Join us for a conversation between Nomanul Haq (Dean, University of Management and Technology, Lahore) and Carl Ernst (Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Islamic studies, UNC Chapel Hill). The Kitāb al-Ṭawāsīn of the Sufi al-Ḥallāj (d. 922 CE) is a fascinating versified mystical treatise of a monumental and intriguing figure in the history of Sufism. Ḥallāj was mercilessly executed by […]

A talk by Amir Soltani, an Iranian-American writer, journalist, and human rights activist who has worked in business, media, nonprofits, and philanthropy. What is religious persecution? What forms does a modern inquisition take? Who enforces it and how? What is the role of language? What does it mean to be changed as a heretic, to […]

Lecture by Dr. Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger, Professor, Emory University Framed by recent interest in the agency of materiality, this talk analyzes, through a performative-ethnographic lens, possibilities created and questions raised by the cement images of Ravan, the antagonist of the Ramayana epic tradition, found throughout the central plains of the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh. […]

Gabe Huck and Theresa Kubasak will share historical analysis and ethnographic insights from their new book, Never Can I Write of Damascus: When Syria Became Our Home. Beginning in 1999, these educators and peace activists witnessed what severe UN sanctions did to every aspect of Iraqi life. When the US moved from sanctions to invasion […]