Past Events

Past Events

The ISI provided support for the following events:

March 28, 2008, Center for South Asia Studies Scholarly Lecture Series

"Reflections on 'Islam in South Asia in Practice': Is there a story to tell?"
Barbara Metcalf, professor, Department of History, U-M

Co-sponsor: Department of History

March 20-21, 2008, Workshop
The Accommodation of Muslims in Europe

Todd Shepard, associate professor, Department of History, Johns Hopkins University, associate professor, Department of History, Temple University
"Fighting Racism rather than Colonialism: French Integrationism and Muslim French Citizens from Algeria, 1955-1958"
Discussant: Josh Cole, associate professor, Department of History, U-M
Ian Buruma (Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Distinguished Lecture)
"Sticks & Stones: The Limits of Verbal Violence"
Yasemin Yildiz, assistant professor of German, University of Illinois
"Governing European Subjects: 'Muslim Women' and the Discourse of Tolerance"
Discussant: Rita Chin, assistant professor of history, U-M

Co-sponsor: Center for International & Comparative Studies

March 20, 2008, Lecture
Stick and Stones: The Limits of Verbal Violence

Ian Buruma, Henry R. Luce Professor of Human Rights and Journalism, Bard College

Co-sponsors: Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies; Center for European Studies-European Union Center; Center for International and Comparative Studies; Institute for the Humanities

March 14-15, 2008, Symposium
Modernity, and the Legacy of Musa al-Sadr

Keynote address
Augustus R. Norton, Boston University
"Musa al-Sadr – Reformer in Vengeful Times"

Rula Abisaab, McGill University
"Modern Anxiety: Musa al-Sadr and the Nation-State"
Roy Mottahedeh, Harvard University
"Following the Leader: Taqlid in Contemporary Shi'ite Manuals"
Imam Sayed Mostafa al-Qazwini, Islamic Education Center of Orange County
"Sayed Sadr's Political & Social Impact on the Lebanese Shi'a – Reasons for his Success"
Roschanack Shaery-Eisenlohr, Independent scholar
"Who was Musa Sadr? Multiple Narratives of a Transnational Religious Figure"
Liyakat Takim, University of Denver
"Musa al-Sadr and the Impact of Modernity on Shi'i Jurisprudence"
Max Weiss, Princeton University
"Legacies of Violence in Lebanese Shi'i Historiography"

Panel Discussion with Juan Cole, U-M; Roy Mottahedeh; and Imam Sayed Mostafa al-Qazwini

Co-sponsor: Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies

March 14, 2008, Lecture

"Democracy in Bangladesh: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back"
Ali Riaz, professor of politics and government, Illinois State University

Co-Sponsor: Center for South Asian Studies

March 10, 2008
The Future of Islam

Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd, visiting professor of humanism and Islam, University of Humanistics, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Sherman Jackson, Arthur F. Thurnau professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies, Department of Near Eastern Studies, U-M
Ralph Williams, professor of English Language and Literature, former director of the Program on Studies in Religion, U-M

Co-sponsors: Institute for the Humanities, Center for Middle Eastern & North African Studies

February 20, 2008, CSAS Scholarly Lecture Series

"The Woman in the Accounts (hisab) of Men: Sultan Raziyya and Early Sultanate Society"
Sunil Kumar, Professor of Medieval History, Delhi University

Co-sponsors: Eisenberg Institute of Historical Studies, Department of History, Center for Middle Eastern & North African Studies

January 10, 2008, Lecture

"Cotton and Climate in Early Islamic Iran"
Richard Bulliet, Professor of History, Columbia University's Middle East Institute.

Co-Sponsors: Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, and the Department of History

November 09, 2007, Lecture

"Islamic Cosmopolitanism: Hakim Mohammed Said and the Society for the Promotion of Eastern Medicine"
Joseph Alter, Department of Anthropology, the University of Pittsburgh

Co-sponsor: Center for South Asian Studies

November 1, 2007 - Ann Arbor
November 18, 2007 - Montreal

"Beauty and Love" dance performances

Özgen Felek, Department of Near Eastern Studies, U-M (producer)
Carolina Pahde Mallarino, Department of Dance, U-M (director and choreographer)
Mbala Nkanga, School of Music, Theatre & Dance, U-M (performance advisor)
Walter G. Andrews, Near Eastern Languages and Civilization, University of Washington (content advisor and dramaturge)
Münir-Beken, Ethnomusicology Department, University of California Los Angeles (composer)

Co-sponsors: U-M International Institute, Center for World Performance Studies, Center for Middle Eastern & North African Studies, Department of Near Eastern Studies, and Institute of Turkish Studies

October 19-20, 2007
Islamophobia/Islamophilia: Beyond the Politics of Enemy and Friend
Conference Poster (pdf)
Conference Schedule
Presenter Information
Andrew Shryock, "Islamophobia/Islamophilia: Beyond the Politics of Enemy and Friend," Journal of the International Institute, 15 (1), Fall 2007.