Events

Sep

24

Lecture

The Revolution Within: Islamic Media and the Struggle for a New Egypt with Yasmin Moll

Location:

STEPS 101

September 24, 2025, 4:30 - 5:30pm

This talk explores the social life of theology in relation to both Islamic television production and the 2011 Tahrir Square uprising. Based on fieldwork in the Cairo branch of the world’s first Islamic television channel, it traces the ways in which pious struggles over the…

Sep

30

Lecture

Islamic Religious Authority: Thinking about Continuity and Change with Ismail Fajrie Alatas

Location:

BI 108

September 30, 2025, 4:30 - 5:30pm

This talk explores the relations that make up the dynamic of continuity and change in Islamic religious authority. Drawing on Hannah Arendt’s theorization of authority along with historical and ethnographic cases from across the Muslim world, the talk identifies three core…

Nov

12

Lecture

Print and the Urdu Public: Newspapers and Islam in Colonial India with Megan Robb

Location:

STEPS 101

November 12, 2025, 4:30 - 5:30pm

This talk will focus on Robb's book Print and the Urdu Public, an analysis of the development of Urdu journalism in colonial India through a microstudy of the newspaper Madinah. The newspaper connected an anti-colonial voice that contested not only British…

College of
Arts and Sciences

Global Islamic Studies

Events

Sep

24

The Revolution Within: Islamic Media and the Struggle for a New Egypt with Yasmin Moll

Sep

30

Islamic Religious Authority: Thinking about Continuity and Change with Ismail Fajrie Alatas

Nov

12

Print and the Urdu Public: Newspapers and Islam in Colonial India with Megan Robb