Watson Events

Islam and the Humanities 2018 – Assessing the Islamic Past: Historical and Philosophical Intervention

Friday, April 20, 2018

Panel 1 (9:30-11:00 a.m.)

• Respondent: Helge Jordheim, University of Oslo
• Judith Pfeiffer, University of Bonn
  “Rashīd al-Dīn’s Craft: Narrating Parallel Pasts in the Fourteenth Century”
• Nancy Florida, University of Michigan
  “Living in a Time of Madness: The Last Days of Java’s Last Prophetic Poet”

Panel 2 (11:15 a.m.-12:45 p.m.)

• Respondent: Aishwary Kumar, Stanford University
• Sean Hanretta, Northwestern University
  “The Logics of Practical Representations: Islam and Social Transformation among a Minority Population in Ghana”
• Margrit Pernau, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin
  “Emotions and Temporalities. Sayid Ahmad Khan's Concept of Modernity”

Panel 3 (2:00-3:30 p.m.)

• Respondent: Anne Murphy, University of British Columbia
• Kaya Şahin, Indiana University
  “To Observe, to Record, to Memorialize (ca. 1582): Depicting the Circumcision of an Ottoman Prince”
• Dana Sajdi, Boston College
  “The Reinventions of a Tradition: Cityscapes of Damascus in the long 16th-Century”

Panel 4 (3:45-5:15 p.m.)

• Respondent: Constantin Fasolt, University of Chicago
• Nils Riecken, Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin
  “On Tragic Temporality: Abdallah Laroui’s Reading of Tradition”
• Rian Thum, Loyola University, New Orleans
  “What is Islamic History and is it Worth Talking About?”
• Dinner with participants and colleagues and students from Brown (7:30)

Saturday, April 21, 2018

• Summary discussion with participants and editors of History and Theory (10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.)
• Lunch (12:00-1:00 p.m.)