This webinar, conducted by Ellen McLarney, Associate Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Duke University, will pose the question, “What does it mean to be a Muslim American?” by addressing local and global, national and transnational identities. Through an introduction of a brief history of Islam in America, teachers will gain foundational knowledge necessary for understanding the contemporary cultural life of Muslim Americans. The webinar will then examine civic and religious roles of Muslim Americans as they converge in shared spaces and various community institutions.
Consortium for Christian–Muslim Dialogue and Turkish Cultural Center of Pittsburgh
The Religion & Society Series continues with a discussion by Kevin Mongrain (Assoc. Professor of Theology, Duquesne University) and Suleyman Eris (founder and president, Respect Graduate School) about The Problem of Evil: Islamic & Christian Perspectives, in the Genesius Theater on the campus of Duquesne University. The event is organized by the Consortium for Christian–Muslim Dialogue with the Turkish Cultural Center of Pittsburgh, and hosted by Duquesne’s Theology Department.
Asian Studies Center, Center for Russian and East European Studies and Global Studies Center
Associate Professor of History, Dr. Rian Thum's research and teaching are generally concerned with the overlap of China and the Muslim World. He argues that the Uyghurs- and their place in China today- can only be understood in the light of longstanding traditions of local pilgrimage and manuscript culture.
Asian Studies Center, Center for Russian and East European Studies and Global Studies Center
Dr. Morgan Liu is a cultural anthropologist studying Islamic knowledge and practice in post-Soviet Central Asia, focusing on Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan. He is interested in ethnographic approaches to the state, post-socialism, space, and agency. Liu takes a comparative look at notions of just society across the Middle East, Russia, and Asia.
Asian Studies Center, Center for Russian and East European Studies and Global Studies Center
Georgetown University professor, Dr. James Millward, discusses the ancestors of the guitar, viola, mandolin, and other members of the stringed instrument family that hail from Central Eurasia and traveled both east and west along what we call the "Silk Road." Silk Road interactions involved more than the conveyance of a thing from point A to point B; these conversations laid the shared substratum of old world civilization and continue to resonate today.
This talk explores the relationship between national securitization, liberal warfare, and transnational linkages and encounters between the U.S. and the North Africa/Middle East region. Drawing on over a year of research in Israel/Palestine, this talk examines how the tethering of U.S. terrorism law and policy to foreign aid transactions is giving rise to expansive networks of surveillance and enforcement far beyond U.S. borders.
University of Pittsburgh Muslim Student Association
Join us as Ustadh Wisam Sharieff gives a talk at the University of Pittsburgh. Ustadh Wisam Sharieff is the founder of Advocating Qur’anic Literacy (AQL), an institute focused on educating communities on how to read, memorize, and understand the Qur’an. He graduated from the Qur’an Academy in Lahore, Pakistan with a bachelor’s degree in Arabic grammar and a minor in Arabic literature. His studies include studying personally with Dr. Israr Ahmed (R) for one year, studying a summer in Makkah, and earning his ‘ijaazah in Egypt in the Hafs ’an ‘Aasim’s recitation.
The Islamic Center of Pittsburgh, Jewish Women's Center of Pittsburgh, & Rodef Shalom Sisterhood
Join us for an afternoon of conversation and storytelling where sisters from all faith traditions will be sharing life experiences and stories (not only religious ones) to one another to try to feel connected on a human level. This afternoon will hopefully bring many heartfelt memories of smiles and laughter along with empathizing with one another about our individual journeys through life.
Join the ESC as we welcome Dr. Annette Förster, Lecturer and Research Associate for the Institute of Political Science at Aachen University, and the current Rooney International Visiting Scholar at Robert Morris University. Her lecture will focus on the ways French authorities systematically used torture in the French-Algerian War (1954-1962). The lecture explores that practice and tests two theses: 1. Democracies tend to use torture in asymmetric conflicts when faced with terrorist methods. 2. Torture goes along with the erosion of basic democratic structures and principles.
