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Global Islam: Past, Present and Future
A four part series on Global Islam presented by UBC Continuing Studies, the Department of Asian Studies at UBC, the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and the Laurier Institution. Lectures:
Islam and the Contest of Faculties in Iran
MOHAMAD TAVAKOLI-TARGHI, PhD
Sat, Feb 5, 7-9pm; UBC Robson Square. Free
Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi is Professor of History and Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations at the University of Toronto and the chair of the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Toronto - Mississauga. He is the author of numerous articles and two books, including Refashioning Iran: Orientalism, Occidentalism and Nationalist Historiography (2001).
The Meaning of Global Jihad
FAISAL DEVJI, PhD
Sat, Mar 12, 7-9pm; UBC Robson Square. Free
Faisal Devji is University Reader in Modern South Asian History, St. Antony’s College, at the University of Oxford. He has held faculty positions at the New School in New York, Yale University and the University of Chicago, from which he also received his PhD in Intellectual History. Devji is the author of two books, Landscapes of The Jihad: Militancy, Morality, Modernity (2005), and The Terrorist in Search of Humanity: Militant Islam and Global Politics (2009). He is currently writing a book on the emergence of Muslim politics and the founding of Pakistan.
Indonesian Islam: The Modern, Global Shapings of a National Tradition?
MICHAEL LAFFAN, PhD
Sat, Mar 26, 7-9pm; UBC Robson Square. FREE
Michael Laffan is Professor of History and the Philip and Beulah Rollins Bicentennial Preceptor at Princeton University. He is the author of Islamic Nationhood and Colonial Indonesia: The Umma Below the Winds (2003) and is currently working on a new book, The Making of Indonesian Islam.
To register, call 604.822.1444 or register online at www.cstudies.ubc.ca/community/courses.html