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What is the Environment? A New Book Conversation on Muslim Enviromentalisms with Anna Gade

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Join us to learn how our understandings of environmentalism and the environmental humanities could shift if we incorporate Islamic perspectives. In her recent book, Muslim Environmentalisms: Religious and Social Foundations, Anna M. Gade explores the religious and cultural foundations of Islamic environmentalisms. She blends textual and ethnographic study to offer a comprehensive and interdisciplinary account of …

ANTONIO URQUÍZAR HERRERA: THE MEMORY OF ISLAMIC MONUMENTS

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ANTONIO URQUÍZAR HERRERA “THE MEMORY OF ISLAMIC MONUMENTS IN EARLY MODERN SPANISH IDENTITY” Monday, September 30, 2019 5:00PM Conrad A. Elvehjem Building L140 — WORKSHOP “ON THE LIMITS OF MAGNIFICENCE” Monday, September 30, 2019 12:00 – 1:00 PM University Club, Room 212 Institute for Research in the Humanities Seminar Room *To attend the workshop, please …

PROFESSOR BORJA FRANCO : Raza y etnicidad en la península ibérica: el caso de los moriscos

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PROFESSOR BORJA FRANCO Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Spain Tuesday, October 1st, 2019 Room 260 Bascom Hall 4:00 p.m. Sponsored by: The Department of Spanish and Portuguese, The Anonymous Fund, The Jay & Ruth Halls Visiting Scholar Fund and the College of Letters and Science

History Department Colloquium: Gender & Violence

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History Department Colloquium This month’s theme: Gender & Violence With Lin Li “Curating Japanese Wartime Sexual Violence: Feminist Museums across East Asia” and Katrina Thompson “Becoming Muslims with a ‘Queer Voice’: LGBT Muslim Resistance to the Symbolic Violence of Ideological Erasure” (with Kate Turner as moderator). Monday, September 23rd 11:50 am-1:20 pm, Curti Lounge, Humanities