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.
- Welcome to Mars: The UAE's Space Colonization Mission, Anticipatory Authoritanism, and the Labor of HopeMuslim in Tang, Song, and Yuan China
- Muslims in Tang, Song, and Yuan China
- A Genealogy of African Islamic Modernity
- Islam in the Estuary of Indonesia: Hamka, History, and the Nation
- Women, Religious Education, and the Transmission of Islamic Knowledge in Kenya
- Farmers, Traders, Slaves, and Princes: Retrieving Lives of Eighteenth Century Inhabitants in and around Colombo, Sri Lanka
- Oil-Gotten Gains: Petrodollars, Abscam, and Arab American Activism, 1973 to 1981
Upcoming Events
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Comparative Muslim Societies Program
Institute for African Development
Institute for European Studies
12:00 pm
Virtual
Panel discussion with filmmaker Giulia Bertoluzzi
Film Overview:
Set primarily in Zarzis, Tunisia, and the waters of the Mediterranean Sea, Strange Fish tells the story of Tunisian fishermen who have been rescuing migrants and recovering the dead along the world's deadliest migration route since…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
Comparative Muslim Societies Program
East Asia Program
Southeast Asia Program
Latin American Studies Program
Institute for African Development
Institute for European Studies
South Asia Program
4:30 pm
Virtual
The Fulbright U.S. Student Program supports college graduates conducting research or teaching in any field in more than 150 countries. Applications are due in the fall; students who wish to begin the program immediately after graduation are encouraged to start the process in their junior year.
United States…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Comparative Muslim Societies Program
East Asia Program
4:30 pm
Virtual
The seminar will introduce some examples of activities and transregional relations of Muslims in Tang, Song, and Yuan China (618-1279 CE). The talk will specifically concentrate of traders and physicians, and also introduce a few of the more important names that we know from this period. The scope of our inquiry…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Comparative Muslim Societies Program
Institute for African Development
4:30 pm
Virtual
African Islamic modernity is a discourse, a historical condition, and a project that highlights the entanglements of African racial identities, Islamic forms of life, and modernity as the globally hegemonic mode of social, economic, and political being. While there are many lineages by which one might trace the…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Comparative Muslim Societies Program
Southeast Asia Program
4:30 pm
Virtual
Although Hamka (Haji Abdul Malik Karim Amrullah, 1908-1981) embraced modernist ideas of purity, he also embraced the idea that Islam manifested itself differently in different places and times. Indeed, this was natural and necessary. As a Indonesian writer of great popularity and authority, and also as an…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies
Comparative Muslim Societies Program
East Asia Program
Southeast Asia Program
Latin American Studies Program
Institute for African Development
Institute for European Studies
South Asia Program
4:30 pm
Virtual
The Fulbright U.S. Student Program supports college graduates conducting research or teaching in any field in more than 150 countries. Applications are due in the fall; students who wish to begin the program immediately after graduation are encouraged to start the process in their junior year.
United States…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Comparative Muslim Societies Program
12:00 pm
Virtual
Film Overview:
Deep in the earth beneath the Arctic permafrost, seeds from all over the world are stored in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault to provide a backup should disaster strike. Wild Relatives starts from an event that has sparked media interest worldwide: in 2012 an international agricultural research…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Comparative Muslim Societies Program
Institute for African Development
12:00 pm
Virtual
In Kenya there exist a chain of women educators in religious knowledge amongst the Muslim community. Due to their level of Islamic knowledge, their instructional role has for a long time been restricted to the traditional chuo (Quranic schools) to teach the reading and memorization of the Quran to children. This…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Comparative Muslim Societies Program
South Asia Program
4:30 pm
Virtual
In this talk I will present the ongoing research project "Colonialism inside out" a Sri Lankan-Dutch research project, which has been running since 2017. The project aims at historical life writing, by combing macro-data from 18th century parish and census registers with qualitative data from legal…
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Comparative Muslim Societies Program
4:30 pm
Virtual
In the 1970s, soaring oil prices provided huge revenues to oil producing Arab countries, which, together with private Arab companies and individuals, invested billions of dollars in the U.S. economy. The influx of Arab petodollars drew mixed reactions from Americans. Some feared that wealthy Arabs were “buying up…