Events
Each semester, we host a seminar series that brings academics from universities across the globe to the Ithaca campus. Our speakers provide new and engaging perspectives to the analysis of Muslim societies with knowledge that spans disciplines. Explore some of our past seminars to see who has helped enhance the conversation.
- Living in Multiple Boundaries: Migrant Workers in the Arab Gulf
- Islamic Libraries from Spain to India (ca. 900-ca. 1730)
- Terror Capitalism: Producing the 'Terrorist-Worker' in Northwest China
- Navigating Paradigms of Chastity and Sensuality in the Mughal Court
- The Policies of Counter-Radicalization in Europe: Two Case Studies
- Black American Muslims and African Sufi Orders
- Muslim Environmental Ethics as Environmental Justice
Upcoming Events
Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
Comparative Muslim Societies Program
South Asia Program
4:30 pm
Morrill Hall, Room 404
Talk by Dina Siddiqi
In Bangladesh, as elsewhere today, bodies marked Muslim are constitutive sites of feminist and other politics. The figure of the female garment worker – tasked with saving the national economy through her public, visible labor – has emerged as an especially dense site of debate and…
Comparative Muslim Societies Program
Institute for European Studies
4:45 pm
Toboggan Lodge
For the Islamist-nationalist circles in Turkey, the conquest of Istanbul on May 29, 1453 is a significant triumph inherited from the magnificent times of the Ottoman Empire, and believed to denote the founding moment of the Turkish nation. In this research, the Islamist-nationalist rhetoric of the Ottoman conquest…