The Muslim Materialities Lecture Series (MMLS) continues again this year. Please join us for a wonderful series of research talks!
Fall 2024
Oct 17, 3–5pm - MN3230 (CDRS) - Murad Mumtaz Khan, "Squirrels in a Plane Tree? Mughal Painting and Islamic Ontology" - Register. This event is being co-sponsored by the Department for the Study of Religion and the Department of Historical Studies at UTM.
Winter 2025
Jan 16, 12:30–2:30 pm - online (Zoom) - Timur Hammond, "Fluid Geographies: Water, Mediation, and Infrastructure in an Istanbul Shrine" - Register
Feb 6 - online - Anya King, "Leaves from the Garden: The Place of Aromatics in Early Islamic Culture" - Register
Feb 27 - MN3230 (CDRS) - Seema Golestaneh, "Unknowing of Memory: Sufi Thought and Building Amnesia in Iran" - Register
Mar 20 - online (Zoom) - Anna Bigelow, Material Encounters and the Aesthetics of Muslim Belonging" - Register
Oct 17. - Murad Mumtaz Khan: Squirrels in a Plane Tree? Mughal Painting and Islamic Ontology
Past Events: 2023-24 Muslim Materialities Lecture Series
The theme for this year's Muslim Materialities Lecture Series (MMLS) is Community, Material Culture, and Memory. Speakers will explore this topic from diverse methodological and theoretical perspectives.
All events take place 4:30-6pm in-person at UTM, unless otherwise stated below.
Schedule - Winter 2024
- Jan. 29 - online (Zoom) - Sana Chavoshian: Blood: Mothers and Martyrs of the Iran-Iraq War - Register
- Feb. 13 - MN 4207 - Babak Rahimi: 'It is a long way from Kerbela to Cavalry': Matthew Arnold's Medievalist ta'ziyeh - Register
- Mar. 7 - MN 4207 - Youshaa Patel: How to think about Muslim Difference: On Mimesis and Alterity in Islam - Register
- Mar. 14 - 3:30-5pm, MN 3230 (CDRS) - Teren Sevea: Saints, Relics and Fragments: Remembering Malay-Islamic Histories in Ruins - Register
- Mar. 21 - 3:30-5pm, MN 3230 (CDRS) - Frank J. Korom: Making Sense of Bawa - Register
- Mar. 28 - 12-1:30pm, online (Zoom) - Mohammad Nabeel Jafri: The Māḥauls of Oratory: Urdu Shiʿi Khiṭābat in Contemporary Karachi - Register
Jan. 29 - Sana Chavoshian: Blood: Mothers and Martyrs of the Iran-Iraq War
Feb. 13 - Babak Rahimi: 'It is a long way from Kerbela to Cavalry': Matthew Arnold's Medievalist ta'ziyeh
Mar. 7 - Youshaa Patel: How to think about Muslim Difference: On Mimesis and Alterity in Islam
Mar. 14 - Teren Sevea: Saints, Relics and Fragments: Remembering Malay-Islamic Histories in Ruins
Mar. 21 - Frank J. Korom: Making Sense of Bawa
Mar. 28 - Mohammad Nabeel Jafri: The Māḥauls of Oratory: Urdu Shiʿi Khiṭābat in Contemporary Karachi
Schedule - Fall 2023
Oct. 5 - Adam Bursi: Prophetic Pieces and Places: Relics and Sacred Spaces in Early Islam
Oct. 24 - co-sponsored with the Centre for South Asian Critical Humanities (CSACH) - Akbar Zaidi: Muslim Identity, the Partition of India and the Making of Pakistan
Nov. 2 - Shenila Khoja-Moolji: Culinary Placemaking: Cookbooks as an Artifact of Displaced Shia Ismaili Muslim Women’s Lives