloquium on Evidence for the Early History of the Qur'an, Stanford Humanities Center, Board Room. Colloquium Schedule
Participants: SHEILA BLAIR (Boston College & Virginia Commonwealth University), MICHAEL COOK (Princeton University), FRANÇOIS DÉROCHE ( École Pratique des Hautes Études), YASIN DUTTON (University of Cape Town), ASMA HELALI (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), MICHAEL MARX (Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften), LAWRENCE NEES (University of Delaware), CHRISTIAN JULIEN ROBIN (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), NEAL ROBINSON (Sogang University), BEHNAM SADEGHI (Stanford University), DEVIN STEWART (Emory University)