This talk, by Prof. Avishek Ray, focuses on the epistemic and political implications of ascribing an "Indian origin" to the Roma. How do scholars and savants seek to understand Roma populations with reference to their purported origin and what ideas of Indian-ness does this entail?
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The speaker, referencing her book, Leaving Iberia: Islamic Law and Christian Conquest in North West Africa, examines Islamic legal responses to Muslims living under Christian rule in medieval and early modern Iberia and North Africa. Click here to watch the recording.
This talk presents the results of an archaeological and oral historical survey of Delhi’s refugee colony areas. Despite the dispossession and hardship wrought by the Partition, residents in these neighborhoods have transformed rudimentary government-built housing units into beloved, multi-generational family estates. {"preview_thumbnail":"/sites/default/files/styles/...
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In this talk, the speaker explores the interconnectedness between the Qur’an and literature produced in the U.S and Canada by Muslim Women. She seeks to draw attention to the wide variety of texts by American and Canadian Muslim women writers who reference the Qur’an and/or its Tafsir (i.e. exegesis). {"preview_thumbnail":"/sites/...
In his talk, our speaker explores how Tahmima Anam’s The Bones of Grace and Indra Sinha’s Animal’s People respond to the notion of development gained through the transfer of pollution to poor countries in the age of neoliberal globalization. {"preview_thumbnail":"/sites/default/files/styles/...
Shari Eppel, Executive Director of the Ukuthula Trust in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, speaks about the Trust's work with families of massacre victims in southwest Zimbabwe to identify, exhume and properly rebury the dead. {"preview_thumbnail":"/sites/default/files/styles/video_embed_wysiwyg_preview/public/video_thumbnails/1_m88hd7ew.jpg?itok...
Dr. Erdogan Boz discusses Yunus Emre on 700th anniversary of the poet's death. Note: Translation captions are posted during the lecture. {"preview_thumbnail":"/sites/default/files/styles/video_embed_wysiwyg_preview/public/video_thumbnails/1_4uqejt42.jpg?itok=RWWj2ErX","video_url":"https://mediaspace.illinois.edu/media/t/1_4uqejt42...
Fadhel Kaboub is an associate professor of Economics at Denison University and the president of the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity; Nouri Gana is an associate professor of Comparative Literature and Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at UCLA; Dr. Laryssa Chomiak is the director of the Centre d'Etudes Maghrébines à Tunis. The...
This seminar highlights current developments in the mechanisms being used to more accurately target the poor. The speakers discuss their recent efforts to apply machine learning methods to newly released and proprietary data from key humanitarian agencies to develop more effective and operationalizable targeting strategies that provide a more reliable complementarity between PMT and...