The Duke-UNC Islamic Studies Conference is an annual international confrence drawing graduate students from programs such as religious studies, history, comparative literature, Islamic studies, anthropology, political science, sociology, and cultural studies. This year's conference, "Islam and the Challenge of Pluralism: Muslim Encounters with the Other," will address ways in which Muslim communities have dealt with non-Muslim and minority Muslim groups in social spaces, cultural and artistic constructions, and intellectual discourses. The guest speakers for this year's conference include Hasan Hanafi, Professor of Philosophy at Cairo University, Maulana Waris Mazhari from Dar ul-Uloom Deoband, and Kevin Reinhart, Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Dartmouth College. This conference is open to the public and will take place at the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, please see the conference schedule for details.