Assessing the Islamic Past: Historical and Philosophical Interventions
April 20-21, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs
Friday, April 20, 2018
Panel 1 (9:30 a.m.-11:00 a.m.)
Chair: Meltem Toksoz, Brown University
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.)
Chair: Lina Fruzzetti, Brown University
Respondent: Aishwary Kumar, Stanford University
Sean Hanretta, Northwestern University
“A Moving Minority in Twentieth-Century Ghana: Goods, Discourses, and the Trap of “Islamization”
Margrit Pernau, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin “Emotions and Temporalities. Sayid Ahmad Khan's Concept of Modernity”
Panel 3 (2:00 p.m.-3:30 p.m.)
Chair: Nancy Khalek, Brown University
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
“In Defense of Damascus: The Genre of Prose Cityscapes (12th and 16th Centuries)”
Panel 4 (3:45 p.m.-5:15 p.m.)
Chair: Shahzad Bashir, Brown University
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?”
Dinner with participants and colleagues and students from Brown (7:30 p.m.)
Brown Faculty Club
Saturday, April 21, 2018
Summary discussion with participants and editors of History and Theory (10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.)
Lunch for Participants (12:00 p.m.)