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Public Lectures 2012-13


"Hanafi Works as Sources for the History of Central Asia"
Zafar Najmiddinov
Visiting Fellow, NES, Princeton University
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Jones 102
 

"How Turkey's Islamists Fell out of Love with Iran - and the Near Future of
Turkish-Iranian Relations"
H. Akin Unver, Kadir Has University, Istanbul
Monday, April 22, 2013, 4:30pm
East Pyne 010
 
"Turkish Foreign Policy and Economic Issues in the 21st. Century"
M. Levent Bilgen, consul General of the Republic of Turkey
Thursday, April 18, 2013, 4:30pm
Robertson Hall, Bowl One
Co-sponsored by the Princeton Middle East Society, PIIRS, and
The Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination
 
The 35th. Annual Carolyn L. Drucker Memorial Lecture
"Roads Taken: The Great Jewish Migration and the Peddlers Who Made It Possible"
Tuesday, April 16th. 2013, 4:30pm
McCormick 101
Hasia R. Diner
Paul S. and Sylvia Steinberg Professor of American Jewish History
Director, Goldstien-Goren Center for American Jewish History
New York University
Sponsored by the Department and Program in Near Eastern Studies
and the Program in Judaic Studies
 
"Literalism and Legitimate Violence in Early Islamic Legal Thought"
Robert Gleave
University of Exeter
Wednesday, March 6, 2013, 4:30pm
102 Jones Hall

"A Woman in the Crossfire"
Samar Yazbek
Novelist, journalist and author of “A Woman in the Crossfire: Diaries of the Syrian Revolution”
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
4:30 p.m.
219 Aaron Burr Hall
Co-sponsored with the Institute for the Transregional Study of the Contemporary Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia (TRI), the Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determiniation, the Department of Near Eastern Studies and the Women's Center.

Public Lectures 2011-12

“Independent Film-Making in Israel –
An Afternoon with Israeli Award-Winning Filmmaker Dani Menkin”
In English - with film clips
Sunday, January 29, 2012
3:30pm, McCormick 101

 Leon B. Poullada Memorial Lecture Series
Symposium on Sufism and Islam in Central Asia

 October 21-22, 2011

Woodrow Wilson School - Robertson Hall, Bowl One
 
Supported by a generous grant from the family of
Leon B. Poullada
 
Sponsored by the Department & Program in
Near Eastern Studies
 
Day One (Friday, October 21):
 
9:00 am                                   Light Breakfast Buffet - Bernstein Gallery
 
9:30 am-9:50 am                     Welcome and Introductions – Muhammad Qasim Zaman
                                                    (Princeton University), Symposium Chair
      
9:50 am-10:15 am                   Opening Address – Devin DeWeese (Indiana University), 
                                                     Symposium Co-Chair
 
Session I (10:15 am-12:15 pm): Sources and Interpretative Strategies
 
Shahzad Bashir (Stanford University): “Genre, Narratives, Texts, and Manuscripts:  A Heuristic for the Study of Central Asian Sufi Hagiography”
 
Jo-Ann Gross (The College of New Jersey): “ The Biographical Tradition of Mu ḥammad Bashārā: Islamic Hagiography in Tajikistan”
 
Maria E. Subtelny (University of Toronto): “The Oeuvre of Ḥusayn Vā‘iẓ Kāshifī as a Source for the Study of Sufism in Early 16th-Century Central Asia”
 
Discussant: Jawid Mojaddedi (Rutgers University)
 
 
12:30 pm-2:00 pm                   Lunch Break - Bernstein Gallery
 
 
Session II (2:00 pm-4:00 pm): Sufi Communities and Sources: Realignments from the Russian to the Post-Soviet Period
 
Kawahara Yayoi (University of Tokyo): “Walī-khān’s jihād in Marghilan: A Consideration on a Makhdūmzāda Family in the Khanate of Khoqand
 
Eren Tasar (Washington University in St. Louis ): “ Sufism on the Soviet Stage: Holy People and Places in Central Asia’s Socio-political Landscape after World War II”
 
Ashirbek Muminov (Institute of Oriental Studies, Academy of Sciences of Kazakhstan): “Sufi       Groups in Contemporary Kazakhstan: Competition and Connections with Kazakh Islamic Society”
 
Discussant:  Zvi Ben-Dor Benite (New York University)
 
 
4:00 pm-4:30 pm                     Coffee Break - Bernstein Gallery
 
4:30 pm-5:00 pm                     First Day Concluding Remarks and General Discussion
                                                    Symposium Moderator, Jo-Ann Gross
 
 
 
Day Two (Saturday, October 22):
 
9:00 am                                    Light Breakfast Buffet - Bernstein Gallery
 
Session III (9:30 am-12:00 pm): Sufi Communities: Social, Political, and Economic Perspectives
 
Florian Schwarz (Austrian Academy of Sciences): “The Sufi and the City: Sufi Communities in 17th-Century Bukhara According to the Thamarāt al-mashāyikh”
 
Allen Frank (Takoma Park, Maryland) “The Tārīkh-i Barangawī as a Source on Sufi Shaykhs in the Emirate of Bukhara, 1850-1905”
 
Sugawara Jun (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies): “Mazārs and Waqf Domains in Kāshghar: A Preliminary Approach to their Dimensions and Distribution in the Early 20th Century”
 
Robert McChesney (New York University): “Keeping it in the Family: Sufi Shrines, Dynastic Families, and the State in Early Modern Central Asia and Afghanistan”
 
Discussant: Dina Le Gall (Lehman College, City University of New York)
 
12:00 pm-12:15 pm     Second Day Concluding Remarks
                                         Moderator, Jo-Ann Gross
 
12:15 pm-12:45 pm    Concluding Remarks and General Discussion
                                        Michael Cook (Princeton University)
 
12:45 pm-2:00 pm                 Lunch for Speakers/Participants-Bernstein Gallery
                                                                   End of Symposium.
 
“National Identity among Present Day Turks”
David Kushner
University of Haifa
 
Monday, October 17, 2011 
4:30pm, Jones 100
 

Co-sponsored Lectures 2011-12

THE 34TH ANNUAL
CAROLYN L. DRUCKER
MEMORIAL LECTURE
 
"Jews into Israelis: Zionism as a Revolutionary Project "
Derek J. Penslar,
University of Toronto
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Robertson Hall, Bowl 16

Derek J. Penslar is the Samuel Zacks Professor of Jewish History at the University of Toronto and is an elected fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and the American Academy for Jewish Research. He is author or editor of ten books, including The Jewish State in Comparative Perspective (2006) and The Origins of Israel: A Documentary History (2011). Penslar has just completed a book, under contract to Princeton University Press, titled Uniform Identities: Jews, War and the Military in Modern History. Penslar is co-editor of two scholarly journals, The Journal of Israeli History and Jewish Social Studies. He has been a visiting professor at Harvard and Columbia, and next fall he will assume the Stanley Lewis Chair in Israel Studies at Oxford.
 
Sponsored by the Department and Program in Near Eastern Studies
and the Program in Judaic Studies.
 
"Wrestling with Free Speech, Religious Freedom, and Democracy in Turkey"
James Harrington
University of Texas at Austin Law School
 Friday, March 2, 2012
12:00pm, 012 Bendheim Hall
Cosponsored with the Lichenstein Institute on Self-Determination
 
 

"Up to the Minute: The Latest Political Developments in Syria" 
Richard Murphy
Former US Ambassador to Syria
Tuesday, February 11, 2012
4:30pm, Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall
Cosponsored with the Workshop on Arab Political Development

"Islam and Modernity"
Public Conversation with Dr. Seyyed H. Nasr
Pre-eminent Author, Scholar, & Philosopher of Islam
Friday, February 10, 2012
4:00 - 5:00pm, Whig-Clio Hall
Cosponsored with the Muslim Life Program

"The Nationalist-Islamist Split among Palestinians and Its Impact on Palestinian-Israeli Relations"
Khalil Shikaki
Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research
11-15-2011, 4:30pm
Robertson Hall, Bowl One
Co-sponsored with the Workshop on Arab Political Development and the Institute for the Transregional Study of the Contemporary Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia.

"Development in Yemen and Implications Beyond" 
Ambassador Barbara Bodine
Diplomat in Residence, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University
10-11-2011, 4:30pm
Robertson Hall, Bowl One
Co-sponsored with the Workshop on Arab Political Development and the Institute for the Transregional Study of the Contemporary Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia

"What Future for Israel/Palestine?
Marwan Bishara
Al-Jazeera Senior Political Analyst
10-6-2011, 4:30pm
McCormick 101
Co-sponsored with the Princeton Middle East Society

"Iran and the Arab Spring" 
 Scott Peterson
Author & Journalist
9-28-2011, 4:30pm
Robertson Hall, Bowl One
Co-sponsored with the Princeton Middle East Society