University of Pittsburgh

Michigan State University is hosting an international conference entitled “Measuring Muslim Publics: Curves, Columns, Spheres and Squares.” This conference investigates who is ‘the public’ in public opinion? What effect does it have on politics? These questions have received a great deal of attention by scholars of American and European contexts where their contributions have taken on a universalistic overtone. Are these generalized assumptions valid in other societies – notably in Muslim-majority contexts?

gypt today is facing unprecedented political, economic, and social challenges that are due to both internal and external factors. Since the 2013 coup and the resurgence of authoritarianism, Egypt has been locked in a state of political impasse with no real signs of change, while facing numerous economic and financial challenges ranging from significant levels of domestic and foreign debt to high inflation, deteriorating standards of living, declining tourism, and an outflow of billions of dollars following the devaluation of its currency.

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These conversations focus on five Black art figures of Muslim heritage: (1) Ayuba Suleiman Diallo (2) Yarrow Mamout, (3) Joseph Cinqué (4) Omar Ibn Sayyid and (5) The Bashi-Bazouk. They offer various interpretations, but this is precisely the reason this conversation is so vital. Then there’s the fact that these images are all of men and Black people, allowing us to question the male bias and racial assumptions in modern visual culture.

Announced by the University of Pittsburgh

Webinar speakers:

• Dr. Elizabeth Yates – Researcher and Report Co-author; Senior Researcher, Anti-Semitism Human Rights First
• Dr. Sultan Chaudhry – President, McLean Islamic Center
• Rachel Brown – Founder and Executive Director, Over Zero
• Dr. Kathleen Foley – Mayor of Cold Spring, NY; Founder and Principal, Mirador Consulting, LLC
• Amy V. Doukoure, ESQ. – Civil Rights Attorney, CAIR MI
• Dalia Mogahed – Director of Research, ISPU

Announced by the University of Pittsburgh
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Thunderbird Book Launch and Teacher Workshop

Decolonizing Museum Archives: Reinterpreting the Reisner Excavations in Sudan: A lecture in the series "Unsilencing the Archives"

Speaker: Elizabeth Minor, Wellesley College

Announced by the University of Pittsburgh
10-11 am Pacific Time.

The University of California Los Angeles Center for Near Eastern Studies presents a free webinar: The Islamic Movement in Israel. Speaker: Tilde Rosmer. Wednesday,

Abstracts are due by May 31st, 2022
Response to abstracts by June 5th, 2022
Conference dates: July 14-16, 2022

Announced by the the Australian Journal of Islamic Studies

Call for Abstracts
Islamophobia in the Aftermath of Christchurch & the Covid-19 Era

Special Issue Editors

Dr Derya Iner

Senior Lecturer, Charles Sturt University

Prof Scott Poynting

Professor, Charles Sturt University

39th Annual Film Festival
MEASA is seeking submissions for the 39th Annual MESA Film Festival. The MESA FilmFest is in its 39th year, and is a valued part of the MESA Annual Meeting. We are excited to be offering a virtual FilmFest for the third year in a row. We are opening the call for submissions, and we hope that you will be interested in participating.

All films will be vetted by the FilmFest Committee or by selected regional/topical experts. The films will only be available to registered conference attendees.