May
20
2020
Ajami Archives of Muslim Africa: Their Significance in African Studies (Fallou Ngom)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, Evanston
Join the Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa and the Program of African Studies as we provide lunch and...
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Apr
20
2020
Anthropology Colloquium: Susan F. Hirsch, George Mason University
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Evanston
“Rule of Law vs. Rule of Justice: Comparing Anthropologies of Muslim Law.” This presentation focuses on the challenge of...
Apr
15
2020
Africanization: The Bridge to Edward Blyden's Final Intellectual Transformation (Harry Nii Koney Odamtten)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, Evanston
Join the Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa and the Program of African Studies as we provide lunch and...
Mar
4
2020
Intellectual Networks and Islamic Realization in 18th Century North Africa (Zachary Wright)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, Evanston
Join the Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa and the Program of African Studies as we provide lunch and...
Feb
12
2020
Suburban Islam: Religious and National Belonging in Chicago's Exurbs (Justine Howe)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, Evanston
Join the Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa and the Program of African Studies as we provide lunch and...
Jan
29
2020
What's in the Manuscripts of Timbuktu? (Charles Stewart)
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, Evanston
Join the Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa and the Program of African Studies as we provide lunch and...
Jan
13
2020
Hamza Yusuf Hanson: "College Caravans: The Mauritanian Scholastic Tradition" (talk and Q&A)
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston
Please join us for an evening with one of the Western world's most influential Muslim scholars: Hamza Yusuf Hanson, pre...
Nov
13
2019
Iconic Archive: Timbuktu and its Manuscripts in Public Discourse (Susana Molins Lliteras)
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM, Evanston
Join the Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa (ISITA) and the Program of African Studies as we provide l...
Oct
7
2019
Becoming Shinqiti: Saharan Islamic Scholars and Global Religious Authority (Zekeria Ahmed Salem)
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, Evanston
Zekeria Ahmed Salem is Associate Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University and Director of the Institute...
Jun
3
2019
The Border President: The "Muslim Ban,” National Security, and the Politics of Religion — A Talk by Beth Hurd
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, Evanston
Within one week of becoming president in January 2017, Donald Trump issued an executive order entitled “Protecting the N...
May
22
2019
PAS L+L: Oludamini Ogunnaike - Deep Knowledge: Ways of Knowing in Sufism and Ifa, Two West African Intellectual Traditions
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, Evanston
Oludamini Ogunnaike, Religious Studies, College of William & Mary Deep Knowledge: Ways of Knowing in Sufism and Ifa, Two...
May
15
2019
PAS L+L: Erin Pettigrew - To Invoke the Invisible: Islam, Spiritual Mediation and Social Change in the Sahara
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, Evanston
To Invoke the Invisible: Islam, Spiritual Mediation and Social Change in the Sahara Erin Pettigrew, History and Arab Cro...
May
10
2019
Genealogies of an African Islamic Modernity
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, Evanston
Both discourse and a historical condition defined by the reconciliation of African identities, Islamic forms of life, an...
May
1
2019
PAS L+L: S. Athuman Chembea - Interpreting Muslim-Christian Relations in the Light of Awqaf in Kenya since 1900
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, Evanston
Interpreting Muslim-Christian Relations in the Light of Awqaf in Kenya since 1900 S. Athuman Chembea, Religion, Bomet Un...
Apr
26
2019
Trans-Saharan Exchange and the Global Medieval Symposium
9:30 AM - 7:00 PM, Evanston
Myers Symposium, April 26, 2019Organized by Christina Normore and Kathleen Bickford Berzock Trans-Saharan Exchange and t...
Apr
25
2019
Reporting Islam: Media, Policy, Politics
All day, Evanston
This international symposium will bring scholars of Islam, international and public affairs, education, race, and law to...
Apr
16
2019
Fred Wilson: Afro Kismet
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Evanston
Throughout his career, acclaimed artist Fred Wilson has challenged assumptions of history, culture, race, and museum dis...
Apr
12
2019
Apr
11
2019
Saharan Futures Conference Keynote
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM, Evanston
Keynote Address by Ann McDougall, University of AlbertaShifting Desert Sands: Mobility, Migration and Memory in Sahara...
Apr
3
2019
PAS L+L: Abdourahmane Seck - Producing Senegal: Social Processes and the Study of Islam
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, Evanston
Abdourahmane Seck, ISITA visiting scholar Producing Senegal: Social Processes and the Study of Islam Abstract A rigid c...
Mar
6
2019
PAS L+L: Matt Rarey - Pouches, Archives, and the Art of Survival in the Black Atlantic
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, Evanston
Join the Program of African Studies as we provide lunch and a lecture. Matthew Rarey, PAS Visiting Scholar; Art History,...
Feb
25
2019
Elisha Renne – Nigerian Marriage Advice Booklets, 1962-2009
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, Evanston
Bio: Elisha Renne is professor of anthropology and Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan). Renn...
Feb
25
2019
Rethinking the Sufi-Reformist Divide: Gender, Dress, and Authority (An ISITA Perspectives Symposium)
9:30 AM - 3:00 PM, Evanston
Join the Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa (ISITA) for a dialogue between the authors of two new book...
Feb
19
2019
Revival from Below, The Deoband Movement and Global Islam
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, Evanston
Revival From Below: The Deoband Movement and Global Islam Faculty Book Colloquium presented by Professor Brannon Ingram,...
Feb
13
2019
PAS L+L: Wendell Hassan Marsh - Shaykh Musa Kamara and the Genealogy of an African Islamic Modernity
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, Evanston
Join the Program of African Studies as we provide lunch and a lecture. Wendell Hassan Marsh, Buffett Postdoctoral Fellow...
Jan
28
2019
Why Alliances Fail: Islamist and Leftist Coalitions in North Africa — Evanston Public Library
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Off-Campus
The Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa (ISITA) and the Middle East and North African Studies Program (...
Jan
28
2019
Why Alliances Fail: Islamist and Leftist Coalitions in North Africa
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, Evanston
The Middle East and North African Studies Program (MENA) is pleased to present this program in partnership with the Inst...
Jan
26
2019
Opening Celebration: Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM, Evanston
Journey to a medieval world with Africa at its center. Seeking to dramatically shift how we understand and study the med...
Jan
26
2019
Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time: Art, Culture, and Exchange across Medieval Saharan Africa
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, Evanston
Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time: Art, Culture, and Exchange across Medieval Saharan Africa قوافل من ذهب، شذرات من ال...
Jan
17
2019
Robert Launay: Savages, Romans, and Despots
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, Evanston
Robert Launay presents work from his new book "Savages, Romans, and Despots," a tour of early modern and modern history ...
Nov
26
2018
Screening of "Duniya Juyi Juyi" (How Life Goes)
11:30 AM - 1:15 PM, Evanston
Duniya Juyi Juyi (which means "How Life Goes" in Hausa) is a 69-minute docudrama written, filmed, directed, and acted in...
Nov
26
2018
Educating Muslim Youth in Asia and Africa: An ISITA Perspectives Symposium
9:30 AM - 3:00 PM, Evanston
Join the Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa (ISITA) for a dialogue between the authors of two new book...
Nov
14
2018
The Boko Haram Reader: From Nigerian Preachers to the Islamic State: A Discussion with Co-author Abdulbasit Kassim
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM, Evanston
Join ISITA for a discussion with Abdulbasit Kassim about his new publication, co-edited with Michael Nwankpa, The Boko H...
Nov
12
2018
Irfan Ahmad: Beyond the “Secular/Enlightenment” Frame: Critique as an Everyday Practice among Muslims
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, Evanston
Challenging common views of Islam as hostile to critical thinking, Ahmad delineates thriving traditions of critique in I...
Oct
31
2018
Kimberly Wortmann: Endowments, Wills, and Charitable Societies: Old and New Expressions of Ibadhi Mosque Patronage in Zanzibar
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM, Evanston
Endowments, Wills, and Charitable Societies: Old and New Expressions of Ibadhi Mosque Patronage in Zanzibar A talk by Ki...