Mar
10
2021
Black Literary Islam in the Caribbean (Aliyah Khan)
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM, Online
Black Literary Islam in the Caribbean: Autobiographical Writings of Enslaved Sufi West Africans in Colonial Jamaica, and...
Calendar
Upcoming Events
Apr
7
2021
The Khōjā of Tanzania: Discontinuities of a Postcolonial Religious Identity (Iqbal Akhtar)
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM, Online
The Khōjā of Tanzania: Discontinuities of a Postcolonial Religious Identity Join ISITA for a talk by Iqbal Akhtar (relig...
Apr
21
2021
Jihadists of North Africa and the Sahel: Local Politics and Rebel Groups (Alexander Thurston)
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM, Online
Jihadists of North Africa and the Sahel: Local Politics and Rebel Groups Join ISITA for talk by Alexander Thurston (poli...
May
5
2021
Ajami Archives of Muslim Africa: Their Significance in African Studies (Fallou Ngom)
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM, Online
Ajami Archives of Muslim Africa: Their Significance in African Studies Join ISITA for a talk by Fallou Ngom (anthropolog...
May
19
2021
Mosques, Culture Clubs, and Embodied Ritual Debates: Re-making Islam in a New African Diaspora (Michelle Johnson)
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM, Online
Mosques, Culture Clubs, and Embodied Ritual Debates: Re-making Islam in a New African Diaspora Join ISITA for a talk by ...
Past Events
Feb
24
2021
Africanization: The Bridge to Edward Blyden's Final Intellectual Transformation (Harry Nii Koney Odamtten)
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM, Online
Africanization: The Bridge to Edward Blyden's Final Intellectual Transformation Join ISITA for a talk by Harry Nii Koney...
Nov
30
2020
Race and Blackness in Middle East Studies: A MENA Conversation
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, Online
This event is free and open to everyone, but registration is required: bit.ly/race-middle-east-studies Participants Mand...
Nov
17
2020
Slavery, Colonialism, and Race in the Muslim World
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM, Online
The Northwestern University in Qatar Faculty Working Group on Race Invites you to this event in the year-long series Dec...
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...
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,...