Events
Each semester, we host a seminar series that brings academics from universities across the globe to the Ithaca campus. Our speakers provide new and engaging perspectives to the analysis of Muslim societies with knowledge that spans disciplines. Explore some of our past seminars to see who has helped enhance the conversation.
- Finding Money Fast: Muslim Xinjiang in the Financial Crisis of the 1850s
- The Orders and Borders of Global Inequality: Rethinking Migration and Mobilities in the Era of Neoliberalism and Beyond
- Rare Islamic Books in the Olin Library Collection
- Pathway(s) into Jihad? Quranic Education and the Career of Lake Chad Basin Jihadist Militants
- Seduced by God and Man? Framing Religious Conversions and Women’s Desire in Pakistan
Was Anthony the Turk Really a Turk? “Islam” in Dutch New York
Upcoming Events
4:30 pm
Uris Hall, G08
Talk by Alan Mikhail (Chace Family Professor of History, Yale University)
At the turn of the seventeenth century, a Dutch privateer is captured by Muslim pirates and taken to Morocco. To win his freedom, he converts to Islam and begins plying the waters off the Atlantic coast for prizes and booty. He marries…
5:00 pm
A. D. White House, Guerlac room
The final lecture in our "Language and Power in the Middle East and Beyond" series.
Lecture Title: "Translational Justice: The Arabic Novel and the British Archive"
Abstract: Reading conflicting accounts of a single, catastrophically violent event, this talk explores how…
11:00 am
Uris Hall, Terrace
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