Required Registration Link: Muslim Journeys: An Early Modern Anglo-Muslim Archive: Cross-Cultural Encounters and Identity Formations - LibCal - Michigan State University Libraries
An Early Modern Anglo-Muslim Archive: Cross-Cultural Encounters and Identity Formations from the MSU Libraries' Stephen O. Murray and Keelung Hong Special Collections with Professor Jyotsna G. Singh.
Muslim Journeys: An Early Modern Anglo-Muslim Archive: Cross-Cultural Encounters and Identity Formations Online with Professor Jyotsna G. Singh (Department of English) Drawing on selected pre-1800 archival materials from the Stephen O. Murray and Keelung Hong Special Collections at the MSU Libraries, this special online talk and discussion will present the interactions and "translations" between early modern English and Muslim travelers and empires, with a focus on the Ottoman (Turkey) and Mughal empires (India). As the frontiers of geographical knowledge were expanding and changing, so were the cultural, linguistic, religious, and racial/ethnic coordinates by which Europeans (Christians) and Muslims defined their own identities. These changes figure in many cross-cultural "encounters," which reveal the process of confronting "otherness" -- both as real and imagined – and as specters or projections of familiar fears and fantasies. This talk will look afresh at the concept of the "encounter" in the context of Anglo-Muslim interactions, with a thematic emphasis on representations of Islamic cities and cultures from the perspective of English travelers, emissaries, and ambassadors who visited these empires. Selections from the books will be on display via Zoom, presented by Tad Boehmer, Curator of Rare Books. Professor Singh's talk will be followed by facilitated small group discussions.
Free livestream registration at Malcolm X Muslim Studies Community lecture | Zaid Shakir on Livestream
The Inaugural Malcolm X Muslim Studies Community Lecture featuring Zaid Shakir In late January of 1963, Malcolm X delivered a famous speech at the Erickson Kiva entitled "The Race Problem in America." Hybrid format: In person (open to the public) and livestreamed.
Organized by the Muslim Studies Program and cosponsored by the Department of Religious Studies; James Madison College; and Peace and Justice Studies
Register for Ukraine, Russia, and the United States at: msu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_lmw4wN5yRTuxNQvuz0cD-w.
Speaker: William B.Taylor Jr Former United States Ambassador to Ukraine William Brockenbrough Taylor Jr. (born September 14, 1947) is an American diplomat, government official, and former military officer. He served as the 6th United States ambassador to Ukraine from 2006 to 2009 under President Bush and Obama, and as acting ambassador to Ukraine from June 2019 to January 2020 under President Trump. Taylor is a former captain and company commander in the United States Army; he served in the Vietnam War and earned a Bronze Star and an Air Medal with a V device for valor. He proceeded to work in the United States Department of Energy and then the Department of Defense. From 1992 to 2002, Taylor served as a U.S. diplomat in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, Afghanistan, Iraq, and at the Quartet on the Middle East. From 2006 to 2009, Taylor served as the United States ambassador to Ukraine under the Bush and Obama administrations. He continued his diplomatic work in the Middle East from 2011 to 2013.
Co-sponsors: Center for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies; Ukrainian Student Organization
Required Registration Link: msu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYkfu-vrjIjEtO1nKzDNcdX7CBkVGVTy9Hl
All educators are welcome to participate in this interactive discussion. Educators are asked to bring teaching strategies and ideas relevant to teaching about Ukraine.
Panelists:
LATTICE is a learning community and international network that cultivates and supports global perspectives and identities in K-12 classrooms through personal and professional development opportunities.
For more information on LATTICE and future events, please visit the LATTICE website.
Muslim Studies Program 15th Annual Conference
Michigan State University, Hybrid Format (online and in person in Room 303, International Center)
February 24-25, 2022
THEME: "Belonging Nowhere": States of Statelessness and Displacement in the Muslim World
Follow updates here: https://muslimstudies.isp.msu.edu/about/conference/
Register here: https://muslimstudies.isp.msu.edu/about/reg-links
Friday, February 25
9am – 10:15am EST Panel 4: TRAUMA, STATELESSNESS AND MENTAL HEALTH
* Farha Abbasi (MSU)
* Omar Reda (ind. psychiatrist)
* Hadia Zarzour (ind. professional counselor)
Discussant: Farha Abbasi (MSU)
10:30 – 12pm EST Panel 5: REGIMES OF BELONGING: PART 2
* Ashley Walters (U. Connecticut): Citizens of Nowhere: Stateless Muslims in the United States
* Zainab Saleh (Haverford U.): The Tale of Homecoming
* Thomas McGee (U. Melbourne): Syria's Changing Statelessness Landscape
* Randa Serhan (Barnard C.):Palestinians in Lebanon: From Refugees, to Stateless, to a State of Indefinite Exception
Discussant: Stephen Gasteyer (MSU)
1:30pm – 2:45pm EST Panel 6: PRACTICES OF ENGAGEMENT AND NEW RELIGIOUS IMAGINARIES
* Basit Kareem Iqbal (McMaster U.): Ghurba and the Vagaries of Re-habilitation
* Hossein Ghazizadeh (Tehran U.): Citizenship and Statelessness in Islamic Jurisprudence with Shiite Recitation: A Case Study of the Jurisprudential and Legal Status of Non-Shiite Muslim Refugees
* Gozde Burcu Ege (U. Washington): Negotiating Charity and Humanitarianism in the Youth Volunteers' Practices
* Jyotsna G. Singh (MSU): "Muslim Citizenship and Belonging in Contemporary India"
Discussant: Waseem El-Rayes (MSU)
2:45pm – 3:45pm: Closing discussion among participants
Organized by the Michigan State University Muslim Studies Program and cosponsored by the African Studies Center; Asian Studies Center; Center for European, Russian, & Eurasian Studies; College of Arts & Letters; Dept of Anthropology; Dept of Religious Studies; Dept of Sociology; Global Studies in the Arts & Humanities; Global Urban Studies Program; James Madison College; and Peace & Justice Studies.
Muslim Studies Program 15th Annual Conference
Michigan State University, Hybrid Format (online and in person in Room 303, International Center)
February 24-25, 2022
THEME: "Belonging Nowhere": States of Statelessness and Displacement in the Muslim World
Follow updates here: https://muslimstudies.isp.msu.edu/about/conference/
Register here: https://muslimstudies.isp.msu.edu/about/reg-links
Thursday, February 24
9am – 9:15am EST Opening Remarks: Steven Hanson, Farha Abbasi, Najib Hourani, Linda Sayed
9:15am – 10:45am EST Panel 1: REGIMES OF BELONGING: PART 1
* Benjamin P Beames (U. Chicago): Stateless by Design: The Shadow Children of Turkey
* Mehrnaz Hashemi (Shahid Beheshti U.): Iran's Legal Regime Concerning Refugees: Shortcomings and Challenges
* Stephanie Nawyn (MSU): Islamic Hospitality and Informalization of Refugee Rights
* Jinan Bastaki (UAE U.): The Right to Return Nowhere: Palestinians in Arab States
Discussant: Najib Hourani (MSU)
11:00am – 12:30pm EST Panel 2: EXPRESSIONS OF DISPLACEMENT
* Aseel Sawalha (Fordham U.): The Hinderances of Making Art at Times of War: Two Cases from Amman
* Riyad Shahjahan (MSU): A Temporal Gaze towards Academic 'Statelessness': Bangladeshi Mobile Scholar Perspectives
* Leila Tarakji (MSU): Reclaiming Home and Humanity in Narratives of Displacement
* Hanan Aly (MSU): The Stateless Other in Literature of the Arab Diaspora
Discussant: Salah Hassan (MSU)
1:15pm – 2:15pm EST KEYNOTE PRESENTATION: ROCHELLE DAVIS (Georgetown U.), "Studying Displacement and
Statelessness in the World Today"
2:30pm – 4:00pm EST Panel 3: DISPLACEMENT AND DAILY LIFE
* Sabah Uddin (Bowie State U.) & Nabila Hijazi (Loyala U. Maryland): Syrian Refugee Women Transcend Time
and Space to Construct "Home"
* Alyssa Miller (German Inst. GA): Kinship and the Affective Politics of Citizenship for Tunisian Returnees
* Marwa Bakabas (MSU): No Space for Birth, No Space for Death
* Michael Perez (U. Memphis): Enduring Statelessness: Ex-Gaza Refugees and the Politics of Ordinary Life
Discussant: Linda Sayed (MSU)
Friday, February 25
9am – 10:15am EST Panel 4: TRAUMA, STATELESSNESS AND MENTAL HEALTH
* Farha Abbasi (MSU)
* Omar Reda (ind. psychiatrist)
* Hadia Zarzour (ind. professional counselor)
Discussant: Farha Abbasi (MSU)
10:30 – 12pm EST Panel 5: REGIMES OF BELONGING: PART 2
* Ashley Walters (U. Connecticut): Citizens of Nowhere: Stateless Muslims in the United States
* Zainab Saleh (Haverford U.): The Tale of Homecoming
* Thomas McGee (U. Melbourne): Syria's Changing Statelessness Landscape
* Randa Serhan (Barnard C.):Palestinians in Lebanon: From Refugees, to Stateless, to a State of Indefinite Exception
Discussant: Stephen Gasteyer (MSU)
1:30pm – 2:45pm EST Panel 6: PRACTICES OF ENGAGEMENT AND NEW RELIGIOUS IMAGINARIES
* Basit Kareem Iqbal (McMaster U.): Ghurba and the Vagaries of Re-habilitation
* Hossein Ghazizadeh (Tehran U.): Citizenship and Statelessness in Islamic Jurisprudence with Shiite Recitation: A Case Study of the Jurisprudential and Legal Status of Non-Shiite Muslim Refugees
* Gozde Burcu Ege (U. Washington): Negotiating Charity and Humanitarianism in the Youth Volunteers' Practices
* Jyotsna G. Singh (MSU): "Muslim Citizenship and Belonging in Contemporary India"
Discussant: Waseem El-Rayes (MSU)
2:45pm – 3:45pm: Closing discussion among participants
Muslim Studies Program 15th Annual Conference
Michigan State University, Hybrid Format (online and in person in Room 303, International Center)
February 24-25, 2022
THEME: "Belonging Nowhere": States of Statelessness and Displacement in the Muslim World
Follow updates here: https://muslimstudies.isp.msu.edu/about/conference/
Register here: https://muslimstudies.isp.msu.edu/about/reg-links
Thursday, February 24
9am – 9:15am EST Opening Remarks: Steven Hanson, Farha Abbasi, Najib Hourani, Linda Sayed
9:15am – 10:45am EST Panel 1: REGIMES OF BELONGING: PART 1
* Benjamin P Beames (U. Chicago): Stateless by Design: The Shadow Children of Turkey
* Mehrnaz Hashemi (Shahid Beheshti U.): Iran's Legal Regime Concerning Refugees: Shortcomings and Challenges
* Stephanie Nawyn (MSU): Islamic Hospitality and Informalization of Refugee Rights
* Jinan Bastaki (UAE U.): The Right to Return Nowhere: Palestinians in Arab States
Discussant: Najib Hourani (MSU)
11:00am – 12:30pm EST Panel 2: EXPRESSIONS OF DISPLACEMENT
* Aseel Sawalha (Fordham U.): The Hinderances of Making Art at Times of War: Two Cases from Amman
* Riyad Shahjahan (MSU): A Temporal Gaze towards Academic 'Statelessness': Bangladeshi Mobile Scholar Perspectives
* Leila Tarakji (MSU): Reclaiming Home and Humanity in Narratives of Displacement
* Hanan Aly (MSU): The Stateless Other in Literature of the Arab Diaspora
Discussant: Salah Hassan (MSU)
1:15pm – 2:15pm EST KEYNOTE PRESENTATION: ROCHELLE DAVIS (Georgetown U.), "Studying Displacement and
Statelessness in the World Today"
2:30pm – 4:00pm EST Panel 3: DISPLACEMENT AND DAILY LIFE
* Sabah Uddin (Bowie State U.) & Nabila Hijazi (Loyala U. Maryland): Syrian Refugee Women Transcend Time
and Space to Construct "Home"
* Alyssa Miller (German Inst. GA): Kinship and the Affective Politics of Citizenship for Tunisian Returnees
* Marwa Bakabas (MSU): No Space for Birth, No Space for Death
* Michael Perez (U. Memphis): Enduring Statelessness: Ex-Gaza Refugees and the Politics of Ordinary Life
Discussant: Linda Sayed (MSU)
Friday, February 25
9am – 10:15am EST Panel 4: TRAUMA, STATELESSNESS AND MENTAL HEALTH
* Farha Abbasi (MSU)
* Omar Reda (ind. psychiatrist)
* Hadia Zarzour (ind. professional counselor)
Discussant: Farha Abbasi (MSU)
10:30 – 12pm EST Panel 5: REGIMES OF BELONGING: PART 2
* Ashley Walters (U. Connecticut): Citizens of Nowhere: Stateless Muslims in the United States
* Zainab Saleh (Haverford U.): The Tale of Homecoming
* Thomas McGee (U. Melbourne): Syria's Changing Statelessness Landscape
* Randa Serhan (Barnard C.):Palestinians in Lebanon: From Refugees, to Stateless, to a State of Indefinite Exception
Discussant: Stephen Gasteyer (MSU)
1:30pm – 2:45pm EST Panel 6: PRACTICES OF ENGAGEMENT AND NEW RELIGIOUS IMAGINARIES
* Basit Kareem Iqbal (McMaster U.): Ghurba and the Vagaries of Re-habilitation
* Hossein Ghazizadeh (Tehran U.): Citizenship and Statelessness in Islamic Jurisprudence with Shiite Recitation: A Case Study of the Jurisprudential and Legal Status of Non-Shiite Muslim Refugees
* Gozde Burcu Ege (U. Washington): Negotiating Charity and Humanitarianism in the Youth Volunteers' Practices
* Jyotsna G. Singh (MSU): "Muslim Citizenship and Belonging in Contemporary India"
Discussant: Waseem El-Rayes (MSU)
2:45pm – 3:45pm: Closing discussion among participants
In recent decades, people living in Southeast Asia have witnessed major shifts from predominantly subsistence agriculture to industrializing economies, with attendant changes in migration, crop production systems, and major infrastructure (roads, dams, industrial estates). This series of four webinars will explore how communities in the region are experiencing the economic, social, and cultural dislocations of these transformations. We will focus on forests, rivers, documentarians and writers, and Imaging Environmental Futures.
Speakers:
Moderator:
Video Recording: youtu.be/GLhMZsANTyo
Co-sponsored by
Speakers:
Micah R. Fisher, Fellow, East-West Center, Research Program
Naw Pe Tha Law, Advocate, Chiang Mai
Courtney Work, Associate Professor, National Chengchi University
Ahmad Dhiaulhaq, Senior Researcher, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature
Moderator
Daniel Ahlquist, Assistant Professor, James Madison College, Michigan State University
Sponsored by the Luce Foundation, East-West Center, MSU Asian Studies Center, UH CSEAS, Chiang Mai University, Center for Chinese Studies UHM
FLAS Fellowships
Global Speaker Program
Asian Studies Center Newsletter
AIFIS-MSU Conference on Indonesian Studies
