PAST EVENTS
Lectures, Seminars and 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... Online Lecture: 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...)
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...
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)
Online Videos of 2008-09 Events:
Please click on the event title to view the video.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)
Lectures, Seminars and Events 2007-2008
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.
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Lectures, Seminars and events 2006-2007:
-Arab Film Festival at Stanford
September 11 & 12.
www.aff.org.
-"Voices of Kurdistan" at the San Francisco World Music Festival.
September 24-October 7.
www.sfworldmusicfestival.org.
-Iranian Book Reading, Let Me Tell You Where I've Been: New Writing by Women of the Iranian Diaspora.
October 11, 4pm, Bender Room, Bing Wing, Green Library.
- Anwar Ibrahim, "Democracy and the Muslim World", sponsored by the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law, and the Southeast Asia Forum at the Walter H.Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center.
October 11, 4:30pm, Bechtel Conference Center.
-Reza Aslan, " Welcome to the Islamic Reformation!"
Author of No god but God: the Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam. Booksigning after the lecture.
October 24, 7:30pm, Kresge Auditorium.
-Daniel Cohn-Bendit, "Europe now: Integration, Society, and Islam in the new Europe", sponsored by the Forum on Contemporary Europe, and the Woods Institute.
November 1, 5:30pm, Bechtel Conference Center.
-Alain Bauer, "Criminal and Terrorist Threats, Evolutions and Ruptures: the French Perspective".
November 27, 5:15pm, Pigott Hall, 260-113.
co-sponsored by the Forum on Contemporary Europe, and the France-Stanford Center for Interdisciplinary Studies.
-Listen to Reza Aslan October 24 lecture on Stanford on iTunes U: http://itunes.stanford.edu/
Go to Heard on Campus -> Visiting Lecturers and Speeches.
-Olivier Roy, "Islam in Europe"
January 23, 7:30pm, Cubberley Auditorium.
co-sponsored by the Forum on Contemporary Europe.
-Olivier Roy, " The Phenomenon of Conversion: from Christianity to Islam, and from Islam to Christianity. A comparison between Salafism and Evangelism".
January 24, noon seminar, location tba.
co-sponsored by the Forum on Contemporary Europe.
-Vali Nasr, "The Shia Revival and Politics of Change in the Middle East".
February 1, 7:30pm, Kresge Auditorium.
-Rajko Grlic, filmmaker, "Karaula" (Border Post)
February 6, 7pm, Cubberley Auditorium.
co-sponsored by the Mediterranean Studies Forum, the Film and Media Studies Program, CREEES and the Forum on Contemporary Europe.
February 07: ISLAM AWARENESS MONTH 2007 presents
“Muslim Women in the Sciences and Engineering”
Despite obstacles, many Muslim women domestically and globally have opted to challenge gender-based discrimination to enter male-dominated fields in the Sciences and Engineering. Join us for a panel featuring three dynamic Muslim women who have excelled in their fields of civil engineering, science research and medicine.
Panelists:
Dina El-Nakhal- Senior Transportation Engineer CalTrans
Dr. Arej Sawani- cardiology, Ellis Hospital & St. Clares Hospital, New York
Ghofrane Benghanem- Biomedical Researcher Merck, 2006 Rensselaer Senior Named One of Top 10 College Women by Glamour Magazine
Venue:
Oak West, Tressider, 2nd Floor
6-8 PM
Sunday, 18th February
-Robert Crews, "From Holy War to Holy Alliance:Islam and the Russian Empire", March 1, 7pm, Pigott Hall, 260-113.
co-sponsored by CREEES, Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, and CEAS, Center for East Asian Studies.
-Congratulations toDavid Siddhartha Patel! Recipient of the 2006 MESA Student Paper Prize for his essay "Islam, Identity and Electoral Coordination in Iraq".
-Shibley Telhami "What Arabs Think and Does it Matter?", March 20, 12:00 pm, Encina East, 3rd Floor, Daniel and Nancy Okimoto Conference Room.
Research seminar co-sponsored by CDDRL, Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law.
http://cddrl.stanford.edu/events/what_arabs_think_and_does_it_matter/
-Zifa-Alua Auezova "Sufism in Central Asia: History and Revival in post-Soviet period ", April 5, 7:30pm, Building 60, Rm 61H.
co-sponsored by the Silk Road Foundation, University of California, Berkeley, Stanford University, Miami University, University of Washington in St Louis, Indiana University.
-April 26th, Katif/Jarrar, at the Stanford Bookstore.
-Rome Rather Than You, by Tariq Teguia, Algerian movie at the San Francisco International Film Festival.
co-sponsored by Mediterranean Studies Forum, and the Forum on Contemporary Europe.
-An evening with Egyptian Director Marwan Hamed.
special screening of his award-winning short film "Lily".
co-sponsored by the Middle East Collection of the Stanford University Libraries.
May 7, 6PM, Building 300-300.
-Yasmina Khadra, "Algeria, Islam and Modernity".
Acclaimed Algerian Author of The Sirens of Baghdad and The Swallows of Kabul.
co-sponsored by Programme Synergie (Service du Livre de l'Ambassade de France et Delegation generale de l'Alliance francaise aux Etats-Unis).
May 8, 4PM, History Department, 200-002 (in FRENCH)
--"The State of Middle East Studies: Knowledge Production in an Age of Empire", co-sponsored by the Cultural and Social Anthropology Middle East Research Group, the Culture Club, the Billie Achilles Fund, MSAN, and the Bechtel International Center.
May 17, 9:30AM-5PM, Assembly Room, Bechtel International Center.
-"Rethinking the Islamic Library: African Archives, Scholars and the Public":
Sean Hanretta, Shamil Jeppie, Rudiger Seesemann, Butch Ware, Abdu Salaam, co-sponsored by the Center for African Studies.
May 15, 2PM-7PM, Bolivar House.
-Behnam Sadeki, "The Qur'an: Quantitative Studies in Style and Chronology".
Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Stanford.
May 17, 7:00PM, Pigott Hall, 260-113.
-Emine Fetvaci, "Eunuch Mehmed Agha and the Patronage of Islamic Art at the Ottoman Empire".
Stanford University.
May 21, 4:30PM, History Bldg, 200-307.
-Listen to Reza Aslan, Vali Nasr, and Olivier Roy's lectures on Stanford on iTunes U: http://itunes.stanford.edu/
Go to Heard on Campus -> Visiting Lecturers and Speeches.
-Art of being Tuareg, Sahara Nomads in a Modern World,
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, free admission, May 30-September 2.
museum.stanford.edu
Lectures and Seminars 2005-2006:
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, StanfordOct. 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, StanfordNov 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”