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Religious Studies Program presents
Shahab Ahmed, Ph.D.
Junior Fellow, Harvard Society of Fellows
The Problem of the Satanic Verses and the Formation of
Islamic Orthodoxy
Wednesday, October 30, 2002
5: 10 - 6: 30 pm
Wellman 106
Shahab Ahmed completed his Ph.D. dissertation entitled “The
Satanic verses incident in the memory of the early Muslim community:
an analysis of the early Riwayahs and their Isnads
at Princeton University in 1999. He taught at the American University
in Cairo before becoming a junior fellow at the Harvard Society
of Fellows in 2000.
For more information contact Baki Tezcan: btezcan@ucdavis.edu
Religious Studies Program presents
Ebrahim Moosa
Associate Research Professor of Religion
Duke University
Challenges in re-thinking Islam
Tuesday, April 15, 2003; 4 pm
53A Olson Hall
Co-sponsored with Center for History, Society, and Culture; Davis
Humanities Institute; Department of Anthropology; Department of
History; Institute of Governmental Affairs
Professor Moosa has a PhD from the University of Cape Town. He
has worked extensively in the field of Islamic thought, rethinking
Islam in modernity and has met with foremost thinkers, activists
and role-players in the Muslim world. He also has had extensive
experience in collaborating in human rights causes in the anti-apartheid
struggle and he is considered to be among the foremost figures of
a new generation of Muslim thinkers.
For more information contact Baki Tezcan: btezcan@ucdavis.edu
"The Middle East/South Asia Studies
Research Cluster of the Center for History, Society and Culture
presents a symposium
Traversing Boundaries:
Comparative perspectives on South Asia and the Middle East
April 16, 2003, MEE ROOM
9:00-9:30 Suad Joseph, Professor of Anthropology and Women and
Gender Studies:
“Introduction to the Middle East/South Asia Working Group”
9:30-11:00 Panel I: Nationalist articulations
Baki Tezcan, Assistant Professor of History and Religious Studies:
“Nationalizing History, Historicizing the Nation: the deposition
of the Ottoman Sultan Osman II in 1622 and its representations in
the 17th and 20th centuries.”
Omnia El Shakry, Assistant Professor of History: “Anthropology’s
Indigenous Interlocutors: Race and Egyptian nationalism, 1922-1947.”
11:00-11:15 Coffee break
11:15-1:15 Panel II: Gender and Culture
Zeina Zaatari, Graduate Student of Anthropology, “Mothering
of Society: Women of South Lebanon.”
Suad Joseph, Professor of Anthropology and Women and Gender Studies,
“Familism and Feminism in the Arab world.”
1:15-2:30 Lunch will be served
2:30-4:00 Panel II: Transnationalism and Tradition
Smriti Srinivas, Associate Professor of Anthropology: “The
Visual and the Virtual: the Global Re-imagining of Faith in the
Sai Baba Movement.”
Nicole Ranganath, Ph.D.: “Wedding Women to Tradition: The
Politics of Marriage in the Indian Diaspora, 1947-2002.”
4:00-5:00 Roundtable Discussion: Beyond area studies
Jacob Olupona, Marisol de la Cadena, Sally McKee, Susan Mann, Nigel
Allen, Karen Shimakawa
For more information contact Omnia El Shakry or Smriti Srinivas
Center for History, Society, and
Culture presents:
Martina Rieker
American University in Cairo
Envisioning New Geographies after the Postcolonial World
Order
Monday, April 21, 2003
4 p.m., Andrews Conference Room, 2203 Social Science/Humanities
Building
“Conversations,” the
Socio-cultural Anthropology Discussion Series, presents
Riots in the Indian State of Gujarat
a lecture by
Ammu Joseph, feminist scholar from South Asia
April 21, 2003
For more information contact Smriti Srinivas: ssrinivas@ucdavis.edu
Religious Studies Program presents
Ahmad Dallal
Associate Professor of Middle Eastern History
Stanford University
An Islamic Enlightenment?
Traditions of reform in eighteenth century Islamic thought
Tuesday, April 22, 2003; 4 pm
53A Olson Hall
Co-sponsored with Center for History, Society, and Culture; Davis
Humanities Institute;
Department of Anthropology; Department of History; Institute of
Governmental Affairs
Professor Dallal was originally trained in engineering before moving
into graduate work in Middle Eastern languages and culture (Ph.D.
Columbia, 1990). He has become a prolific scholar with a book on
medieval Islamic astronomy, An Islamic response to Greek astronomy:
Kitâb ta’dîl hay’at al-aflâk of Sadr
al-Sharî'a (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1995), a forthcoming book
on the impact of the Enlightenment on Islamic culture, and an anthology,
Islam in the Modern World to be published in Arabic, English, and
French.
For more information contact Baki Tezcan: btezcan@ucdavis.edu
The Office of the Associate Executive
Vice Chancellor for Campus Community Relations presents
UC
Davis Teach-in: War on Iraq
a university-sponsored, campus-community event
Wednesday, April 23, 4-8:30
Freeborn Hall
Session One 4-5:30 chair: Naomi Janowitz
opening remarks: Rahim Reed, office of the provost
Clarence Walker, professor of history
Elias al-Rashmawi, local activist
Diane Amann, professor of law
questions 25 minutes
Session Two 5:30-7 chair: Raba Gunasekera
Baki Tezcan, assistant professor of history/religious studies
Suad Joseph, professor of anthropology
Tobias Wolff, professor of law
questions 30 minutes
Session Three 7-8:30 chair: Joan Cadden
Ayad al-Qazzaz, professor of sociology, Cal State Sacramento
Zeina Zaatari, graduate student
Lara Kiswani, undergraduate student
closing remarks: Patricia Daugherty, community activist
questions 25 minutes
For more information contact Jocelyn Sharlet: jcsharlet@ucdavis.edu
Religious Studies Program presents
Sherman Jackson
Associate Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies
University of Michigan
Black Orientalism: Genesis, Purpose, and Significance for
American
Monday, May 12, 2003; 4:30 pm
126 Voorhies Hall
Co-sponsored with Center for History, Society, and Culture; Davis
Humanities Institute; Department of Anthropology; Department of
History; Institute of Governmental Affairs
Professor Jackson received his Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania
in 1990. He is the author of Islamic Law and the State: The Constitutional
Jurisprudence of Shihâb al-Dîn al-Qarâfî
(Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1996) and On the Boundaries of Theological
Tolerance in Islam: Abû Hâmid al-Ghazâlî’s
Faysal al-Tafriqa Bayna al-Islam wa al-Zandaqa (Karachi: Oxford
University Press, 2002). Currently, he is working on a book tentatively
titled Islam and the Black American.
For more information contact Baki Tezcan: btezcan@ucdavis.edu
UC Davis History Department presents the 11th
annual Eugene Lunn Memorial Lecture
Coffee and the Conquest of the Night in the Early Modern
Era
by
Cemal Kafadar
Vehbi Koc Professor of Turkish Studies
Director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Harvard University
at the Davis University Club
on Thursday, May 15, 2003
8:00-9:30 PM (drinks at 7:30)
Cemal Kafadar is the author, among other works, of Between two
worlds: the construction of the Ottoman state (University of California,
1995), and a far-ranging scholar on Middle Eastern history.
For more information contact Baki Tezcan: btezcan@ucdavis.edu
Center for History, Society, and
Culture (CHSC) presents
The Missing Middle:
the Ottoman Empire and South Asia in World History, 1500-1900
CHSC World History cluster miniconference
Friday, May 16th, 2003
The Andrews Room, 2203 Social Science/Humanities Building
Recent comparative studies in World History by Kenneth Pomeranz,
Bin Wong, Andre Gunder Frank, and other scholars have argued that
Western Europe and China were in many ways on parallel paths until
the 19th century. However, such comparisons have tended to overlook
the regions of the Near East and South Asia, which were also home
to large, complex, and advanced empires. This conference hopes to
restore some balance by focusing on economic, political, and social
developments in the “missing middle.”
9:00 am: Welcome
John R. Hall, Director, CHSC, UC-Davis
9:30 am: Perspectives on the Ottoman Empire
Cemal Kafadar, Harvard University/History
Baki Tezcan, UC-Davis/History
11:00 am Break
11:15 Comments
Sally McKee, UC-Davis/History
Edmund Burke III, UC-Santa Cruz/History
Jack A. Goldstone, UC-Davis/Sociology, Presider
12:30-2 pm Lunch
2: 00 pm Perspectives on South Asia
John Richards, Duke University/History
Greg Clark, UC-Davis/Economics
3:30 pm Break
3:45 Comments
Bishnupriya Ghosh, UC-Davis/English
Jack A. Goldstone, UC-Davis/Sociology
Alan M. Taylor, UC-Davis/Economics, Presider
For more information contact Jack Goldstone: jagoldstone@ucdavis.edu
Special Lecture and Discussion
Fault Lines: Disasters and the Imagination of Democracy
Friday, June 6, 2003
4 p.m., Andrews Conference Room, 2203 Social Science/Humanities
Building
Shiv Visvanathan
Senior Fellow, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi
Visiting Professor, Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology,
Stanford University
Sponsored by the Department of Anthropology and the Center for
History, Society and Culture, University of California, Davis
For more information contact Smriti Srinivas: ssrinivas@ucdavis.edu
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