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.
- Covering Muslims: American Newspapers in Comparative Perspective
- The Architecture of Religious Freedom in China: Notes on the Nationwide Campaign to Sinicize Chinese Mosques
- Speaking across the Ocean: Vakkom Mohammed Maulavi and the Idea of a Public Sphere
- Rare Islamic Books in the Olin Library Collection
- Evicting the Living God: Trans-imperial Islam and the Soviet Union on the Eve of Partition
- Selective Solidarity? ‘Othering’, Islam, and Refugees from Ukraine
Upcoming Events
4:30 pm
White Hall, 106
The Ottoman Eichmann: Mustafa Reşat (Mimaroğlu) and The Technocracy of Genocide
Notorious SS officer Adolf Eichmann took the order he was given to send millions of Jews to death camps and applied it to the letter. Eichmann made sure that every single Jew reached the respective concentration and death camps.…
4:30 pm
Biotechnology Building, G10
Governments engage in transnational repression when they reach across borders to silence dissidents living abroad. Tactics for transnational repression include assassinations, abductions, threats, and direct action against dissidents’ families and friends living within the repressive government’s territory.
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12:15 pm
Uris Hall, G08
Talk by Kathryn Babayan (History, University of Michigan)
This talk spotlights a rant ascribed to a woman from the Bakhtiari tribal group of Lurs living in the vicinity of Isfahan in southwestern Iran. The letter is undated. It finds its way to Isfahan as a collector’s item recorded in several late…
4:30 pm
Uris Hall, G08
Talk by Violeta Moreno-Lax (Professor of Law, Queen Mary University of London and the University of Barcelona)
This paper takes issue with the exclusionary understanding of solidarity underpinning the European Union (EU)’s response to the Ukrainian refugee crisis. Through a detailed examination of the…