Past Events
Since its founding, Islam, the Humanities and the Human has built a vibrant intellectual community through a wide range of public lectures, book talks, and faculty-led seminars. We have hosted events that span disciplines and geographies, from explorations of African Muslim literacy in the colonial Caribbean and youth politics in Amman through graffiti, to conversations on the layered translations of One Thousand and One Nights. Our programming has featured scholars and artists examining modern art in Lebanon, the cultural lives of early photographs in Senegal, the legacies of al-Andalus, and the intersections of Islam and Black thought in the Americas.
Together, these events have connected questions of religion, power, translation, and visual culture to broader debates in the humanities. By bringing leading voices in Islamic studies, art history, literature, and history to campus, our group has established itself as a space where new conversations about Islam, the humanities, and the human can unfold.
An Epic of Martyrs | 04/12/2026
Book Talk: The Dust That Never Settles | 03/04/2026
Before & After: Four Vignettes of Palestinian Art History | 02/09/ 2026
West African Cairo | 12/04/2025
Book Talk: Culture Beyond Country | 12/08/2025
The Dawn is Too Far: Film Screening + Q&A | 10/08/2025
The Metaverse and its Premoderns: Islam in an Expanding Reality | 10/16/2025
Workshop: Race and Gender in Islamic Art | 10/17/2025
Building Local Support: Architectural Patronage for Multiconfessional Communities in Ottoman Greece and Albania | 11/13/2025
Small Acts of Resistance: The Films of Jafar Panahi | 11/19/2025
Far From Mecca | 10/25/2021
Cairo Modern | 11/16/2021
Islamic Matters in Africa and the Colonial Atlantic | 10/1/2021
Exploring Urban and Youth Politics in Amman, Jordan through Graffiti | 4/24/2023
Contested Sights | 3/10/2023
Apocalyptic Tales From Iraq | 12/8/2022
Book Talk with Dr. Moradian | 2/1/2023
The Trials and Jubilations of Translating Arabic Literature | 10/27
Book Launch Roundtable | 9/28/2022
The Wolf King: Reflections on Religion and Power in al-Andalus | 03/30/2023
The Man in the Knit Cap 3/29/2022
Malcolm X, Islam and Souls of Black Folk | 3/25/2022