Past Events

Date
Mon February 26th 2024, 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Location
Stanford Humanities Center Board Room and on Zoom
424 Santa Teresa Street
Speaker:
Assoc. Prof.

Ali Yaycıoğlu, the faculty director of the Abbasi Program and a historian specializing in the Ottoman Empire and modern Turkey, delves into economic, political, and legal institutions, focusing on…

Date
Fri February 23rd 2024, 12:00pm
Location
Encina Hall
616 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford, CA 94305
William J. Perry Conference Room, C231

In 1967, Sireen Sawalha's mother, with her young children, walked back to Palestine against the traffic of exile. My Brother, My Land is the story of Sireen's family in the…

Date
Tue February 20th 2024, 5:00pm
Location
Encina Commons
615 Crothers Way, Stanford, CA 94305
123

Salafis explicitly base their legitimacy on continuity with the Quran and the Sunna, and their distinctive practices—praying in shoes, wearing long beards and short pants, and…

Date
Fri February 16th 2024, 5:30pm
Location
McMurtry Building
355 Roth Way, Stanford, CA 94305
370

Global Approaches to Sacred Space Workshop Series 2023-2024

Margaret Graves: Casting Between Matter and Magic: An Archimorphic Censer Walks from West Asia to Sweden 

Date
Tue February 6th 2024, 4:30pm - 6:30pm
Location
Encina Commons
615 Crothers Way, Stanford, CA 94305
123

As playwright and theorist, Sadallah Wannus analyzed the global forces that undermine the rights and sovereignty of Arab peoples at the same time that he…