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) - Muslim Materialities Series - Murad Mumtaz Khan, Squirrels in a Plane Tree? Mughal Painting and Islamic Ontology - Register 

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

Winter 2025

Feb 6 - online - Anya King

Feb 27 - MN3230 (CDRS) - Seema Golestaneh

Mar 6 - online - Eyad Abuali

Mar 20 - online - Anna Bigelow

Poster for Murad Khan lecture on 17 Oct

Oct 17. - Murad Mumtaz Khan: Squirrels in a Plane Tree? Mughal Painting and Islamic Ontology

Poster for Timur Hammond lecture on 21 Nov

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, 2024 - MMLS poster

Jan. 29 - Sana Chavoshian: Blood: Mothers and Martyrs of the Iran-Iraq War

Feb. 13, 2024 - MMLS poster

Feb. 13 - Babak Rahimi: 'It is a long way from Kerbela to Cavalry': Matthew Arnold's Medievalist ta'ziyeh

Mar. 7, 2024 - MMLS poster

Mar. 7 - Youshaa Patel: How to think about Muslim Difference: On Mimesis and Alterity in Islam

MMLS - Mar. 14

Mar. 14 - Teren Sevea: Saints, Relics and Fragments: Remembering Malay-Islamic Histories in Ruins

Mar. 21, 2024 - MMLS poster

Mar. 21 - Frank J. Korom: Making Sense of Bawa

MMLS - Mar. 28 poster

Mar. 28 - Mohammad Nabeel Jafri: The Māḥauls of Oratory: Urdu Shiʿi Khiṭābat in Contemporary Karachi

Schedule - Fall 2023

Adam Bursi event poster

Oct. 5 - Adam Bursi: Prophetic Pieces and Places: Relics and Sacred Spaces in Early Islam

Akbar Zaidi event poster

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

Shenila Khoja-Moolji event poster

Nov. 2 - Shenila Khoja-Moolji: Culinary Placemaking: Cookbooks as an Artifact of Displaced Shia Ismaili Muslim Women’s Lives