Dear colleagues,
Welcome back! We have an exciting quarter of presentations and events at the Islamic Studies Workshop. Sessions will take place on alternate Thursdays from 12:00pm-1:30pm in Swift Hall 106 (note the change in location from last quarter) unless otherwise indicated.
If any students or faculty are interested in formally responding to any of these presentations, please get in touch with me at fchubbconfer@uchicago.edu.
For more information, including past events, please visit the Islamic Studies Workshop website.
January 14th: Aamir Bashir (NELC), “Roots of Deobandi Sufism: Shah Wali Allah’s (d. 1762) Influence on Early Deobandi Elders”
January 28th: Timothy Gutmann (Divinity School), “Enforcing Intimacy: Tradition, Mass Education, and the Person Question”
February 11th: Rachel Farrell (CMES), “E’tibar nist: Shi’i Ritual Expression in Contemporary Afghanistan”
February 19th (Friday), 12:00pm-2:00pm: mark your calendars! This will be a special session co-hosted with the Craft of Teaching Program at the Divinity School:
“Syllabus Workshop: Teaching Islamic Studies Across the Institutional Field”
This session is a panel discussion on syllabus design of introductory-level courses in relation to student audience: how do pedagogical approaches to the same material shift in relation to institutional contexts? Lauren Osborne, Mun’im Sirry, and Jawad Qureshi, all doctoral graduates or candidates of the Islamic Studies program at the Divinity School, will share representative syllabi and discuss teaching strategies based on their experiences with graduate and undergraduate students in research universities, religiously affiliated institutions, and liberal arts colleges.
February 25th: 12:00pm, Pick 218: Dr. Marion Katz (New York University), co-sponsored with the Middle East History and Theory Workshop and part of the 2015-16 lecture series on Gender and Sexuality in Middle Eastern History
March 1st (Tuesday), 4:30pm, Cochrane-Woods Art Center room 152: Jessica Mutter (NELC), co-sponsored with the Workshop on Late Antiquity and Byzantium, “Evolving Depictions of Religious Transformation in Eighth-Century Greater Syria”
Hope to see you there!