Hi friends! We’re celebrating 60 years (1952-2012)! Throughout the year we’ll be hosting a variety of events. Check the newly released 60th anniversary website.
There will be many, many events over the next 12 months so keep checking!
The Islamic Studies Library is glad to invite you to its first film screening, on Wednesday October 3rd, 2012, 5:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m., in the Octagon room.
Professor Michelle Hartman will present “The time that remains” by Elia Suleiman (2009), and moderate the discussion following the film.
We hope to see you there!
Hi friends! Dr. Khalid Medani was recently interviewed on the CBC. The interview lasts for 10 minutes as Dr. Medani discusses the film ‘Innocence of Muslims’ and the ongoing protests. CBC
The Middle East Center at the University of Pennsylvania is putting out a call for papers on cultural, social, political, economic, and intellectual exchanges between the Ottoman and Persian empires 16th through 20th centuries for a day-long symposium to be held in Friday, 26 April 2013 to be held at the University of Pennsylvania. Championing different expressions of Islam and sharing a long and turbulent border, the Ottoman and Persian empires rivaled each other since the rise of the Safavid state in Persia in the 16th century until the fall of Qajars and the Ottoman dynasties at the turn of the 20th century. This regular contact produced rich historical encounters between the two states.
Traditional historiography had portrayed the Ottoman and Persian histories as a narrative of struggle against European encroachment and attempts at “modernization” that derived inspiration from Europe since the early 19th century. Until recently, such a portrayal had overlooked the rich historical interactions between the two empires, including but not limited to trade, smuggling, pilgrimage (or religious tourism), intellectual exchanges, nomadic border tribes, and expatriate communities that inhabited the Ottoman-Iranian territories.
The symposium hopes to bring together scholars working on issues at the intersection of Ottoman and Persian relations to shift the focus of the debate to the eastern fault line of Middle Eastern history and to shed light on the historical interactions between the two empires, which governed almost the entire Middle East up until the end of World War I. Please submit your abstracts (300 words maximum) by 1 November 2012 . Selected scholars will be contacted in December 2012, and Penn’s Middle East Center will publish the papers presented in the symposium as an edited volume.
Possible topics may include the following:
• Territorial claims and counter-claims
• Ethnic and religious minorities in national boundaries
• Tribal dynamics and religious tensions
• Comparative gender issues
• Cultural and literary nationalism
• Great power rivalries in the 19th century (British, Ottoman, Russian, and Persian ambitions)
• Social and economic consequences of oil
• Trade patterns and economic development
All communication and abstracts should be submitted to this email: iranveturan@gmail.com
| Visit the website at http://www.sas.upenn.edu/mec/ |
Hi friends! On 11 & 12 June, Monday and Tuesday of next week the Institute of Islamic Studies will be hosting a workshop on the acclaimed scholar, Quṭb al-Dīn Shīrāzī . Shīrāzī was an astronomer and physician of the 13th century. A student of Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, Shīrāzī would produce numerous texts. The Encyclopaedia Iranica provides a nice overview of this gifted scholar’s life and a detailed bibliography.
The Institute of Islamic Studies Quṭb al-Dīn Shīrāzī Workshop Program.
Hope to see you there!
McGill University’s Institute of Islamic Studies Student Council (MIISC) will be hosting its second annual Graduate Student Symposium on 27th and 28th of April, 2012. The theme of this year’s symposium is Islamic Studies: Interpretations, Investigations and Iterations.
Last year’s symposium was major success, so don’t miss out on this excellent opportunity to listen, engage, question and meet and greet the scholars of tomorrow.
The Symposium will take place in the PGSS Thomson House of McGill University, located on 3650 McTavish, Montreal H3A 1Y2.
La prochaine conférence publique de la Chaire de recherche du Canada Islam, Pluralisme et Globalisation (UdeM) aura lieu le jeudi 26 avril 2012 de 17h à 19h
Sciences sociales et autoritarisme : le cas des Territoires Occupés Palestiniens par Vincent Romani (Sc. Politique – UQAM)
Résumé
Les sciences sociales dans un espace sans État, sous occupation militaire et en crise politique permanente, constituent un bon indicateur des dynamiques sociales et politiques qui s’y déroulent. Dans un premier temps, j’essaierai de montrer comment et pourquoi des sciences sociales autochtones et autonomes peuvent exister dans les Territoires occupés palestiniens ; dans un second temps, je montrerai en quoi les sciences sociales palestiniennes se rapprochent et se différencient de l’histoire disciplinaire dans d’autres espaces régionaux et mondiaux. L’ensemble de mon propos avance une réflexion sur l’articulation entre savoirs, pouvoirs et société, opportune d’un point de vue comparatif.
Biographie
Politologue et arabisant, j’ai suivi un cursus de science politique jusqu’à la thèse de doctorat à l’Institut de Recherches et d’Études sur le Monde Arabe et Musulman (CNRS) et l’Institut d’Études Politiques (Université Paul Cézanne), à Aix-en-Provence (France). Dans ce cadre et depuis 2000, j’ai vécu huit années en Syrie, Territoires occupés palestiniens et Égypte, et je retourne régulièrement sur ces terrains.
L’enquête de terrain et l’immersion constituent donc mon approche privilégiée et qualitative ; je mobilise pour mes recherches et mes enseignements les disciplines des sciences sociales qui analysent les phénomènes et luttes politiques, sans égards aux vaines frontières disciplinaires.
Mes objets de recherche suivent deux axes, le premier s’intéresse aux sciences sociales dans le Monde arabe, à partir de l’étude des champs universitaires, et de leurs rapports avec les champs du pouvoir, dans des espaces autoritaires. Le second axe s’intéresse à la matérialisation de l’autoritarisme, c’est-à-dire à la violence sous toutes ces formes et sa production, gestion et circulation entre public et privé, politique et civil, local et global.
The Chaire Raoul-Dandurrand en études stratégiques et diplomatiques at UQÀM organizes a symposium on the Arab Spring next Thursday. The full program and registration informations can be found here:
The Lebanese Cultural Center of Montreal will be hosting a three day conference commencing tomorrow evening. The conference will discuss various aspects of Islamic Studies and promises to be an excellent three day event.
The programme is located here: http://cilmontreal.org/fr/.
The Islamic Studies Library cordially invites you to the PhD oral defense of Mr. Mohammad Saani Ibrahim on “The decline of Sufism and the Rise of a “New Islam”: some factors contributing to the policital and social Ascendancy of Wahhabist Islam in Northern Ghana”, on Thursday September 8 2011 at 1 pm, in the Octagon Room.