Abbasi Events & News 2008-2009

NEWS

Congratulations to 2009 Abbasi Program Student Grant Recipients! more

The Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies offers congratulations to Robert Crews, Assistant Professor of  History, who is named one of the 2009 Carnegie Scholar for his project entitled "Muslims without Borders: Empires, States and Transborder Communities from the Caucasus to the Hindu Kush”. The project seeks to understand how the mobility and interconnectedness of Muslims have intersected with the politics of empires, states, nations, and locales since the early 18th century. His research challenges predominant American frameworks for understanding Muslim identities of an undifferentiated “Muslim world” on one hand, and the nation-state on the other hand.
-- For the announcement on Carnegie Corporation's website, click here
-- For the announcement in the NY Times, click here
-- For an article in the Stanford Daily, click here

ONGOING EVENTS

Islamic Studies Workshops (more ...)
Noon to 1PM, 1st and 3rd Thursdays
Encina Hall West, Room 208

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 Program

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)

PAST EVENTS
For a list of past events, please click here

ONLINE VIDEOS
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February 09, 2009: "Ending Chaos in Afghanistan and Pakistan: A New Direction in U.S. Foreign Policy"
- Ahmed Rashid (Journalist)

April 15, 2009: " 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),

May 13, 2009: "What Do A Billion Muslims Really Think?: The Making of and Findings from the Gallup Poll"
- John Esposito (University Professor, Georgetown University)
-Michael Wolfe (President of Unity Productions Foundation)