Borders and Belonging
Borders and Belonging | Identities and Intersectionsis a series of conversations and discussions presented by the Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies at Stanford to examine the question of identity and belonging as it pertains to borders. The series will critically address questions of migration, citizenship, political representation, race, community and social justice in contemporary and historical contexts of Islam or Muslim-adjacent communities and peoples in America and worldwide.
Past Events
Film Synopsis
Making Sacred Spaces Virtual: The Role of Digital Tools in Preservation and Demarginalization of Ecclesiastical Art of Southeastern Europe
Join us for a human centered evening of listening and reflection.
Eternal Night: Caves and Ritual Imagination in Ancient Mediterranean Religions
Of Bodies and Spirits: Present-day Byzantine Music Notation and its Liturgical Use in the Services
Over the thirteenth century, a prolonged struggle over buildings and land played out in the center of the small Umbrian town of Città di Castello. This contention played out through…
In Violent Intimacies, Aslı Zengin (Rutgers University) traces how trans people in Turkey creatively negotiate and resist everyday cisheteronormative violence.
Sanctity Elusive and Manifest: The Nilometer at al-Rawda Island and its Cosmological Entanglements
Of all the hymnographers whose works appear in the liturgical books of Byzantium, only one—Kassia—was a woman.
Armenian women immigrants, many of them survivors of the Armenian Genocide, participated in the French Resistance against the Nazis during WWII.