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28 March 2024	15:30	Saud Alsanoussi - The Bamboo Stalk Maqam for Arabic Studies and the Centre for Gulf Studies are delighted to invite you to a special event with the Kuwaiti author, Saud Alsanoussi, around his novel The Bamboo Stalk for which he won the International Prize for Arabic Fiction (2013).. Full details	Add event
20 March 2024	17:00	Dr Annika Schmeding - Sufi Civilities in Afghanistan – a Book Talk Dr Annika Schmeding, a cultural anthropologist and former Harvard Fellow, is a Senior Researcher at NIOD - Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies in Amsterdam. Drawing on more than a decade of research and professional experience in Afghanistan, her book Sufi Civilities: Religious authority and political change in Afghanistan (Stanford University Press, 2024) explores the dynamism of Afghanistan’s Sufi communities as both centers of spiritual learning as well as nodes for social action. The book encompasses areas such as minority relations, oral literature, and cultural memory in the context of wartime. Dr Schmeding’s work provides insights into the complex dynamics of religion, politics, and societal shifts in Afghanistan. Full details	Add event
19 March 2024	17:00	Rafeef Ziadah (KCL), Gulf Logistics: The 'Logistics Revolution' & Economic Diversification in Regional Transformation Centre for Gulf Studies Virtual Seminar Series. Full details	Add event
6 March 2024	17:30	Kristen Kao - The Social Sources of Legal Pluralism Kristen Kao is a Docent (Associate Professor) with the Department of Political Science at the University of Gothenburg. She holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in political science from the University of California, Los Angeles. Full details	Add event
5 March 2024	17:00	Nelida Fuccaro (NYU Abu Dhabi), Building Oil Knowledge in the Arab World: Humanising and Naturalising Oil Landscapes in Saudi Arabia and Iraq Centre for Gulf studies Virtual Seminar Series. Full details	Add event
28 February 2024	17:30	Visiting Speaker CKS- Voices that Matter: Kurdish Women at the Limits of Representation in Contemporary Turkey Wednesday, February 28, 2024 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM - IAIS LT1 Speaker: Professor Marlene Schäfers Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Cultural Anthropology, Utrecht University Title of lecture: Voices that Matter: Kurdish Women at the Limits of Representation in Contemporary Turkey. Full details	Add event
26 February 2024	17:00	Monday Majlis: The Hoopoe on the Pulpit: Narrative Structure and Imagined Performance in ʿAṭṭār’s Manṭeq al-ṭayr The Manṭeq al-ṭayr is often described as a spiritual journey in which the hoopoe leads a flock of birds through seven valleys towards the Simorgh. While the text does recount a spiritual journey, the quest actually makes up a very small percentage of the poem; the bulk of the work is devoted to the preparatory stories and homilies through which the hoopoe convinces the birds to set out and provides them with the knowledge they need to successfully complete it. In this sense, the poem is even more concerned with speech as an inducement to spiritual progress than it is with spiritual progress itself. In this talk, Austin O’Malley will examine the Manṭeq al-ṭayr as an exploration of speech’s perlocutionary efficacy and its limits, while showing how the frame- tale structure allows ʿAṭṭār to celebrate the power of his own homiletic discourse.. Full details	Add event
20 February 2024	17:00	Munira Khayyat (NYU-Abu Dhabi), The Intimacy of Oil: Aramco, Arabia and Empire Centre for Gulf Studies Virtual Seminar Series. Full details	Add event
19 February 2024	17:00	'Kak Satar': a Militant Visual Archive of Kurdish Resistance This presentation will touch upon the making of a militant archive that documents the Kurdish struggles in Iran in 1979-90. Faithi Setar, a Kurdish fighter turned photographer, has compiled a visual archive of photographs, audio and video-recordings documenting the everyday life of Peshmergas in their struggle against the Iranian State and their grassroots actions in the Kurshish rural society after the 1979 revolution. Full details	Add event
19 February 2024	17:00	'Kak Satar': a Militant Visual Archive of Kurdish Resistance This presentation will touch upon the making of a militant archive that documents the Kurdish struggles in Iran in 1979-90. Faithi Setar, a Kurdish fighter turned photographer, has compiled a visual archive of photographs, audio and video-recordings documenting the everyday life of Peshmergas in their struggle against the Iranian State and their grassroots actions in the Kurshish rural society after the 1979 revolution. Full details	Add event
6 February 2024	17:00	Haya Al Noaimi (Northwestern Qatar), Narratives of Protection: Insights into Gendered Power Structures and Statecraft in Qatar and the UAE Centre for Gulf Studies Virtual Seminar Series. Full details	Add event
29 January 2024	17:00	Monday Majalis: All under the Heavens… and the Heavens, Too: Universal History and Astrology in Mongol Iran In recent scholarly and public venues, the Mongol Empire has been celebrated as a moment of pre-modern globalization, an opening of trans-continental trajectories of cultural, social, and biological exchange. This is exemplified by the celebrated work of Rashid al-Din, and especially by the world history that he presented to Öljeitü Sultan in 1307 and which has earned him hismoniker as the “first world historian.” This perspective, however, is not limited to modern analyses of the Mongol age. People living under Mongol rule were themselves already looking beyond familiar boundaries and recognizing their time as an age of new universalizing politics, scholarship, and faith. From the “detribalization” of the nomadic steppes into the supra-tribal Mongol state to Buddhist and Muslim ideas of universal kingship, the experience of Mongol rule was understood as something new and unbounded.. Full details	Add event
23 January 2024	17:00	Karine Walther (Georgetown Qatar), Americans' Technological Empire in Arabia Centre for Gulf Studies Virtual Seminar Series. Full details	Add event
22 January 2024	17:00	Monday Majlis: Sufi Movements and Contestable Periodization Schemes The rise and the spread of Sufi movements in tandem with the fall of the Abbasids, a protracted process that began in the mid-9th century and continued unabated after the Mongol invasions and well beyond, is a commonplace in conventional narratives of premodern Islamic history. This long term and multi-faceted process is to some extent overshadowed by a stultifying use of periodization as a heuristic tidying up device for delineating and clarifying the transition from the pre-modern to the present. In this version of the story, it is the encounter with Europe and the impact of the West that occupy the headlines while long-term transmutations that may have occurred in the region over long centuries are relegated to the footnotes. Full details	Add event
15 January 2024	17:00	CSI Monday Majlis Full details	Add event
13 December 2023	17:00	Evaluation of Quantitative XRF Analysis Applied to Determine Cobalt Sources in Chinese Blue‐and‐White Porcelain Dr. Qian Ma serves as a research associate and post-doctoral fellow at the Oxford Accelerator Radiocarbon Unit, University of Oxford. Throughout his extensive research career, he has consistently applied innovative chemical techniques to diverse archaeological materials, offering fresh insights into historical practices and materials.. Full details	Add event
11 December 2023	17:00	CSI Monday Majlis Turkic martyrologies in Safavid Iran. Full details	Add event
6 December 2023	18:45	Seventy-five years too long: today’s genocide in Palestine is the sole possible outcome of an expansionist state based on ethnic dispossession Thomas Suárez is a London-based historical researcher as well as a professional Juilliard-trained violinist and composer. A former West Bank resident, his books include three on the history of cartography, and four on Palestine, most recently Palestine Hijacked – how Zionism forged an apartheid state from river to sea. Full details	Add event
5 December 2023	17:00	Maha Yassin (Climate Fellow, IRIS, American University of Sulimani), The Challenges and Opportunities of Climate Activism in Iraq Centre for Gulf Studies Virtual Seminar Series. Full details	Add event
4 December 2023	17:00	CSI Monday Majlis Amir Khusrau and the narrative of history. Full details	Add event
29 November 2023	17:00	Madīnat Ilbīra as an example of work in progress. Household ceramics and residential areas in an early al-Andalus city Cristina Martínez-Álvarez is a PhD student at Szkoła Doktorska Anthropos in the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology (Polish Academy of Sciences) in Warsaw and member of the research group "Identity, Society and Territory of the Western Mediterranean (6th-16th centuries)" of the University of Granada. This research is under development and is entitled “Islamization in kūra of Ilbīra (Al-Andalus). Comparative study on pottery production and distribution in the Early islamic period in south-east Iberian Peninsula”. Full details	Add event
29 November 2023	13:00	Utilising Textual Data in Crime Analysis: Insights from the Sex Market and Public Reactions to Crime on Twitter Text is often used for qualitative research, but it hasn’t been used much for quantitative research. This talk will show how we can use automated text analysis in crime research.. Full details	Add event
28 November 2023	17:00	Omar Sirri (SOAS), To Perform a Paradox: Checkpoints and Political Authority in Baghdad Centre for Gulf Studies Virtual Seminar Series. Full details	Add event
27 November 2023	17:00	CSI Monday Majlis Islamist Sufism: How Yusuf al-Qaradawi’s spirituality resembles mainstream Neotraditionalism. Full details	Add event
23 November 2023	17:00	The Centre for Kurdish Studies Shaikh Mahmoud and the Kurdish uprising: Changing British attitudes towards Kurdish autonomy. Full details	Add event
22 November 2023	9:30	Collective punishment as a colonial technique: A Discussion between David Anderson and Laleh Khalili Conversation between Laleh Khalili and David Anderson on the legacies of British colonial policies and policing in Kenya and Palestine. Full details	Add event
21 November 2023	17:00	Visiting Speaker - Noah Gardner, New Research on Aḥmad al-Būnī and the Rise of Sufi Lettrism Emily Selove in association with her Centre for Magic and Esotericism, is delighted to be able to confirm the visiting speaker Noah Gardner – please note that, for scheduling reasons, this event will be held on a Tuesday rather than the usual Wednesday. Full details	Add event
20 November 2023	17:00	CSI Monday Majlis The adventures of Adab. Full details	Add event
15 November 2023	17:30	Visiting Speaker - Yaara Lahav Gregory, author of Night Swimming in the Jordan Yaara Lahav Gregory – author of Night Swimming in the Jordan(published October 20th, 2023) Wednesday 15th November 5.30-7pm LT2, IAIS Building. Full details	Add event
14 November 2023	17:00	CANCELLED - Maia Holtermann Entwistle (QMUL) Constructing Culture: Art and Racial Capitalism in the Gulf Centre for Gulf Studies Virtual Seminar Series. Full details	Add event
13 November 2023	17:00	CSI Monday Majlis: Ferdowsi’s ecumenism in the Shahnama. Full details	Add event
8 November 2023	15:30	Darius Wainwright, University of Bristol Co-hosted by the Centre for Imperial and Global History, the Centre for Persian and Iranian Studies, and Art History and Visual Culture. Full details	Add event
30 October 2023	17:00	CSI Monday Majilis Islam, Arabic, and slavery in Omar ibn Said’s America. Full details	Add event
24 October 2023	17:00	Mohammed Al Sudairi (ANU, King Faisal Centre): Cold War Worldmaking Between East Asia and the Arab World Centre for Gulf Studies Virtual Seminar Series. Full details	Add event
18 October 2023	17:00	Local Ceramics from the Mediaeval Islamic Trade Centre of Harlaa, Ethiopia in a Regional Perspective: Contact and Influence Dr. Nicholas Tait is an Associate Researcher at the Centre for Islamic Archaeology, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter. As part of his research, he has worked on ceramics from sites in Sudan, Ethiopia, and Bahrain. This paper focuses on the local ceramics from Harlaa, Ethiopia, he studied for his PhD research at the University of Exeter.. Full details	Add event
17 October 2023	17:30	Protesting Jordan: Geographies of Power and Dissent You are invited to attend an lecture with Professor Jillian Schwedler.. Full details	Add event
16 October 2023	17:00	CSI Monday Majilis How to Think about Muslim Difference. Full details	Add event
9 October 2023	17:00	CSI Monday Majilis Sharing Wives and Drinking Wine: The Mazdakites, the Ayyārs, and the Mithraists: Accusations & Realities. Full details	Add event
8 February 2023	14:00	Institutional Ethnography: A Feminist Approach to Analysing Institutions Using Texts Institutional Ethnography is an interdisciplinary feminist approach to research that examines how texts and language organise our everyday lives.. Full details	Add event
2 February 2023	17:30	Visiting Speaker: Professor llario Meandri and Dr Giulia Ferdeghini Ethnomusicology in the domain of Linked Open Data & Beyta Dimdim: Performative, Textu(r)al and Musical Features. Full details	Add event
8 December 2022	17:30	The Ethics of Weeping: The Case of Islam Weeping is a way to express commitment to a community and what it holds to be sacred, but not all weeping is the same, even in a single religious tradition.. Full details	Add event
17 November 2022	17:30	Medical Education and Healthcare in Palestine There will be talks from Khaled Dawas, FQMS Chairman, and two of our postgraduate trainees, Dr Alaa Al Sayed (paediatric cardiologist) and Dr Assef Jawaada (endocrine surgeon). They will speak about what it’s like to live and train in Palestine, as well as why they chose to study medicine and what would help future medical students. The talks will be accompanied by an exhibition on posters from Palestine, as well as information and videos on the work of FQMS. Full details	Add event
2 November 2022	14:30	Decolonising Quantitative Teaching The teaching of quantitative methods has a crucial role to play in the decolonisation of undergraduate politics degree programmes, given that Eurocentrism determines the quantitative approaches used today. As such, the decolonisation of, and through, quantitative methods teaching is both possible and necessary. Full details	Add event
5 October 2022	15:00	Wednesday CSI Seminar 15:00-16:30 on Wednesday the 5th of October in IAIS, Lecture Theatre 2:. Full details	Add event
5 October 2022	13:00	Suffrage, Turnout and the Household: The Case of Early Women Voters in Sweden How were newly enfranchised women mobilized? Classic narratives suggest that newly enfranchised women were mobilized by their arguably more politicized husbands. However, husbands' mobilization of wives has not been subject to rigorous tests, primarily reflecting lack of suitable data.. Full details	Add event
13 June 2022	16:00	CSI'S Monday Majlis: Professor Nada Moumtaz (University of Toronto) Professor Nada Moumtaz (University of Toronto) will present on "Gucci and the Waqf” looking at the post-war reconstruction of Beirut, and the role played by Islamic endowments (waqfs). Full details	Add event
8 June 2022	15:00	CSI Wednesday Seminar Nauman Naqvi, visiting professor from Habib University. Further details TBC. Full details	Add event
6 June 2022	16:00	CSI'S Monday Majlis: Professor Sean Anthony (Ohio State University) Monday 6 Professor Sean Anthony (Ohio State University) will talk about his recent research including his most recent book, Muhammad and the Empires of Faith. Full details	Add event
1 June 2022	15:00	CSI Wednesday Seminar Nadia Khalaf, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, will present on “Islamic archaeological landscapes in Africa, reflections on endangered heritage in a rapidly changing world”. Full details	Add event
30 May 2022	16:00	CSI'S Monday Majlis: Dr Usaama Al-Azami (University of Oxford) Dr Usaama Al-Azami (University of Oxford) will talk about his latest research and his recent book: Islam and the Arab Revolutions (OUP, 2021).. Full details	Add event
30 May 2022	12:30	Seminar 'Young female miners in Tajikistani coal mines: Intersectional extractive violence and ecologies of exhaustion' The Centre for Persian and Iranian Studies is delighted to invite you to this wonderful event at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies on Monday 30 May 2022. The event will be preceded by a lunch in the street gallery starting at 12. Full details	Add event
25 May 2022	15:00	CSI Wednesday Seminar Abdul Samad Shaikh – visiting fellow from the International Islamic University in Islamabad, Pakistan, will present on his research on early Islamic stories of the Prophet and hadith transmission. Full details	Add event
23 May 2022	16:00	CSI'S Monday Majlis: Professor Konrad Hirschler (University of Hamburg) Professor Konrad Hirschler (University of Hamburg) will present on “'Material turn and Islamic Studies: Manuscript studies as an example”. Full details	Add event
18 May 2022	15:00	Wednesday CSI Seminar Bianka Speidl, visiting scholar with the LAWALISI project, will talk about her research on fatwas and Islamic environmental ethics in the Shii tradition. Full details	Add event
16 May 2022	16:00	CSI'S Monday Majlis: Professor Anna Bigelow (Stanford University) Professor Anna Bigelow (Stanford University) will talk about her research around “Islam through Objects”. Full details	Add event
11 May 2022	15:00	Wednesday CSI seminar Rob Gleave, “Christian Law-Islamic Context: the Nomocanon of the Coptic canon lawyer al-Ṣafī Ibn al-ʿAssāl (d.1260)”. Full details	Add event
9 May 2022	16:00	CSI'S Monday Majlis: Professors Yasmin Amin and Nevin Reda (Cairo and Toronto) Professors Yasmin Amin and Nevin Reda (Cairo and Toronto) will talk about their new book: Islamic Interpretive Tradition and Gender Justice: Processes of Canonization Subversion. Full details	Add event
28 March 2022	12:00	The United States and Palestinian Self-Determination from Wilson to Truman: A Reconsideration - Eleanor Gao and Josh Ruebner The United States and Palestinian Self-Determination from Wilson to Truman. Full details	Add event
14 March 2022	12:00	Decolonial Feminist Ecolgies: Local Roots, Global Shoots: Katie Natanel and Rami Rmeileh Decolonial Feminist Ecolgies: Local Roots, Global Shoots. Full details	Add event
11 March 2022	13:00	'Group identities and strategic discrimination' presented by Dr Dominik Duell, University of Innsbruck In a laboratory setting, we explore strategic discrimination in principal-agent relationships, which arises from mutually reinforcing expectations of identity-contingent choices. Our experimental design isolates the influence of the strategic environment from effects of other sources of discrimination, including statistical differences between subpopulations and outright prejudice.. Full details	Add event
3 March 2022	9:00	'The 4D Project: a holistic response to climate misinformation' presented by John Cook, Monash University A number of psychological challenges hinder the countering of misinformation and science denial. Polarization on issues such as climate change and COVID-19 result in some segments of the population being more resistant to fact-checks. Inoculation theory offers a solution to polarization, with experimental studies finding that inoculating messages neutralize the polarizing influence of misinformation on issues like climate change.. Full details	Add event
28 February 2022	12:00	The Image of the Female Across Musical Cultures: A Study of Arabic Romantic Songs and their Translations: Istvan Kristo-Nagy and Majida Deeb Ibrahim The Image of the Female Across Musical Cultures: A Study of Arabic Romantic Songs and their Translations. Full details	Add event
24 February 2022	14:00	'Microtargeting: Reverse engineering of an ethical conundrum' presented by Prof Stephan Lewandowsky (University of Bristol) There has been much concern about the “microtargeting” of political messages at individuals on social media based on sometimes sensitive personal characteristics that are inferred by the platforms from mundane data and activities. Evidence suggests that this type of microtargeted advertising, for example based on recipients’ personality, can be effective.. Full details	Add event
14 February 2022	12:00	Creating the Female Matr rin Late Antiquity: Sajjad Rizvi and Alice Van Den Bosch Creating the Female Matr rin Late Antiquity. Full details	Add event
26 January 2022	17:00	Dr Matthew Hedges: Reinventing the Sheikhdom. Clan, Power and Patronage in Mohammed bin Zayed's UAE As part of this term's Visiting Speakers series, the Centre for Gulf Studies is delighted to host the book launch of our colleague Dr. Matthew Hedges. Full details	Add event
20 January 2022	18:00	A conversation with Mustafa Barghouti and Ilan Pappé Liberation and the Left: On failures, struggles and futures. Full details	Add event
15 December 2021	16:00	Medieval Archaeology in the Horn of Africa : Helina S.Woldekiros The Centre for Islamic Archaeology invites you to the ‘Medieval Archaeology in the Horn of Africa’ seminar series. The seminars aim to bring recent research on the medieval archaeology of the Horn of Africa to a wide audience. All are welcome. A second series focusing on different regions of the Horn of Africa will run in Spring 2022. All lectures will be online via Zoom.. Full details	Add event
8 December 2021	16:00	Medieval Archaeology in the Horn of Africa : Marie -Laure Derat The Centre for Islamic Archaeology invites you to the ‘Medieval Archaeology in the Horn of Africa’ seminar series. The seminars aim to bring recent research on the medieval archaeology of the Horn of Africa to a wide audience. All are welcome. A second series focusing on different regions of the Horn of Africa will run in Spring 2022. All lectures will be online via Zoom.. Full details	Add event
1 December 2021	16:00	Medieval Archaeology in the Horn of Africa : Alfredo González-Ruibal The Centre for Islamic Archaeology invites you to the ‘Medieval Archaeology in the Horn of Africa’ seminar series.. Full details	Add event
17 November 2021	16:00	Medieval Archaeology in the Horn of Africa : Said M-Shidad Hussein The Centre for Islamic Archaeology invites you to the ‘Medieval Archaeology in the Horn of Africa’ seminar series. The seminars aim to bring recent research on the medieval archaeology of the Horn of Africa to a wide audience. All are welcome. A second series focusing on different regions of the Horn of Africa will run in Spring 2022. All lectures will be online via Zoom. Full details	Add event
3 November 2021	16:00	Medieval Archaeology in the Horn of Africa : Julien Loiseau The Centre for Islamic Archaeology invites you to the ‘Medieval Archaeology in the Horn of Africa’ seminar series. The seminars aim to bring recent research on the medieval archaeology of the Horn of Africa to a wide audience. All are welcome. A second series focusing on different regions of the Horn of Africa will run in Spring 2022. All lectures will be online via Zoom.. Full details	Add event
20 October 2021	16:00	Medieval Archaeology in the Horn of Africa: Alemseged Beldados The Centre for Islamic Archaeology invites you to the ‘Medieval Archaeology in the Horn of Africa’ seminar series. The seminars aim to bring recent research on the medieval archaeology of the Horn of Africa to a wide audience. All are welcome. A second series focusing on different regions of the Horn of Africa will run in Spring 2022. All lectures will be online via Zoom.. Full details	Add event
14 October 2021	16:00	Routes Conversation: Is the asylum system fit for purpose for Sexual Orientation & Gender Identity (SOGI) claimants? Routes Conversation: Is the asylum system fit for purpose for Sexual Orientation & Gender Identity (SOGI) claimants? with Raawiyah Rifath (Lecturer in Law and PhD Candidate, University of Exeter) and Prof. Nuno Ferreira (Professor of Law, University of Sussex). Full details	Add event
12 July 2021	14:15	Narrating Relationships in Holy Lives http://blogs.exeter.ac.uk/narratingholylives/. Full details	Add event
7 July 2021	14:00	South West Doctoral Training Programme (SWDTP): Secondary analysis of cross-national, comparative survey data webinar Those completing PhD research over the past 16 months may have had to develop new strategies for conducting comparative research because travel to other countries has not been possible. Full details	Add event
29 June 2021	14:00	IAIS PGR Research Seminars 2021 All students and staff are welcome to attend. Full details	Add event
25 June 2021	12:00	IAIS PGR Research Seminars 2021 All students and staff are welcome to attend. Full details	Add event
24 June 2021	17:00	Exeter-Habib Seminars on Islam after Colonialism: Dard Neuman (UC Santa Cruz) Heterodoxy and the Politics of the Popular in post 1857 Hindustani Music. Full details	Add event
23 June 2021	17:00	A Model Court For Migrant Children Webinar to refine and develop proposals for A Model Court For Migrant Children, Chaired by Baroness Helena Kennedy of the Shaws. Full details	Add event
16 June 2021	12:30	Wednesday CSI lunchtime seminar Pooya Razavian (Birmingham): Motahari: On Rights, Capabilities, and Moral Ontology. Full details	Add event
14 June 2021	13:00	University of Exeter Workshop on Media and UK Elections The British Election Longitudinal News Study 2015-2019 (BELNS) covers campaign coverage relating to three general elections: 2015, 2017, 2019. Full details	Add event
11 June 2021	12:00	IAIS PGR Research Seminars 2021 All students and staff are welcome to attend. Full details	Add event
10 June 2021	17:00	Exeter-Habib Seminars on Islam after Colonialism: Margrit Pernau (Max Planck, Berlin) Longing for the Past: Bahadur Yar Jung and the Masculinization of Islamic History. Full details	Add event
9 June 2021	16:00	Routes Conversation Why should colonial histories be central to the study of migration and what does taking this seriously really mean? with Dr Lucy Mayblin and Dr Luke de Noronha Routes conversations are monthly meetings where two scholars or activists from different disciplines discuss a migration question from their different perspectives. In this conversation Dr Lucy Mayblin, Senior Lecturer in Sociology at The University of Sheffield and Dr Luke de Noronha, Lecturer in Race, Ethnicity and Postcolonial Studies at UCL will have a conversation on 'Why should colonial histories be central to the study of migration and what does taking this seriously really mean?'. Full details	Add event
2 June 2021	17:00	Wednesday CSI seminar Ali Fares presents: The Three Yaqīn: Shaykh ʿAli Nūr al-Dīn al-Yashrūṭī’s Approach to Knowledge, Vision and Truth of Certainty. Full details	Add event
2 June 2021	14:00	Women Candidates Use More Positive Language than Men Candidates in Political Campaigns Dr Akitaka Matsuo will be presenting his work with Tiffany Barnes, Charles Crabtree and Yoshikuni Ono. What explains the type of electoral campaign run by politicians? Prior work shows that parties strategically manipulate the level of emotive language used in their campaigns based on their incumbency status, their policy position, and objective economic conditions ... Full details	Add event
28 May 2021	12:00	Postponed until 11th June: IAIS PGR Research Seminars 2021 All students and staff welcome to attend. Full details	Add event
27 May 2021	18:00	A conversation with Nadine El-Enany and Ilan Pappé On colonial violence & anticolonial resistance. Full details	Add event
27 May 2021	17:00	Exeter-Habib Seminars on Islam after Colonialism: Akbar Hyder (Texas) All Alone in Lucknow: Yagana the Ghalib-breaker. Full details	Add event
26 May 2021	14:00	Negativity in Politicians' Communication during Campaign and Regular Times Bruno Castanho Silva, Lennart Schürmann, and Sven-Oliver Proksch While research on the tone of politicians' rhetoric has picked up steam in recent years, almost all of our knowledge on factors that influence negativity is based on political communication during electoral campaigns. Full details	Add event
25 May 2021	15:00	Kurdish Translations of World Literature A panel discussion on Kurdish Translations of World Literature with participation of Kurdish authors and translators. Full details	Add event
20 May 2021	17:00	Exeter-Habib Seminars on Islam after Colonialism: Nur Sobers-Khan (MIT) Mass-producing the Cosmos: Colonial Patronage and Print Technologies in 19th-century Divination Literature in South Asia. Full details	Add event
19 May 2021	17:00	Arabic Text Seminar Saiyad Nizamuddin Ahmed (HRF, Exeter) will lead the discussion on the Fuṣūṣ al-ḥikam of Ibn ʿArabī (d. 1240). Full details	Add event
19 May 2021	14:00	A Cross-National Analysis of the Effect of Parties' Characteristics on Affective Polarization and Interpersonal Trust This paper uses multilevel models to investigate how parties influence affective polarization and interpersonal trust in multiparty systems. Full details	Add event
13 May 2021	12:00	POSTPONED: IAIS PGR Research Seminars 2021 All students and staff welcome to attend. Full details	Add event
12 May 2021	18:00	A conversation with Yanis Varoufakis and Ilan Pappé: On crisis and disobedience This is the fourth conversation seminar in this series, organised by the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, the European Centre for Palestine Studies and the Exeter Decolonising Network. Full details	Add event
12 May 2021	14:00	When (not) to trust the overlap in confidence intervals: A practical guide Researchers often aim to compare estimates across groups. For an intuitive and compact presentation of empirical results, many practitioners prefer reporting group-specific estimates instead of pairwise differences, and subsequently seek to infer the statistical significance of pairwise differences from the confidence intervals of the group-specific estimates. Full details	Add event
12 May 2021	12:30	Wednesday CSI lunchtime seminar An informal session just before Eid to discuss what we have done and what we might do and an update on the CSI role within the growing global partnerships of the IAIS. Full details	Add event
6 May 2021	17:00	Exeter-Habib Seminars on Islam after Colonialism: Sarah Waheed (Davidson College) Hidden Histories of Pakistan: Censorship, Literature, and Secular Nationalism in Late Colonial India. Full details	Add event
5 May 2021	16:00	Routes Event: Precarious protection: Inside Europes Asylum Appeals with Dr Nick Gill This will be an informal talk outlining some of the findings from a set of ethnographies of asylum appeals in France, Germany, the UK, Belgium and Austria conducted over the last few years by researchers at Exeter University as part of the ASYFAIR project. It will examine why asylum appeals are important, but also some of the challenges they encounter on the ground. It will raise concerns about the superficiality and (in)accessibility of legal protection via asylum appeals, and use this to reflect on some of the problematics of refugee protection more broadly. Full details	Add event
5 May 2021	12:30	Arabic Text Seminar Luca Patrizi will lead on the discussion on adab in Bayān al-Ḥāja ilā al-Ṭibb wa al-aṭibbā’ wa-ādābihim wa-waṣāyāhim of Quṭb al-Dīn al-Shirāzī. Full details	Add event
29 April 2021	18:00	A conversation with Judith Butler and Ilan Pappe: On humanity, violence and imagination This is the third conversation seminar in this series, organised by the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, the European Centre for Palestine Studies and the Exeter Decolonising Network. Full details	Add event
29 April 2021	17:00	Exeter-Habib Seminars on Islam after Colonialism: Anand Vivek Taneja (Vanderbilt) The (Critical) Edge of Tradition: Understanding Ghalib as Wali in Contemporary Delhi. Full details	Add event
29 April 2021	15:00	Panel Discussion: 'Translation and Language Revitalisation: Global Kurdish Literature' A conversation with scholars and translators of Kurdish literature into Polish, Italian, French, and English.. Full details	Add event
28 April 2021	12:30	Wednesday CSI lunchtime seminar Majid Montazer-Mahdi presents: The Politics of Collective Biographies of Shiʿi ʿUlama in the Early Modern Period: The Case of Amal al-āmil. Full details	Add event
23 April 2021	12:00	IAIS PGR Research Seminars 2021 All students and staff are welcome to attend. Full details	Add event
22 April 2021	18:00	A conversation with Noam Chomsky and Ilan Pappé: On impasse, internationalism and radical change IAIS, the European Centre for Palestine Studies and the Exeter Decolonising Network will be continuing our conversations series over the next two months. Please join us!. Full details	Add event
9 April 2021	12:00	IAIS PGR Research Seminars 2021 All students and staff are welcome to attend,. Full details	Add event
8 April 2021	16:00	Exeter-Habib Seminars on Islam after Colonialism: Professor Najeeb Jan (Habib) Blasphemy, Biopolitics and Violence in Pakistan: Notes on the Metacolonial State. Full details	Add event
31 March 2021	17:00	Exeter-Habib Seminars on Islam after Colonialism: Dr Simon Wolfgang Fuchs (Freiburg) Strange Success: The Enduring Appeal of an Islamic State after Colonialism. Full details	Add event
25 March 2021	16:00	MOVED TO 31st MARCH: Exeter-Habib Seminars on Islam after Colonialism: Moved to 31st March. Full details	Add event
25 March 2021	12:00	IAIS PGR Research Seminars 2021 All students and staff are welcome to attend. Full details	Add event
17 March 2021	12:30	Arabic Text Seminar Amirah Bukhari to lead on a text by al-Imam 'Abd al-Qahir al-Jurjani from his al-Risala al-Shafiya. Full details	Add event
11 March 2021	16:00	Exeter-Habib Seminars on Islam after Colonialism: Professor Ali Altaf Mian (Florida) Beyond Victorian Sexuality: Intra-Muslims Contestations over the Erotic in Colonial and Postcolonial South Asia. Full details	Add event
3 March 2021	16:00	Routes event: U.S. Immigration Law - a brief overview of issues with Anthony Vale Anthony Vale is a 1972 law graduate from the University of Exeter, who has been practicing law in the USA. Tony represents immigrants caught up in the US immigration system, who seek asylum or relief from removal. He has been successful in cases on behalf of non-citizens from Angola, Cameroon, El Salvador Guatemala and Honduras. These cases are difficult and raise many constitutional issues, which he will clarify and discuss. Full details	Add event
26 February 2021	12:00	IAIS PGR Research Seminars 2021 All students and staff are welcome to attend. Full details	Add event
25 February 2021	16:00	Exeter-Habib Seminars on Islam after Colonialism: Professor Ilyse Morgenstein Furst (Vermont) Professor Ilyse Morgenstein Fürst (Vermont) Racialization, Minoritization, and Islam Before and After Colonialism. Full details	Add event
11 February 2021	16:00	Exeter-Habib Seminars on Islam after Colonialism: Professor Mana Kia (Columbia) Companionship as Political Ethic: Late Mughal Visions of Just Rule and Ethical Service. Full details	Add event
10 February 2021	16:00	Routes event: Marriage, migration and Integration with Professor Katharine Charsley Full details	Add event
29 January 2021	12:00	IAIS PGR Research Seminars 2021 All students and staff are welcome to attend. Full details	Add event
28 January 2021	16:00	Exeter-Habib Seminars on Islam after Colonialism: Dr Farah Mihlar (Exeter): Exeter-Habib Seminars on Islam after Colonialism Dr Farah Mihlar (Exeter). Full details	Add event
14 January 2021	16:00	Exeter-Habib Seminars on Islam after Colonialism: Dr. Samia Khatun (SOAS, London) Full details	Add event
2 December 2020	16:00	Routes Conversation: What Does Citizenship Mean Today? with Dr Ben Hudson (Lecturer in Law at the University of Exeter) and Daniel Mutanda (MPH Candidate at the University of Warwick) Routes Conversation: What Does Citizenship Mean Today? with Dr Ben Hudson (Lecturer in Law at the University of Exeter) and Daniel Mutanda (MPH Candidate at the University of Warwick). Full details	Add event
13 November 2020	12:30	ICE Development Fund Presentation: Christine Robins, ‘Fragile Faiths: Endangered Religious Cultures in Dialogue’ Full details	Add event
11 November 2020	15:30	Understanding the relationships between risk factors, intersectional identities and criminal career trajectories: A multilevel approach Researchers have called for developmental criminologists to better understand how criminal career patterns and 'risk factors' relate to intersectional identities. Full details	Add event
7 October 2020	12:30	Wednesday CSI Lunchtime Seminar Presenters: Kubra Memis and Abdullah Almatar. Full details	Add event
9 September 2020	15:00	Establishment Relations and Fatherhood Wage Premiums Fathers often earn more than their childless counterparts, although effects can vary among groups of men. Most of this literature uses micro data and attributes these wage effects to individual selection. We instead draw on relational inequality theory (RIT) to argue the importance of establishment relations behind group differences in net fatherhood wage premiums.. Full details	Add event
17 June 2020	16:00	What next after your Middle East, Islamic Studies and Arabic degree? Free webinar with Andrew Phillips, an IAIS graduate, former MD of Pearson. Full details	Add event
18 March 2020	15:30	CANCELLED: Understanding the relationships between risk factors, intersectional identities and criminal career trajectories: A multilevel approach Researchers have called for developmental criminologists to better understand how criminal career patterns and 'risk factors' relate to intersectional identities.. Full details	Add event
10 March 2020	14:00	CANCELLED - Hope and Despair: Presidents, Prime Ministers, Populists, Polarization and Mass Democratic Accountability in Challenging Times The Executive Approval Project (EAP) is a global collaborative data and research project whose goal is to measure public approval of political leaders to help understand why some executives are despised and removed while others remain popular and reelected.. Full details	Add event
19 February 2020	17:00	Visiting speaker: Dr Maziyar Ghiabi - 'Drugs Politics: Managing Disorder in the Islamic Republic of Iran' Maziyar Ghiabi is a Postdoctoral Research at the Drugs and (Dis)Order at School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London. Full details	Add event
7 February 2020	16:30	Visiting Speaker: Dr Kamran Matin - Kurdish Politics of Class and Nation in Post-Revolutionary Iran Dr Kamran Matin is a Senior Lecturer in International Relations at Sussex University, UK. Full details	Add event
7 February 2020	15:30	Geographical and Place-based dependence in multilevel models Multilevel models have been applied to study many geographical processes in epidemiology, economics, political science, sociology, urban analytics, and transportation. They are most often used to express how the effect of a treatment or intervention may vary by geographical group, a form of geographical process heterogeneity.. Full details	Add event
10 December 2019	11:30	Centre for Islamic Archaeology seminar: Awet T. Araya - The Red Sea, East Africa, and the Gulf in The Islamic Period Full details	Add event
3 December 2019	11:30	Centre for Islamic Archaeology seminar: Nur Efeoglu - The Representation of the Seljuk and Ottoman Past in British Museums A Comparative Critical Evaluation of the Collections in the British Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum. Full details	Add event
20 November 2019	10:30	Who do we think you are? Detecting salient identities in text Behaviour differs between social groups – this appears to be true for linguistic style as well. Recent research has shown differences between age, gender, religious and political groups in the way group members speak. Since we are members of many different social groups, the question arises whether group membership affects our linguistic style constantly or whether our style shifts towards the group membership most relevant to the situation. Full details	Add event
8 November 2019	15:30	The case against perfection in the mean: Why it is time for an individualised approach to evidence for education Analyses of educational interventions need to produce evidence that is relevant to specific groups of students. When a group is not the target population of an intervention, any analysis involving just that group is called subgroup analysis, which is often regarded as a statistical malpractice, as its findings are often underpowered, unreliable, prone to overinterpretation at best, or misleading at worst.. Full details	Add event
6 November 2019	10:30	Worlds Colliding: Examining the social networks and linguistic patterns of a merging organization through email During a merger the acquiring organization is often a dominant force. It overwhelms the target organization and replaces its norms, routines, and formal structures. I will present the results from an ongoing analysis of a massively rich dataset of emails, longitudinal surveys, individual performance, and ethnography that paints a detailed picture of an unfolding organizational merger.. Full details	Add event
22 October 2019	11:30	Centre for Islamic Archaeology seminar: Nick Tait - Local Ceramics from the Islamic Trade Centre of Harlaa, Eastern Ethiopia Chronology, Connections and Islamisation in the Horn of Africa, 10th – 15th Centuries AD. Full details	Add event
15 October 2019	11:30	Centre for Islamic Archaeology seminar: Hannah Parsons - The Commodification and Modification of Chinese Ceramics in East Africa (9th -17th Centuries): Fieldwork findings from Ethiopia and the Zanzibar Archipelago, Tanzania, 2018-2019. Full details	Add event
9 October 2019	17:30	Sabiha Allouche : How to talk about drones: a view from Gaza In this work, I attempt to decolonize the unchecked scholarship on drone warfare. From TV series, movies and video games, to textbooks, journal articles, and books; every space is apt for theorizing the drone. Although feminist and critical theorists took it upon themselves to rethink the drone and to intervene critically in their examination of it, their work, I argue, remains a self-contained theoretical loop that steers away from the original promise of Dona Haraway’s original Cyborg Manifesto since it is notoriously difficult to translate into feminist praxis. What's more, theirs is an approach that has legitimized abstraction and artificial lexicons to the extent they function as epistemic facts that overwrite matters of concerns. In particular, it speaks little to/of the lived reality - the quintessential feminist standpoint - of the Pakistani, Afghan and Gazan populations who encounter the drone daily. Full details	Add event
8 October 2019	11:30	Centre for Islamic Archaeology seminar: Alessandro Ghidoni - The Ship Timbers from the Islamic Site of Al-Balid A Case Study of Sewn-Plank Technology in the Indian Ocean. Full details	Add event
24 September - 24 October 2019	11:30	Centre for Islamic Archaeology seminar: Nathan Anderson - Excavations in Boeni Bay Results from the 2019 Field Season at Kingany, Madagascar, and the Implications for Islamisation in the Mozambique Channel. Full details	Add event
11 - 12 July 2019		Professor Rob Gleave (Exeter) and Dr Shuruq Naguib (Lancaster) present "Menstruation and Menopause in Islamic Legal Cultures" The workshop will bring together researchers examining different aspects of menstruation and menopause – from the ritual and religious to the social and cultural – from different methodological perspectives, and across different time periods. Contributions using a variety of theoretical insights from ritual, gender, sexuality, textual, anthropological and historical studies are particularly welcome. Full details	Add event
13 May 2019	16:30	Professor Richard Foltz (Concordia University) presents "What is the meaning of 'Tajik'?" Richard Foltz (Ph.D., Harvard, 1996) is a cultural historian specializing in the broader Iranian world and his work highlights the wide-ranging influence of Iranian civilization on diverse societies stretching from the Balkans to China.. Full details	Add event
29 March 2019	16:00	Caroline Ayoub and Iyad Kallas: ‘Arts and cultures of resistance and resilience: Radio SouriaLi amidst the Syrian conflict’ IAIS are delighted to welcome Radio SouriaLi’s co-founders Caroline Ayoub and Iyad Kallas to present ‘Arts and cultures of resistance and resilience: Radio SouriaLi amidst the Syrian conflict’. A workshop to explore the role of of Radio SouriaLi during the Syrian conflict.. Full details	Add event
27 March 2019	17:15	Dr Ebtihal Mahadeen (University of Edinburgh) presents the talk "Media, Militarism, and Culture: Interrogating Jordan’s Gendered War on Terror" Dr. Mahadeen is lecturer in gender and media with a focus on the Arab world. She is based at the department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Edinburgh. Her research focuses on the intersection of gender, sexuality, and media within an Arab context and has addressed questions of female virginity, militarist masculinities and femininities, and LGBT media activism. She has a professional background in reporting and online media and offers consultancies on gender, media, and higher education in the Arab region.. Full details	Add event
20 - 21 March 2019	17:15	Professor Christian Sahner (University of Oxford) presents the talk "Christian Martyrs under Islam: Religious Violence and the Making of the Muslim World" Christian Sahner is associate professor of Islamic History at the University of Oxford. He is principally interested in the transition from Late Antiquity to the Islamic Middle Ages, relations between Muslims and Christians, and the history of Syria and Iran. A graduate of Oxford and Princeton, where he earned his doctorate in 2015, he is the author of two books: 'Among the Ruins: Syria Past and Present' (Oxford/Hurst, 2014) and 'Christian Martyrs under Islam: Religious Violence and the Making of the Muslim World' (Princeton, 2018).. Full details	Add event
19 March 2019	14:00	Dr Imam Mamadou Bocoum and Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg on "Finding the Hope" Join Dr Imam Mamadou Bocoum and Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg on 'Finding the Hope': a deep dive into scripture and history. Full details	Add event
14 March 2019	17:30	Dr Attiya Ahmad (Columbian College of Arts and Sciences) presents the talk "Housetalk and Everyday Conversions: South Asian Migrant Domestic Workers' Newfound Islamic Pieties in Kuwait" Dr. Attiya Ahmad is an Associate Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs at The George Washington University (Washington DC, USA). Broadly conceived, her research focuses on the gendered interrelation of Islamic movements and political economic processes spanning the Middle East and South Asia, in particular the greater Arabian Peninsula/Persian Gulf and Indian Ocean regions.. Full details	Add event
14 March 2019	13:00	"Nazira Zeineddine: A Pioneer of Islamic Feminism": A Masterclass with the book's author miriam cooke Our session will consist of a contextualising talk by miriam, followed by discussion of the book's content, themes and methodology. We will learn about Nazira Zeineddine's life and project, as well as tensions that accompany the practice of "retrieving women's voices." As scholars, where can we find authorial voice in the absence of information about a person? For miriam this has meant engaging in the practice of 'creative non-fiction', which uses elements of fiction to bridge the gaps between the biographical data scattered throughout the author's hermeneutical text. There will be much for all of us to engage with intellectually, methodologically and politically. Full details	Add event
14 March 2019	12:00	Are you listening? Crisis Negotiation Skills with Deborah Goodwin OBE Join us as we welcome prestigious guest speaker Dr Deborah Goodwin OBE, to present her seminar on Crisis Negotiation Skills. Ever wondered how negotiators work? How do they even start to de-escalate something like a siege or a conflict? Would you know what to do? No? Well, here's a chance to learn! We're also throwing in a pizza lunch for attendees!. Full details	Add event
13 March 2019	15:30	Seminar Series - “Can genetics tell us anything about voting patterns, including Brexit?” Abstract TBC. Full details	Add event
6 - 7 March 2019	17:15	Professor Adam Sabra (University of California at Santa Barbara) presents the talk "Household and State in Ottoman Egypt: The Case of al-Sāda al-Bakrīy" Adam Sabra is Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he holds the King Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud Chair in Islamic Studies. Currently, he is a senior research fellow at the Alexander von Humboldt Kolleg for the Study of Islamicate Intellectual History at the University of Bonn. He has published extensively on the history of Egypt in the Mamluk and Ottoman sultanates. His most recent publication is ʿAbd al-Wahhab ibn Ahmad ibn ʿAli al-Shaʿrani, Advice for Callow Jurists and Gullible Mendicants on Befriending Emirs' (Yale University Press, 2017). Full details	Add event
5 March 2019	18:30	Dr Neil Faulkner presents "Lawrence of Arabia, Islamophobia and the War on Terror" A diverse talk on Lawrence of Arabia, problematic perceptions of the Middle East, Islamophobia and the War on Terror. Dr Neil Faulkner FSA is an archaeologist, historian, writer, political commentator, and occasional broadcaster. He has directed field projects in Britain, Jordan, and elsewhere, including the Sedgeford Historical and Archaeological Research Project in north-west Norfolk, and the Great Arab Revolt Project in southern Jordan. Full details	Add event
5 March 2019	13:00	Gender, Sexual Orientation and Stereotypes: Challenges for Lesbian and Gay Candidates This paper explores how the public stereotypes politicians based on gender and sexual orientation when cued about these identities in low information environments. While many studies examine high profile races to demonstrate the impact that media coverage and its potential to trigger stereotypes has on opportunities for female or queer candidates, few studies explore its implications in typical elections at the riding level.. Full details	Add event
27 February 2019	17:15	Professor Miriam Cooke (Duke University & Honorary Research Fellow, Exeter) presents "Dancing in Damascus: Creativity, Resilience and the Syrian Revolution" Miriam Cooke is Braxton Craven Professor of Arab Cultures emerita at Duke University. She has been a visiting professor in Tunisia, Romania, Indonesia, Qatar and Istanbul. She serves on several national and international advisory boards, including academic journals and institutions. Her writings have focused on the intersection of gender and war in modern Arabic literature, Arab women writers’ constructions of Islamic feminism, contemporary Syrian and Khaliji cultures, and global Muslim networks. Full details	Add event
27 February 2019	15:30	Seminar Series - “Measuring global gender inequality indicators using large-scale online advertising data” The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a key instrument in setting the agenda around global development until 2030. The promotion of gender equality features prominently in the SDGs, both as a standalone goal as well as in relation to other goals (e.g access to education). Full details	Add event
20 February 2019	17:15	Professor Jaakko Hameen-Anttila (Edinburgh University) presents the talk "From Middle Persian to Arabic, from Arabic to Persian: notes on first-millennium translations" Jaakko Hameen-Anttila earned his PhD in 1994 from the University of Helsinki. He was Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies in the same University from 2000 to 2016. Currently, since 2016 he is the Iraq Chair of Arabic and Islamic Studies at the University of Edinburgh. He has published extensively on Classical Arabic literature, Arab-Islamic cultural history, and cultural contacts between Iran and the Arabs. Full details	Add event
13 February 2019	17:15	Professor Jordi Tejel, (Institut d'Histoire, Universite de Neuchatel) presents the talk "States of Rumours: Information Orders in the Turkish-Syrian Borderland, 1929-1945" Dr Tejel was a Post-doctoral Fellow (2006-2008) at the School of Oriental and African Studies (London) and at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (Paris). He was then Lecturer at the University of Fribourg and Research Professor (2010-2016) at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (Geneva) where he led a research project on “minority” conflicts in the Middle East. Since September 2017, Dr Tejel is Adjunct Professor at the University of Neuchâtel (History Department) where he leads a research programme funded by the European Research Council (ERC, Consolidator Grant) titled ‘Towards a Decentred History of the Middle East: Transborder Spaces, Circulations, and Frontier Effects in the Middle East (1920-1946)’.. Full details	Add event
13 February 2019	15:30	Seminar Series - 'Religious decline in the West: Unravelling age, period and cohort effects' Old people tend to be more religious than young people, and Western societies today are less religious than they were in the past. Scholars disagree, though, about what’s changing and why.. Full details	Add event
12 February 2019	17:30	Professor Aaron Hughes (University of Rochester, NY) presents the talk "The Shi'a are the Jews of our Umma: Rethinking Alterity in Medieval Islam" Aaron W. Hughes is the Philip S. Bernstein Chair in the Dept. of Religion and Classics at the University of Rochester, NY. He specializes in the intersection of Jews and Muslims from late antiquity to the present. Recent books include Shared Identities: Medieval and Modern Imaginings of Judeo-Islam (Oxford 2017) and Muslim and Jew: Origins, Growth, Resentment (Routledge, 2019). Full details	Add event
6 February 2019	17:15	Dr Nora Parr (SOAS, London) presents "How do you say 'trauma' in Arabic? When critical terms cross uneven contexts" Nora Parr is OWRI/AHRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow with Creative Multilingualism’s Strand 5 on World Literature. She teaches Arabic Literature and Palestine Studies at SOAS, University of London.. Full details	Add event
30 January 2019	11:30	Dr Rana Jawad (University of Bath) presents "Critical Policy Analysis and Social Protection in the Global South: A view from the MENA Region" Rana Jawad is a senior lecturer in social policy at the University of Bath. She is founder and convenor of the MENA social policy network. She has extensive academic and policy-oriented research expertise on social policy issues in the MENA region focusing in particular on the institutional and political analysis of welfare systems there. In addition, she has an interest in current debates around social protection and non-contributory social assistance programmes, as well as the wider influence of religion on social policy. Full details	Add event
24 January 2019	17:30	Miko Peled, renowned author and human rights activist, presents "Justice, Freedom and Equality, the Keys for Peace in Palestine" Miko Peled is the author of "The General's Son: Journey of an Israeli in Palestine", an epilogue about a self-reflective journey that changed his life and his long-held assumptions about Palestinians. His journey began following a family tragedy and the death of his niece Smadar by a Palestinian suicide bomber. In this book, Miko talks about his fears and concerns when deciding to meet Palestinians for the first time. His honest account reflects the emotional dilemmas he went through that led to reconsidering his beliefs about the other.. Full details	Add event
23 January 2019	17:15	Dr Estella Carpi (University College London) presents "From Livelihoods to Leisure: Upending Refugee Self-Reliance and Urban Humanitarianism in Lebanon" Estella Carpi is a Research Associate in the Migration Research Unit, Department of Geography (University College London). She is currently working on southern-led humanitarian responses to displacement from Syria (ERC project no. 541123). She received her PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Sydney (Australia), researching humanitarianism in Lebanon. She has been working on humanitarian aid provision, welfare, forced migration and identity politics for several institutions in Egypt, Lebanon, and the United Arab Emirates. Full details	Add event
17 January 2019	14:00	IAIS Gulf Seminar: Short films from the Gulf: screenings with Sheyma Buali We are pleased to welcome Sheyma Buali, who will be leading the session. Sheyma works across the spectrum of cultural production and film exhibition and is currently Director of the BBC Arabic Festival and Head Programmer of the London Palestine Film Festival. Prior to this, as an arts and film journalist, Sheyma was Commissioning Editor for Ibraaz channel and Creative Time Reports and Culture Correspondent for Asharq AlAwsat.. Full details	Add event
15 January 2019	15:00	40 years on, what should we think about the Revolution of 1979 in Iran? With Some Thoughts on Implications in the Present Tea and coffee will be served from 14:45 in the IAIS Common Room. Everyone is very welcome to attend. Full details	Add event
12 December 2018	17:15	Professor Neha Vora (Lafayette College) presents "American Universities, Liberalism and Transnational Qatar" Neha Vora is Associate Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology & Sociology at Lafayette College. Her research and teaching interests include migration, citizenship, higher education, South Asian and Muslim diasporas, gender, liberalism, political economy, and the state, in the Arabian Peninsula region and in the United States. She is the author of Impossible Citizens: Dubai’s Indian Diaspora (Duke University Press, 2013) and Teach for Arabia: American Universities, Liberalism, and Transnational Qatar (Stanford University Press, 2018). Full details	Add event
6 December 2018	17:15	Dr Carlos Cabrera-Tejedor (Oxford University) presents "The Seville Islamic Harbor" Carlos has a diverse and multi-disciplinary background. He started as a conservator, completing two bachelor's degrees, one in Fine Arts Restoration and the other in Archaeological Conservation. He has also completed a Master of Arts degree in Nautical Archaeology from Texas A&M University and worked as a project and research associate at the Institute of Nautical Archaeology (INA). Full details	Add event
4 December 2018	15:30	Seminar Series - 'From riot police to tweets: How world leaders use social media during contentious politics' Elite communication has the potential to influence public opinion, civil conflict, and diplomatic interactions. However, a comparative study of leaders' public rhetoric has proven elusive due to the difficulties of developing comparable measures across countries and over time. The advent of social media sites, and its widespread adoption by world leaders, offers a unique new source of data to overcome these challenges. Full details	Add event
14 November 2018	15:30	Seminar Series - 'Connected networks, wellbeing and the power of representation: Qualitative and quantitative evidence from Facebook and social network data' Full details	Add event
15 October 2018	11:00	The Tyranny of Distance: Assessing and Explaining the Apparent Decline in U.S. Military Performance This is the first in a series of Q-Step Seminar talks for Autumn 2018. The talk will address the growing sense that U.S. military effectiveness has been on the wane in recent years. Is this the case? If so, what are the reasons for the decay in American combat performance?. Full details	Add event
23 March 2018	13:00	Centre for the Study of Islam Research Seminar "Centre and Periphery in Muslim Minority Studies" We welcome Professor Philipp Bruckmayr from the University of Vienna. Professor Bruckmayr works on Muslim communities in the Indian subcontinent and East Asia. His work covers intellectual history, Muslim community relations, and Muslims living in minority contexts. He was ERASMUS fellow here in Exeter earlier this term, and we welcome him back for this workshop. Full details	Add event
30 November 2017	17:15	Visiting speaker: Shir Hever The Privatisation of Israeli Security. Full details	Add event
29 November 2017	17:15	Visiting speaker: Alexandra Hyde The present tense of Afghanistan: British Army wives, the combat zone and the home. Full details	Add event
21 November 2017	17:15	Visiting speaker: Saeed ZarrabiI-Zadeh Sufism: An Outsider Perspective.. Full details	Add event
13 October 2017	13:30	Current PhD and Post-Doctoral Research in the Centre for Islamic Archaeology You are very welcome to come and listen to a number of current IAIS PhD and Research Fellows who will be giving presentations on their research. Full details	Add event
15 October 2014	17:15	Christian-Muslim relations in the Inquisition Malta 1605 In 1605 a Moorish slave of the Knights of St. John, Sellem Bin al-Sheikh Mansur, was put on trial by the Roman Inquisition on Malta accused of practising magic among the Christians on the island. The Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded project Magic in Malta, 1605 examines this one magic trial in detail, and will use the evidence contained therein to open up a myriad of aspects of life in early-modern Malta, including the place of slaves, Christian-Muslim relations, and the roles of magic and of the Inquisition. In this lecture the project team Professor Dionisius A. Agius, Dr Catherine Rider and Dr Alex Mallett will present the background to the project, including the island's communities (Christians and slaves) at the time, the trial document, and aspects of popular magic.. Full details	Add event
18 March 2014	5:15	Prof Hans Diaber The growing interest of the Arabs in Arabic translations from Greek since the 8th century has been interpreted as a sign of humanism in Islam. This is comparable to humanists in Europe who, since the 14th century, considered the Greek and Latin literature the foundation of spiritual and moral education. We will have to address the question of whether a similar ideal of education has been developed in harmony with religion in the Islamic cultural sphere. The perceived tension between the humanists of antiquity and Christianity has a parallel in the tensions between Islamic religiosity and a rational Islamic worldview. However, there are past and present approaches to developing an educational ideal, which is comparable to the European concept of a moral shaping of the individual.. Full details	Add event
11 March 2014	17:15	Mark Fitzpatrick (IISS ) With the implementation details having been worked out for the interim nuclear deal that Iran and the six major powers reached in late November, Irans enrichment capability is capped for the next six months and Iran is experiencing limited sanctions relief for the first time in many years. The mood is optimistic in Iran and in most other concerned countries with two notable exceptions among Irans most sceptical antagonists. Mark Fitzpatrick will offer his assessment of the interim deal and of the prospects for a comprehensive agreement being reached during the 6-month period.. Full details	Add event
26 February 2014	17:15	Dr Maha Yamani ( Independant Researcher) The terms 'Muslim', 'Islamic', and 'Shariah' law have become intermixed, and often used to cover a wide area of rules some religious but others not. These rules have an Islamic origin but have since been restructured and adapted into an expansive field of laws spanning the many diverse cultures, ethnic groups, and geographical areas that now represent the Muslim religion. I sometimes encounter questions along the lines of "What is your opinion regarding the position of women under Muslim law?" Or I face an inquiry regarding "The interpretation of (a specific case) under 'Shari'ah' law"Through the use of examples, my talk will illustrate the way in which 'Muslim' laws have been moulded and shaped by the people who use them. Full details	Add event
19 February 2014	17:00	Dr Uri Davis Al-Quds University Jerusalem After defining the key terms of his Paper (What is Palestine?; What is political-Zionism?; What are Zionist Institutions?; What is ethnic cleansing?; What is apartheid?) and after considering the analogies and the specificities of Israeli apartheid versus past South African apartheid as well as the political implication of declaring Israel an apartheid state under international law - the Paper discusses future dangers and ambiguities underpinning the partial diplomatic victory of the PLO/State of Palestine in the UN and concludes that the next best step for Palestine in the UN could very well be: pressing the UNGA to reduce the status of Israel from a Full-Member state to an Observer-Member state so longs as the core of strategic Israeli apartheid legislation is not dismantled, and in this connection declare the borders of Observer-Member "Jewish" (or better Hebrew) state to be the borders designated in UNGA Resolution 181(ii) of 1947. Full details	Add event
5 February 2014	17:00	Dominic Casciani ( Home Affairs Correspondent. BBC News) There has long been a tense debate about how the British news media goes about reporting counter-terrorism, security and related issues. BBC News home affairs correspondent Dominic Casciani explains how he and his colleagues go about their job - and the practical and editorial challenges they face.The talk will give you an insight into how modern 24-hour news organisations operate from the moment that the police make an arrest to the point that a jury reaches a verdict.Dominic will explore some of the major issues that organisations like the BBC grapple with these major stories - and how the BBC goes about trying to unpeel their many layers.Dominic Casciani has covered terrorism and security for BBC News for a decade on TV, Radio and Online.In 2011 he won a landmark court battle with the government to film the story of a terrorism suspect held for eight years without trial. In 2013 he was one of a just a few journalists to witness the deportation of Abu Qatada to Jordan. Full details	Add event
30 January 2014	17:00	Prof. Ghanim al-Najjar 20 years ago, the world started a political discourse of human rights with the World Conference on Human rights held in June 1993 in Vienna. Hopes were high that the world was entering a new era, in which human dignity would be the main catalyst of world international affairs and path.Abstract: 20 years ago, the world started a political discourse of human rights with the World Conference on Human rights held in June 1993 in Vienna. Hopes were high that the world was entering a new era, in which human dignity would be the main catalyst of world international affairs and relations. The question now is not whether those hopes were genuine, but whether any progress has been made in this path. How human rights dynamics are featured in the international scene, and do human rights matter at all in international, regional, and national decision making? This question is especially relevant in the so-called "empty quarter" of democracy, i.e. the Middle East. Full details	Add event
29 January 2014	17:15	Prof Guy Standing - The Global Precariat - Why it is the new dangerous class Globalisation and the neo-liberal economic policies underpinning it have spawned a global class structure, in which the precariat is the new mass class. It consists of millions living in insecurity, without occupational identities, without control of their lives, without secure income and losing rights. Many are still unaware that they are in it or close to being in it. But millions do recognise themselves as in it. The precariat is not yet a class-for-itself. Indeed, it is almost at war with itself. But that is changing as the anxiety, alienation, anomie and anger are growing everywhere.This presentation will draw on a recent book to consider what may happen as the precariat swells. Governments have yet to understand; a politics of inferno is building up, against which a new politics of paradise is urgently required.. Full details	Add event
22 January 2014	17:15	Dr Laurent Bonnefoy - The Yemini Revolution and the Salafis Since 2011, Yemen has engaged in a revolutionary process whose outcomes remain unknown but which has clearly transformed the political landscape. Some Salafis have seized the opportunity to break with their quietist past and to form a political party: Ittihad al-Rashad. They are now appearing as potential competitors of the Muslim Brotherhood. Other Salafis have resisted such a move towards overt politicization and have long advocated the status-quo. This lecture will analyse the debates unfolding in the Salafi field and will highlight how these are meaningful if one wants to understand contemporary dynamics in Yemen.Contactz.jennings@exeter.ac.uk. Full details	Add event
15 January 2014	17:15	Dr Ghada Karmi This talk will deal with the history and demography of Muslims in Britain, when and why they came and who they are. It will discuss the issue of integration and assimilation of this community within British society and the obstacles to it. Full details	Add event
17 December 2013	17:15	The Yemeni revolution and the Salafis. Since 2011, Yemen has engaged in a revolutionary process whose outcomes remain unknown but which has clearly transformed the political landscape. Some Salafis have seized the opportunity to break with their quietist past and to form a political party: Ittihad al-Rashad. They are now appearing as potential competitors of the Muslim Brotherhood. Other Salafis have resisted such a move towards overt politicization and have long advocated the status-quo. This lecture will analyse the debates unfolding in the Salafi field and will highlight how these are meaningful if one wants to understand contemporary dynamics in Yemen.Contactz.jennings@exeter.ac.uk. Full details	Add event
11 December 2013	17:15	Prof Greg Barton from Monash University (Australia) In the wake of the bombing in Bali on October 12, 2002, Southeast Asia in general and Indonesia in particular began to be described as terrorisms second front. Within Indonesia, however, there was considerable scepticism. Many believed that jihadi salafism had very little support in Indonesia, a view shared by many long term observers of the country. Indonesian Islam, it was said, is different. Developments over the past decade have shown both positions to be mistaken. The level of threat posed by jihadi salafist terrorism in Indonesia and Southeast Asia is clearly nothing like that being experienced in South Asia, Afghanistan, the Middle East and North Africa. Nevertheless, Indonesia faces a remarkably resilient and persistent challenge from home-grown terrorism. With over 830 arrests, most of them leading to successful prosecutions, the Indonesian authorities have risen to the challenge of dealing with a problem far more extensive and enduring than most would have predicted. In hindsight it is clear that jihadi salafism has deep roots in Indonesian society being a product of social movements that pre-date Indonesian independence. Whilst it is true that such radical movements have always been the exception to the rule sometimes, as with the Darul Islam movement of the 1950s, the exception is very significant. At the same time, global developments have transformed the nature and expression of jihadi salafism in Indonesia. And whilst Indonesian authorities have become skilful in responding to the technical challenges this represents a more comprehensive response within the civil sphere is required to properly address this low level but pernicious problem.. Full details	Add event
4 December 2013	17:15	Dr. Frank Foley (Kings College, London) Counter-Terrorist Operations in Britain and France: Societal Norms, Strategy and Community Though Britain and France have faced a similar terrorist threat since September 11 2001, they have often responded in different ways to the challenges it posed. This seminar discusses Frank Foleys new book on British and French responses to Islamist terrorism. Dr Foley has interviewed almost 40 counter-terrorism officials in the two countries. He will discuss the different approaches that the British and French governments have taken to counter-terrorist operations, outlining how the two countries different historical experiences and societal norms have shaped their responses to Islamist terrorism. Full details	Add event
27 November 2013	17:15	Dr. Thomas Hegghammer (Norwegian Defence Research Establishment, Oslo What do jihadis do when they don't fight? Why do hunted militants spend precious time reading poetry and interpreting each others dreams? And why is the epithet he who weeps a badge of honour in al-Qaida? We know much about the military activities and ideological views of jihadis, but little about their socio-cultural practices. This talk will take a closer look at daily life inside militant Islamist groups and reflect on what it tells us about jihadism in particular and clandestine activism in general.. Full details	Add event
20 November 2013	17:15	Dr. Allen Fromherz (Georgia State University, Atlanta) Rather seeing oil as the main driver of Qatari policy and governance, this presentation focuses on the internal social dynamics of this small, increasingly influential, Gulf state. Although Qatari has a feisty international image, supporting the Muslim Brotherhood and financing, Al-Jazeera, the ruling section of the Al-Thani family also considers internal pressures of Qatari nationals in the context of extreme modernization and change. This presentation examines how internal social structures, not simply the whim of the ruler or the demands and distortions of the oil market, must be considered to understand Qatar's unique place in the Gulf and the World. Full details	Add event
6 November 2013	17:15	Dr Toby Matthiesen :The Gulf States and the Arab Uprisings: Counter-Revolution and Sectarianism When faced with rising political challenges in early 2011, the Gulf states -- Bahrain and Saudi Arabia in particular -- mobilised sectarianism in order to suppress domestic calls for reform, a strategy that I analyze in my recent book Sectarian Gulf: Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and the Arab Spring that Wasn't.Following on from the sectarian logic, and by a desire to weaken Iran and its allies, the Gulf states became the key backers of the opposition in the Syrian civil war. At the same time, however, they spearheaded counter-revolutionary efforts across the region, most prominently in Egypt. During this talk I will explore how the internal political dynamics of the Gulf states, and the growing demands for reform, determined the different reactions by Gulf governments both at home and abroad, a reaction that is shaping the regional fallouts from the Arab Uprisings.. Full details	Add event
30 October 2013	17:15	Towards a history of the Qur'anic Codex in Umayyad times According to the Muslim tradition, the text of the Qurn was written down at the latest under the reign of the caliph Uthmn (644-656 AD). When the Umayyads seized power in 660 AD, its written transmission was at its very beginning. Discoveries made during the last decades enable us to retrace the way in which the text itself and its physical appearance deeply modified in Umayyad times (660-750 AD). The manuscript evidence combined with the sources suggests a direct involvement of the rulers in these changes. It also opens new avenues of research about the conditions under which the text was transmitted. Full details	Add event
23 October 2013	17:15	Social Networking during the 'Age of the Beloveds': Parties, Poetry, and Patronage. Parties (Meclis) both as idealized in poetry and as performed at all levels of Ottoman society as a gathering for sociable enjoyment is central to visualizing the structure and sense of Ottoman poetry. The actual meclis was the material representation of networks of mutual support among bonded individuals. Symmetrical social and emotional bonding between actors on different levels of power, as scripted and rehearsed in the poetry and embodied in the meclis, has an economic as well as a social dimension. Full details	Add event
16 October 2013	17:15	Mali: Another War on Terror? From the beginning until now, there have been many ambiguities on what the challenges of Mali's crisis are. The French approach, paradoxically, has more to do with liberal interventionism than a copy/cut of technics used in other wars on terror. Elections in Mali, celebrated as a strategic breakthrough, may appear as an ambivalent progress. While the security stakes are getting more regional, there is a sense that statu quo more than aggiornamento is still on the top of the agenda for Malian political elites.. Full details	Add event
15 July 2013	12:30	IAIS Graduation Reception Drinks The Institute is holding a special reception in the IAIS Common Room for graduating students and their families (and IAIS staff) on Monday 15th July 12.30 2.30 pm. The time is chosen to accommodate graduates from the morning ceremony and graduands awaiting the afternoon ceremony. Drinks will bubble, and Middle Eastern canapes will be served so do come and join us, celebrate your success and say au revoir (we hope to see you back at the Institute)! Unfortunately this event is for staff, students and family members only, and is not open to the general public. Full details	Add event
30 March 2013		(AHRC) Classical Persian Poetry & poets: The Timurid & Turkmen Periods - Dr Leonard Lewisohn The workshop focuses on the life, works and thought of all major and some of the minor poets who flourished during in the late Mongol, Timurid and Trkmen periods (roughly the 14th-15th centuries) when most the models of classical Persian poetry were perfected, and during which many major Persian poets flourished. Participants will discuss and revisit the quite different conclusions regarding the decadence or deviance of the poets of this period that scholars have reached. Some of issues raised by the speakers will include: intertextuality in Persian poetry; bachannalian and wine symbolism; eroticism and doctrines of love; Ibn Arabis theomonism; development of poetic genres; and the politics of patronage on Persian poetry.. Full details	Add event
26 March 2013	17:15	Syria's Islamists: re-construction through militarisation - Dr Thomas Pierret Dr. Pierret earned his PhD in Political and Social Sciences at Sciences Po Paris and the Catholic University of Louvain (2009), funded by the Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique (Belgium).He received his License in Modern History from the University of Lige (2001), his MA in International Politics from the Free University of Brussels (2002), and his MA in Comparative Politics (Muslim world) from Sciences Po Paris (2003).He attended a year-long intensive advanced Arabic language course at the French Institute of Damascus (2003-4).In 2010, he was a postdoctoral research associate at Princeton University, Department of Near Eastern Studies.In 2011, he was a visiting fellow at the Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin. Full details	Add event
20 March 2013	17:15	CANCELLED Persian Poems: The gestation of a book - Bruce Wannell and Robert Maxwell CANCELLED due to unforeseen circumstances; sincere apologies: Bruce Wannell (traveller and linguist) and Robert Maxwell (poet) will introduce their new parallel text translation of Persian poems. Full details	Add event
13 March 2013	17:15	Islam in Europe: Hospitality, Migrancy and Sovereignty - Professor Meyda Yegenoglu Meyda Yegenoglu is a professor of Cultural Studies at Bilgi University, Istanbul-Turkey. She has held visiting appointments at Columbia University, Oberlin College, Rutgers University, New York University, University of Vienna and Oxford University. She is the author of Colonial Fantasies; Towards a Feminist Reading of Orientalism (Cambridge University Press,1998). She has numerous essays published in various journals and edited volumes such as Feminist Postcolonial Theory; Postcolonialism, Feminism and Religious Discourse; Nineteenth Century Literature Criticism; Postmodern Culture; Race and Ethnic Relations; Culture and Religion; Inscriptions; Religion and Gender; Handbook of Contemporary Social and Political Theory; State, Religion and Secularization; Feminism and Hospitality; Toplum ve Bilim; Defter; and Dou-Bat. Her latest book Islam, Migrancy, and Hospitality in Europe has recently come out. Full details	Add event
8 March 2013	17:15	CANCELLED Muslims in Britain - Not 'People Like Us'? Dr Ghada Karmi CANCELLED due to unforeseen circumstances.. Full details	Add event
6 March 2013	17:15	Pakistan as a Political Idea, Dr Faisal Devji Dr Faisal Devji is University Reader in Modern South Asian History. He has held faculty positions at the New School in New York, Yale University and the University of Chicago, from where he also received his PhD in Intellectual History. Devji was Junior Fellow at the Society of Fellows, Harvard University, and Head of Graduate Studies at the Institute of Ismaili Studies in London, from where he directed post-graduate courses in the Near East and Central Asia. He sits on the editorial board of the journal Public Culture. Full details	Add event
28 February 2013	17:15	Mona Siddiqui - Reflections on Jesus in Christian - Muslim Encounter Mona Siddiqui joined the University of Edinburghs Divinity school in December 2011 as the first Muslim chair in Islamic and Interreligious Studies. Prior to this she was Professor of Islamic Studies at Glasgow University for 15 years where she directed the Centre for the Study of Islam. Her research areas are primarily in the field of Islamic jurisprudence and Christian-Muslim relations. Amongst her publications are Christians, Muslims and Jesus (Yale University Press, 2013), The Good Muslim: Reflections on Classical Islamic Law and Theology (Cambridge University Press, 2012), The Routledge Reader in Christian-Muslim Relations, (Routledge 2012) How to read the Quran (Granta 2007) as well as numerous articles and think pieces. She currently holds a visiting professorship at the universities of Utrecht and Tilburg and is an associate scholar at Georgetown University's Berkley Centre for Religion, Peace and World Affairs. In her public work she engages on issues of faith and ethics in society as a well known public intellectual. Professor Siddiqui is a regular commentator in print and broadcasting media, a frequent contributor to Thought for the day for BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio Scotland and chairs the BBCs Religious Advisory Committee. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Royal Society of Arts and an honorary fellow of the Royal Incorporation of Scottish Architects in recognition of her public work in the UK. In 2011 she was awarded an Order of the British Empire (OBE) for her contribution to interfaith services. She holds 3 honorary doctorates and currently serves as Assistant Principal for Religion and Society at Edinburgh University.. Full details	Add event
20 February 2013	17:15	Iran and the West : Slaying the Demons, Edward Chaplin As international tension builds again over Iran's alleged drive for a nuclear weapon, former diplomat Edward Chaplin looks at the prospects for a peaceful resolution which might finally allow the normalisation of relations between Iran and the international community. He argues that such an outcome requires negotiations going well beyond the nuclear issue, and the rethinking by both Iran and the West of long held assumptions about each others' policies and motives. Full details	Add event
8 February 2013	17:15	Return of a King. The Battle for Afghanistan, William Dalrymple William Dalrymple is the bestselling author of In Xanadu, City of Djinns, From the Holy Mountain, The Age of Kali, White Mughals, The Last Mughal and, most recently, Nine Lives. He has won the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award, the Sunday Times Young British Writer of the Year Award, the French Prix dAstrolabe, the Wolfson Prize for History, the Scottish Book of the Year Award, the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize, the Asia House Award for Asian Literature, the Vodafone Crossword Award and has three times been long listed for the Samuel Johnson Prize. In 2012 he was appointed Whitney J. Oates Visiting Fellow in Humanities at Princeton University. He lives with his wife and three children on a farm outside Delhi. Full details	Add event
6 February 2013	17:15	Revolutions and Elite Factionalism in Egypt and Bahrain - Dr Laurence Louer Laurence Louer is Research Fellow at CERI/SciencesPo in Paris. She has served as a permanent consultant for the Policy Planning Department of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs (CAP ) since 2004 and as co-editor-in-chief of Critique internationale since 2006. Her research focuses on the politics of identity and ethnicity in the Middle East. Full details	Add event
30 January 2013	17:15	Peace in Turkey, Dr Tim Jacoby After graduating in History and working as a school teacher in Turkey and Nigeria, Dr Tim Jacoby won an Economic and Social Research Council scholarship for a MA in International Conflict Analysis at the University of Kent. From 1999 to 2003, he then completed his PhD and an Economic and Social Research Council Post-Doctoral Fellowship in the Department of Politics at the University of York. He joined the Institute for Development Policy & Management at the University of Manchester in 2003 where he is now Senior Lecturer in Conflict Studies. In 2009, he helped to found the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute at the University of Manchester. Tim Jacobys research initially focussed on state development in Turkey, but a particular interest in issues of minority identity and politics there has led him to study broader topics related to political violence, civil society, Islam, nationalism and post-conflict reconstruction.. Full details	Add event
23 January 2013	17:15	The Disease of Love.A Medical View of Infatuation in the Medieval Arab World. Between 1999 and 2001 Dr Karmi was an Associate Fellow at the Royal Institute of International Affairs, where she worked on a reconciliation project in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Most of her recent research has been on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and has appeared widely on the British and Arab media and also contributes articles on Middle Eastern subjects to the Arabic and British press.. Full details	Add event
10 December 2012	17:15	Dr Walid Saleh "The Hashiya as Intellectual History: A Reassessment of the History of Islamic Religious thought" Walid Saleh was born in Colombia to immigrant Lebanese parents, who returned to the Middle East so the children would learn Arabic. Dr. Salehs undergraduate degree was at the American University of Beirut, in Arabic literature and language. In addition to his doctoral studies at Yale University in Islamic Studies, where he studied the Quran and its exegesis in medieval Islamic Civilization, Dr. Saleh also studied at Hamburg University. He had fellowships from the NEH, the American Research Center in Cairo, and the Kluge Center at the Library of Congress. He was also awarded a three year fellowship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Full details	Add event
6 December 2012	17:00	Jerusalem - Story of a Contested City Ghada Karmi is an honorary research fellow and an assistant lecturer at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies. Between 1999 and 2001 she was an Associate Fellow at the Royal Institute of International Affairs, London, where she worked on a reconciliation project in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Most of her recent research has been on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and has appeared widely on the British and Arab media and also contributes articles on Middle Eastern subjects to the Arabic and British press. She is a Palestinian born in Jerusalem, but spent most of her life in Britain. Full details	Add event
5 December 2012	17:15	Maritime Cultural Heritage - Is it important? A perspective from the Gulf Dr Lucy Blue is a senior lecture and director of the Centre for Maritime Archaeology at the University of Southampton. Dr Blue has worked as a maritime archaeologist for over twenty years and her research is largely focused around the eastern Mediterranean, Red Sea, Indian Ocean and the Arabian Gulf where she specialises in harbour archaeology, maritime ethnography, and maritime trade particularly through the lens of shipwreck archaeology and coastal landscapes. Besides co-directing a range of maritime archaeological projects in Egypt, India, Montenegro and the UAE, she has recently been engaged in developing capacity for maritime archaeology and coastal heritage in the Arab region (MAST Maritime Archaeological Stewardship Trust). Dr Blue is also passionate about communicating archaeology to wider audiences and is an active member, former chair and vice president of the Nautical Archaeology Society and was a presenter on the BBC series Oceans. Full details	Add event
28 November 2012	17:15	Persian influence on Sufi poetry in India and Pakistan Christopher Shackle FBA is Emeritus Professor of Modern Languages of South Asia at SOAS, University of London. He originally graduated in Persian from the University of Oxford and has always maintained an interest in the Persian literature of India. Besides South Asian languages and literatures, particularly Panjabi and Urdu, the fields of his research have included Sikhism as well as Sufism in South Asia. His recent publications include Attar and the Persian Sufi Tradition (ed. with Leonard Lewisohn, 2006), besides a forthcoming translation of the Sufi lyrics of Bullhe Shah (2013). He is currently writing a study of two nineteenth-century Panjabi Sufi poets.. Full details	Add event
21 November 2012	17:15	CANCELLED Religious Freedom in Britain Today: The Boundaries Between Freedom of Conscience in Religion and Secularism Due to the torrential rain causing transportation difficulties, Mehri Niknam is unable to make tonight's seminar and it has therefore had to be CANCELLED. It will be readvertised if it is possible to reschedule. Sincere apologies. Full details	Add event
14 November 2012	17:15	Teaching the Israeli-Palestinian conflict - problems and rewards Between 1999 and 2001 Dr Karmi was an Associate Fellow at the Royal Institute of International Affairs, where she worked on a reconciliation project in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Most of her recent research has been on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and has appeared widely on the British and Arab media and also contributes articles on Middle Eastern subjects to the Arabic and British press.. Full details	Add event
14 November 2012	13:00	Women in the Qur an Dr Samira Alkhawaldeh is a Joint Assistant Professor of Contemporary Islamic Thought and Comparative Literature at the University of Jordan in Amman. She is actively involved in Muslim women's affairs. She was on the board of the National Committee of the Jordanian Womens Federation and has represented the Jordanian government and NGOs at several international women conferences, including Beijing , Cairo and Tehran.She will be speaking on the changing of gender roles in the Quran. Full details	Add event
9 November 2012	17:15	Sorani is a Dialiect with an Army and a Parliament: Political and Ideological Conflicts over the Officialization of the Kurdish Language in Iraq Dr. Amir Hassanpour has taught communications and Middle Eastern studies at the University of Windsor, Concordia University and the University of Toronto. He is author of Nationalism and Language in Kurdistan, 1918-1985 (1992), and has contributed numerous articles on the Kurdish language and media to academic journals and reference works including Encyclopedia of Modern Asia, The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Encyclopedia of Modern Middle East, Encyclopedia of Diasporas, Encyclopedia of Genocide, and Crimes Against Humanity. His most recent work is co-editing and contributing to the International Journal of the Sociology of Language (Issue 217, 2012 on Kurdish). Full details	Add event
7 November 2012	17:15	An Imaginary Anthropology: The Western Perception Of Afghanistan Gilles Dorronsoro is professor of Political Sciences at the University Paris 1-Sorbonne. He is an expert on Afghanistan, Turkey, and South Asia. His research focuses on security and political development in Afghanistan, particularly the role of the International Security Assistance Force, the necessary steps for a viable government in Kabul, and the conditions necessary for withdrawal scenarios. Previously, he had been detached to the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace where he is still a non resident scholar. He taught at the Institute of Political Studies of Rennes. He also served as the scientific coordinator at the French Institute of Anatolian Studies in Istanbul, Turkey. He is the co-founder and editor of South Asian Multidisciplinary Academic Journal and the European Journal of Turkish Studies. He is the author of Revolution Unending: Afghanistan, 1979 to the Present (Columbia University Press, 2005), and La rvolution afghane, des communistes aux Taleban (Karthala Publishers 2000), and editor of La Turquie conteste. Rgime scuritaire et mobilisations sociales (Editions du CNRS, 2005). He recently published an article entitled Waiting for the Taliban in Afghanistan, available at: https://www.carnegieendowment.org/2012/09/20/waiting-for-taliban-in-afghanistan/dvkr. Full details	Add event
31 October 2012	17:15	RESCHEDULED - Teaching the Israeli-Palestinian conflict - problems and rewards Due to unforeseen circumstances this event has had to be cancelled and rescheduled to Wednesday the 14th of November at 17.15. Sincere apologies for the inconvenience. Full details	Add event
30 October 2012	10:00	Talking to Terrorists - A Discussion with General (Retd) Sir Paul Newton The College of Social Sciences and International Studies is offering an exciting opportunity for Politics and IAIS students who are interested in contemporary approaches to world security. Full details	Add event
29 October 2012	15:00	Talking to Terrorists - A Discussion with General (Retd) Sir Paul Newton The College of Social Sciences and International Studies is offering an exciting opportunity for Politics and IAIS students who are interested in contemporary approaches to world security. Full details	Add event
4 May 2012	17:00	A talk by Joseph Massad Followed by a film screening and Q&A with curator Alia Arasoughly -'The Spring of Young Palestinian Women Filmakers'. Full details	Add event
28 March 2012	17:15	In quest of Simorgh:a reading of The Conference of the Birds A talk by Dr Leili Anvar. Full details	Add event
15 March 2012	17:15	The reconstruction of the countryside in the Kurdistan region in Turkey A talk by Joost Jongerden. Full details	Add event
13 March 2012	17:15	Book Launch - Encountering Islam: Joseph Pitts: An English Slave in 17th Century Algiers and Mecca Author Paul Auchterlonie will be talking about his new book. Full details	Add event
7 March 2012	17:15	Why Middle East Studies Missed the Arab Spring The Institute of Arab & Islamic Studies is pleased to present a talk by Professor Gregory Gause. Full details	Add event
29 February 2012	17:15	Working as a linguist for the International Committee of the Red Cross: the inside story A talk by Liz Harris from the ICRC. Full details	Add event
22 February 2012	17:00	Hajj:Journey to the Heart of Islam - Exhibition at the British Museum A talk by Qaisar Khan - Project Curator at the British Museum. Full details	Add event
21 February 2012	18:30	Talk by Jerome Starkey - Times Afghanistan Correspondent A talk about his experiences in Afghanistan. Full details	Add event
20 February 2012	18:00	Iranian Film Festival Iranian Film Festival. Full details	Add event
1 February 2012	13:30	Central Asian Studies seminar series. Our first Central Asian Studies seminar series of the year will be:'Of national fathers and Russian elder brothers: conspiracy theories and political ideas in post-Soviet Central Asia'. Full details	Add event
26 January 2012	18:30	The Portrait of a Nation in Poetry and Music Concert by Prominent Kurdish Harpist Tara Jaff. Full details	Add event
26 January 2012	14:40	The Portrait of a Nation in Poetry and Music Workshop on Kurdish Poetry. Full details	Add event
25 January 2012	17:00	From Islamic to Contemporary? The visual Arts in the Arab World and the Missing Modernity A talk by Silvia Naef. Full details	Add event
18 January 2012	17:00	The Turkish carpet in Britain: The identity, material culture and meaning of an Islamic item A talk by Angela Sutton-Vane MRes. Full details	Add event
10 January 2012	17:00	Shirin Ebadi will be talking about her work in the fields of human rights and Islamic law Shirin Ebadi won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003, in recognition of her courageous work as a lawyer and human rights activist, defending in particular the rights of women, children, and critics of the Iranian regime.She trained as a lawyer in the time of the Shah, and served as a judge before the 1979 revolution (the first female judge ever appointed in Iran), but after the Islamic revolution was prevented from doing so by a ruling that women could not be judges. For many years she was unable to practice as a lawyer at all, but began to do so again in 1992. In the later 90s she represented several victims of injustice, including the families of Darioush Foruhar and Parvaneh Eskandari (murdered by members of the Ministry of Intelligence and Security). After the award of the Nobel prize in 2003, the Iranian regimes response was grudging (in November 2009 Dr Ebadi announced that the prize itself had been removed from a bank security box by regime officials while she was in London). She continued to defend victims of regime oppression, including members of the Bahai faith that the Iranian regime regard as apostates from Islam. In 2008 her offices were attacked and eventually closed down, and threats were made against her daughter, Nargess. But in the time of the Bush administration in the US, she also spoke out against talk of forcing regime change on Iran, and defended Irans right to a civil nuclear programme. At the time of the disputed elections of 2009 Dr Ebadi was outside Iran, and was advised not to return. Since then she has lived abroad, mainly in London. Full details	Add event
7 December 2011	17:15	The Invention of the Land of Israel Shlomo Sand studied history at the University of Tel Aviv and at the cole des hautes tudes en sciences sociales, in Paris. He currently teaches contemporary history at the University of Tel Aviv.. Full details	Add event
3 December 2011	9:00	Legacy of Rumi (d. 1273) in Later Islamic Philosophy and Poetry Various speakers. Full details	Add event
11 October 2011	17:15	Humanitarian Intervention: Lessons from the Past Two Decades Richard Caplan is Professor of International Relations and Official Fellow of Linacre College. He also serves as Director of the Centre for International Studies (CIS), University of Oxford. His principal research interests are concerned with international organisations and conflict management.. Full details	Add event