The African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) invites you to attend our second annual conference to take place on March 24-25, 2017 at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. Through a series of papers, panel sessions,...
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Religious and ethnic discrimination has a significant history in the West from the Inquisition which targeted Muslims and Jews in the Iberian Peninsula to the Chinese Exclusion Act in the US, among others. Islamophobia is...
Recent decades have seen increasing global connectedness and rapid changes in Islamic belief and practice in China, across a sphere characterized by great diversity in histories of transmission, socioeconomic factors, language and life-ways. What insights...
https://islamicstudies.duke.edu/symposium-muslim-african-intellectual-history Please mark your calendars and join us in hosting a number of African scholars on Monday, March 27th, 2:00-5:00 for a small symposium on Muslim African intellectual history. This event is sponsored by the...
https://islamicstudies.duke.edu/islam-and-muslims-media In today's political climate, how are Islam and Muslims portrayed in the media? Duke Islamic Studies Center and the Carnegie Corporation of New York sponsor this in-depth conference featuring insights and commentary from top...
Behind the Veil: Women Fighting Fundamentalism under the Taliban The Intercultural Film Series showcases films from and about a diverse array of communities and cultures. Films in the series are selected based on their ability to...
International Conference Spatial Thought in Islamicate Societies, 1000–1600: The Politics of Genre, Image, and Text Tübingen, 30 March to 1 April 2017 http://www.spatial-thought.uni-tuebingen.de/ Convenors Kurt Franz (Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen) Zayde Antrim (Trinity College, Hartford,...
This annual event is named in honor of Taha Al-Alwani, a leading scholar of Islamic law and philosophy, who passed away last year.This year’s event features two renowned scholars who will address the issue of:...
The Deutsche Orientalistentag (DOT) is the largest professional meeting of Oriental Studies in Germany and one of the most important scholarly Orientalist congresses in the world. The range of disciplines encompasses the Ancient and Modern...