Events

Feb

13

Lecture

Asia’s Forgotten Sinographers: On Indian and Middle Eastern Understandings of China with Nile Green

Location:

STEPS 101

February 13, 2025, 4:30 - 6pm

How in modern times did Indian and Middle Eastern authors write about China? What enabled their ventures of inter-Asian understanding? And what mechanisms, barriers, and misapprehensions shaped the contours of these South and West Asian Sinographies? This lecture addresses these…

Feb

26

Lecture

AI and Muslim Piety on TikTok with Christoph Günther

Location:

STEPS 101

February 26, 2025, 4:30 - 6pm

The use of AI to create videos on social media is a growing phenomenon. This presentation examines the ways in which Muslim content creators utilize AI- generated texts and images to illustrate Qur'anic passages and hadith narrations, creating visually engaging content to…

Apr

2

Lecture

Warzone Ecology: What Birding in Iraq Tells Us About Environmental Justice with Bridget Guarasci

Location:

STEPS 101

April 2, 2025, 4:30 - 6pm

This talk develops the conceptual framework “warzone ecology” to analyze how war and the biosphere have been forged in inextricable relation in Iraq, thereby rejecting any facile distinctions between nature and culture in order to emphasize mutuality, intra-activity, and…

College of
Arts and Sciences

Global Islamic Studies

Events

Feb

13

Asia’s Forgotten Sinographers: On Indian and Middle Eastern Understandings of China with Nile Green

Feb

26

AI and Muslim Piety on TikTok with Christoph Günther

Apr

2

Warzone Ecology: What Birding in Iraq Tells Us About Environmental Justice with Bridget Guarasci