Muslim Studies Program News and Events January 15, 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
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".
Wednesday, February 2, 2:00 pm EST
Ehlimana Memisevic is an assistant professor at the School of Law, University of Sarajevo. Ehlimana is currently a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Vanderbilt University. Register in advance here.
Muslim Journeys Event
An Early Modern Anglo-Muslim Archive: Cross-Cultural Encounters and Identity Formations from the MSU Libraries' Stephen O. Murray and Keelung Hong Special Collections with Professor Jyotsna G. Singh (Department of English)
Friday, March 4, 11:30 ET on Zoom
Readings will be provided. Register here.
Coming in March: Inaugural Malcolm and Ann Kerr Community Lecture in southeastern Michigan (event will be livestreamed), featuring Ann Kerr
Details to be announced.
Muslim Journeys Event My First and Only Love
Book discussion with the novel's translator Dr. Aida Bamia (University of Florida)
Tuesday, March 22, 7pm hybrid
MSU Main Library Green Room 4th Floor and Zoom "Sahar Khalifeh is a first-class story-teller and, whatever your views on the political situation, she tells a first-class, albeit poignant story on love and loss in a period of war and oppression."
—The Modern Novel Register here.
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. Register here.
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
University of Michigan CSAS Lecture | Spatializing Islam during the Early Cold War: the ‘Ahmadi Question’ in the Munir Kayani Report and Pakistani Literature with Cara Cilano, Department of English, Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies, Michigan State University.
Friday, January 28, 4:30 PM Register here.
Courses that may be of interest
Recap of events
Co-Sponsored by the Muslim Studies Program
Navigating Shomoyscapes:
Temporality and Faculty Life in Dhaka, Bangladesh
A Webinar featuring Riyad Shahjahan (Associate Professor, College of Education, MSU) Tasnmi Ema (undergraduate student, Dept. of Anthropology, University of Dhaka) Nisharggo Niloy (alumnus, Dept. of Anthropology, University of Dhaka) Drawing on interviews and participant observations with 22 faculty in Dhaka, Bangladesh, we illuminate how academics experience, contest and manipulate their time(s) amid rapid socioeconomic transformations of Dhaka (a mega-city). We aim to decenter the Global North knowledge production about temporality in higher education literature by introducing and applying a culturally sustaining concept of ‘shomoyscapes.’ While the Bengali word ‘shomoy’ literally means ‘time,’ it goes beyond ‘clock time,’ and also refers to memories, present moments, feelings, a particular duration, and/or signifier for a temporal engagement. We demonstrate the efficacy of shomoyscapes by illuminating how faculty in Bangladesh experience various temporal forces, such as: a) traffic, b) university politics, and c) the future of others. We conclude with implications about the complex temporal constraints at work within an urban Global South context and a rapidly growing HE system in South Asia. Cosponsored by the Asian Studies Center, College of Education, and Global Studies in the Arts & Humanities.
Additional videos from the Muslim Studies Program may be viewed on our YouTube Channel.
Call for Chapters
Awards/Research Funding/Grants/Job Opportunities
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.
