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October 2021
Antisemitism And Islamophobia: A Conversation
Register Here Featuring: Ivan Kalmar, professor of anthropology at the University of Toronto, and the Hon. Newton W. Rowell Professor (left) Mehnaz Afridi, professor of religion and director of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Interfaith Education center at Manhattan College (right) This event is sponsored by the Bud Shorstein endowment and the Center for the Global Islamic Studies.
Find out more »February 2023
Queer Companions: Religion, Public Intimacy, and Saintly Affects in Pakistan
This online zoom lecture is organized by Dr. Ali Mian from the Center for Global Islamic Studies at UF. Dr. Omar Kasmani will be talking about his new book which features discussions on gender, queer, Islam, and many other topics in Pakistan. Dr. Omar Kasmani is a research associate at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology at Freie Universität Berlin.
Find out more »Ritual, Power, and Modernity in Muslim South Asia
This online lecture will focus on how some South Asian Muslim thinkers conceptualized core Islamic rituals between the 18th and 20th centuries, presented by professor Muhammad Qasim Zaman from Princeton University.
Find out more »March 2023
Courts of the Saint: Judicial Rulings and Muslim Belonging in India
This online lecture will be held by the Center for Global Islamic Studies at UF, moderated by Dr. Ali Mian. Dr. Anna Bigelow of Stanford University will talk about her research on Islam in South Asia.
Find out more »Restoring Mosques, Preserving History: Memory, Materiality, and Aesthetic Practices in South India
This online lecture will be held by the Center for Global Islamic Studies at UF, moderated by Dr. Ali Mian. Dr. Harini Kumar, a postdoctoral research associate at Princeton University, will talk about her research on mosques in southern India.
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