2024–25 Muslim Materialities Lecture Series

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. 

Nov 21, 3–5 pm - online (Zoom) - Timur Hammond, "Fluid Geographies: Water, Mediation, and Infrastructure in an Istanbul Shrine" - Register

Winter 2025

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

Nov. 21 - Timur Hammond - Fluid Geographies: Water, Mediation, and Infrastructure in an Istanbul Shrine

 

 

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