Category Archives: Presentations

Matthew Gillman CMES, University of Chicago “Beyond Narratives of Text and Image: A Safavid Khamseh as Comprehensive Object (BnF suppl. pers. 1029)” Discussant: Meekyung Macmurdie, Art History Thursday, May 2nd, 12 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. Pick 218, 5828 S. University Ave. To … Continue reading →

Serdar Şengül Harvard University, Visiting Scholar “Studying Kurdish Madrasa in the Shadow of Methodological Nationalisms” Thursday, April 18, 12:00 – 1:30 p.m. Pick 218, 5828 S. University Ave.

MEHAT is pleased to begin its Spring quarter programming. While the Workshop schedule is still tentative, we look forward to three special events this quarter. On Thursday, April 18, Serdar Sengul, a visiting scholar from Harvard University, will arrive on campus to … Continue reading →

The Winter 2013 quarter has come to a close. We would like to thank all presenters, discussants, and  attendees for all the excellent conversations we have had over the course of this quarter. We will resume with bi-weekly workshops in … Continue reading →

  Prof. Ellen Amster History, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee “Healing the Body, Healing the Umma: Sufi Saints and God’s Law in a Corporeal City of Virtue” Wednesday, March 13, 3:00 – 4:30 p.m. Pick 218, 5828 S. University Ave. To request a … Continue reading →

Elham Mireshghi Ph.D Student, Medical Anthropology, University of California, Irvine “Sacred Knowledges and Expert Opinions: Understanding the Fatwas on Kidney Sales in Iran” Discussant: Madeleine Elfenbein (NELC) Wednesday, March 6, 3:00 – 4:30 p.m. Pick 218, 5828 S. University Ave. … Continue reading →

Judith Pfeiffer (Oxford) “Confessional Ambiguity vs. Confessional Polarization: Twelver Shi’i Reactions to Mongol Rule in the Later Middle Period of Islamic History” Tuesday, February 26th, at 4.30 p.m. (Room TBA)   A discussion between Robert Gleave (Exeter) and Alireza Doostdar (U … Continue reading →

Please join us for a special guest lecture: Prof. Rula Abisaab (McGill University) “Shi`i Jurisprudence, Sunnism and the Traditionist Thought (akhbārī) of Muhammad Amin Astarabadi (d. 1036/1626-7)” Monday, February 18, at 5:00 p.m. Cobb 103. 5828 S. University Ave.

Sami Sweis (CMES ’12) “Transjordanian Mukhtars: The Coalescence of State and Tribe” Discussant: Carl Shook (NELC) Wednesday, February 13, at 3:00 p.m. Pick 218. 5828 S. University Ave.  For a copy of the paper, please email mehat.chicago@gmail.com.

Azad Sadr (NELC) “Blood, Murder, and Obedience: Rumi’s Use of Love in ‘The King and the Slave Girl’” Discussant: Maryam Sabbaghi (Divinity) Wednesday, January 30, at 3:00 p.m. Pick 218. 5828 S. University Ave.  For a copy of the paper, please email mehat.chicago@gmail.com.