Muslim Studies Program News and Events January 1, 2022 Please share with other faculty, students, and community. All events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted.
Spring Opportunity for MSU Students
Upcoming events
Sponsored by the Muslim Studies Program
NOTE: Date may need to be rescheduled.
Muslim Journeys Events
Coming in March/April
1) Special Collections event with Jyotsna Singh 2) Muslim Journeys: Sahar Khalifeh's My First and Only Love, presented by translator Aida Bamia
March 21, evening: Inaugural Malcolm and Ann Kerr Community Lecture in southeastern Michigan (event will be livestreamed), featuring Ann Kerr
Details to be announced.
Upcoming webinar:
Ehlimana Memisevic,"The Abode of Islam or the Abode of War (Dār al-Islām or Dār al-Ḥarb): Migrations of Bosnian Muslims in the 19th and 20th Century and Fatwas of the Ulama".
Date & Time: TBA
Ehlimana Memisevic is an assistant professor at the School of Law, University of Sarajevo. Ehlimana is currently a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Vanderbilt University.
Coming in April A lecture by Farina Mir
Associate Professor, University of Michigan
Farina Mir is a historian of colonial and postcolonial South Asia, with a particular interest in the social, cultural, and religious history of late-colonial north India. Mir’s current research is focused on Islam in late-colonial India. She is working on a book entitled, "Genres of Muslim Modernity: Being Muslim in Late-Colonial India, 1858-1947," which examines Urdu-language akhlaq—religious/literary texts on ethics—and how they reveal an important history of Islam and Muslims in South Asia.
Co-Sponsored Events
Jerusalem: Language, Policy, Politics and Identity
Camelia Suleiman, Associate Professor, MSU Department of Linguistics, Languages, and Cultures
March 18, time TBA Suleiman's current research interests are in the Sociolinguistics of Arabic and its contact with Hebrew. Her recent publications: The Politics of Arabic in Israel: A Sociolinguistic Analysis. University of Edinburgh Press. May 2017.
Upcoming events
(not organized by the Muslim Studies Program)
that might be of interest
Courses that may be of interest
Recap of events
Co-Sponsored by the Muslim Studies Program
The Ulama between Democracy and Autocracy
A Special Lecture by Dr. Usaama al-Azami, Lecturer in Contemporary Islamic Studies, University of Oxford Dr. Usaama al-Azami discusses his latest book which considers a relatively understudied dimension of the Arab revolutions of 2011: the role of prominent religious scholars. Dr. al-Azami is Departmental Lecturer in Contemporary Islamic Studies at the University of Oxford. He completed his BA in Arabic and Islamic Studies at Oxford, his seminary training at Al-Salam Institute, and his MA and PhD in Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University. He specializes in Islamic political thought. Organized by the Muslim Studies Program and cosponsored by the African Studies Center, Asian Studies Center, Department of History, Department of Religious Studies, and James Madison College. Nov 16 2021
Additional videos from the Muslim Studies Program may be viewed on our YouTube Channel.
Call for Abstracts
Call for Abstracts
Disability at the Intersection of History, Culture, Religion, Gender, and Health
Date: March 3-4, 2022
Place: Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI
This conference aims to encourage open discussion and better understanding as well as to breakdown stigma associated with disabilities. To accomplish that, the conference aims to generate inclusive dialogues and interdisciplinary interactions between academia, community organizers, social and legal activists, health care service/providers, and religious leaders. The conference will serve as a platform to foster collaboration between various groups engaged in understanding and improving disability conditions.
American Councils for International Education is hiring short-term Resident Directors for summer language immersion programs abroad for American high school and college students studying one of 15 critical languages including: Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bangla, Chinese, Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Portuguese, Punjabi, Russian, Swahili, Turkish, and Urdu. A full list of available Resident Director positions is available here.
We’re pleased to share that the Social Science Research Council has announced a new fellowship program, created in partnership with the Wallace Foundation, to fund a cohort of early-career researchers to help document the histories and organizational cultures of community arts organizations of color. Learn more and apply for the Arts Research with Communities of Color (ARCC) Fellowship: ow.ly/Way850Gsnhg
Global IDEAS Funding Opportunities Update
Funding opportunities with international dimensions curated by Global IDEAS in the weekly Funding Opportunities Update are now also available online as a searchable database. Anyone with an msu.edu email address has access to this new database.
New funding opportunities will continue to be disseminated through the weekly Global IDEAS Funding Opportunities Update email. Faculty, staff, and students can sign up to receive these emails on the Global IDEAS website.
Here are a few listings related to Muslim-majority countries:
Russell E. Lucas (2021) Public attitudes on peace with Israel in Jordanian politics, Middle Eastern Studies, 57:3, 469-484, DOI: 10.1080/00263206.2021.1898380
Riyad A. Shahjahan, "Decolonizing" curriculum and pedagogy: A comparative review across disciplines and global HE contexts. Link to the article.
