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Giant of Ismaili studies honored by younger generation
A younger generation of scholars recently paid tribute to UCLA Professor Emeritus Ismail K. Poonawala at a symposium (“Reflections on Ismaili Studies: Standing on Poonawala’s Shoulders”) organized by the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies on May 23, 2013, by presenting new research in a tradition made immeasurably richer by his life’s work as a scholar of Ismaili Shiism.
Posted: 5/31/2013
Mama Kiota of Niger: Feminism in a rural African Muslim form
Political scientist Pearl T. Robinson describes the work of Mama Kiota as a vital part of the global feminist movement. A female Sufi educational and spiritual leader, Mama Kiota has been working under the radar in her local community in Niger for 40 years, educating and empowering rural African Muslim women.
Posted: 5/30/2013
Al-Rihla al-Ismailiyya: Reflections on Ismailis in Ismaili Studies
A lecture by Dr. Sumaiya Hamdani, Associate Professor, History and Art History Dept., George Mason University. Part of the conference "Reflections on Ismaili Studies: Standing on Poonawala's Shoulders."
Posted: 5/29/2013
Closing Remarks - Reflections on Ismaili Studies: Standing on Poonawala's Shoulders
Closing remarks by Professor Ismail Poonawala, UCLA.
Posted: 5/29/2013
Ismailis and Philosophy: A Critical Rationalist Perspective
A lecture by Dr. Daryoush Mohammad Poor, Reseach Associate, The Institute of Ismaili Studies, London. Part of the conference "Reflections on Ismaili Studies: Standing on Poonawala's Shoulders."
Posted: 5/29/2013
The Ismailis and the Qur'an: Is there an Ismaili Ta'wil?
A lecture by Dr. Omar Ali-de-Unzaga, Research Associate, The Institute of Ismaili Studies, London. Part of the conference "Reflections on Ismaili Studies: Standing on Poonawala's Shoulders."
Posted: 5/29/2013
Two UCLA professors win competitive grant for research on human rights archives
Historian Geoffrey Robinson and archivist Michelle Caswell will use a at $40,000 grant from the UC Pacific Research Program to explore the complex set of issues involved in the creation, housing, ownership, and use of archives on human rights abuses and crimes against humanity
Posted: 5/29/2013
Carioca Orientalism: Morocco in the Imaginary of a Brazilian Telenovela
A lecture by Waïl S. Hassan, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Posted: 5/28/2013
Changing notions of identity and place in Central Asia
A May 2013 graduate research panel organized by the Asia Institute's Program on Central Asia explored the changing dynamics of identity and place in the region. The interdisciplinary session saw presentations by a linguist, an anthropologist and a geographer, respectively.
Posted: 5/23/2013
Mostafa Sho‘aiyan: The Forgotten Revolutionary and the Possibility of Unified Action
A lecture in Persian by Peyman Vahabzadeh, University of Victoria
Posted: 5/21/2013
Ethnicity in the Early Abbasid Period
A lecture by Michael Cooperson, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, UCLA.
Posted: 5/17/2013
Singing, Chanting, and Chatter: Street Sounds and Songs of the 1919 Egyptian Revolution
A lecture by Ziad Fahmy, Cornell University
Posted: 5/16/2013
In Memoriam: Andrzej Korbonski (1927-2013)
Professor Emeritus of the UCLA Department of Political Science, Andrzej Korbonski was a distinguished Polish-American scholar whose contributions to communist and post-communist studies were internationally recognized.
Posted: 5/15/2013
Continuity and Change in the Cultural Legacy of Qajar Era
A lecture in Persian by Abbas Amanat, Professor of History & International Studies, Yale University. Part of the Bilingual Lecture Series on Iran.
Posted: 5/10/2013
Historical Critique and the Thresholds of Political Voice After the Ottoman Empire
A CPSC lecture by Kabir Tambar, Stanford University, Anthropology.
Posted: 5/9/2013
Nazarian Center to Host First Israel Studies Conference Held on West Coast
Former Israeli Foreign Minister Shlomo Ben Ami to deliver keynote address.
Posted: 5/9/2013
Rethinking Ottoman Cross-Cultural Encounters: Turks and the Armenian Alphabet
A lecture by Murat Cankara, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Introductory remarks by Sebouh Aslanian. Sponsored by the Richard Hovannisian Endowed Chair for Modern Armenian History at UCLA.
Posted: 5/8/2013
Being Danish: Paradoxes of Identity in Everyday Life
A book talk with author Richard Jenkins, University of Sheffield, Sociology. Discussant: Rogers Brubaker, UCLA, Sociology.
Posted: 4/25/2013
Islamic History & Identity in Central Asia: Key Issues & Debates
A lecture by Charles Weller, Washington State University
Posted: 4/17/2013
Return of the Brothers: Student Activism and Islamic Politics in 1970s Egypt
A lecture on April 10, 2013 by Abdullah Al-Arian,Wayne State University
Posted: 4/15/2013
Scholar to bring to life migrants’ perilous crossings
This profile of African Studies Center Director Françoise Lionnet looks at her upcoming presentation on historical and present-day migration and draws attention to the current phenomenon of African "boat people" — individuals from northern and western Africa in search of a better life who try to make the dangerous trip between the two continents in small boats. Lionnet delivers UCLA’s 114th Faculty Research Lecture in Schoenberg Hall on April 15, 2013, at 3 pm.
Posted: 4/15/2013
Bosnia Remade: Ethnic Cleansing and its Reversal
A book talk with author Carl T. Dahlman, Miami University of Ohio, Geography and discussant Adam Moore, UCLA, Geography.
Posted: 4/11/2013
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