2012: May June July August September October November December
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May
May 30-31, 2012
"Indian Lovers in Arabic and Persian Guise: Azad Bilgrami’s Depiction of nayikas”
The 1st Perso-Indica Conference: "Translating and Writing Indic Learning in Persian"
Las Vergnas Hall, Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3 University, Paris
June
June 1, 2012
"Fayzi's Illuminationist Interpretation of Vedanta: the Shariq al-Ma`rifa"
Centre d'Études de l'Inde et de l'Asie du Sud
École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales/Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Paris, France
July
September
July 18-20, 2012
"Anglo-Persian Taxonomies of Indian Religions" (Keynote Address)
Conference on "Indian Pluralism and Warren Hastings’s Orientalist Regime"
University of Wales, Gregynog, Tregynon, Nr Newtown, Powys, Wales
September 4, 2012
Reading from How to Read the Qur'an: A New Guide with Select Translations
Westinghouse Raleigh Retirement Association
Raleigh, NC
September 18, 2012, 3 pm
Reading from How to Read the Qur'an: A New Guide with Select Translations
Carolina Meadows, Chapel Hill NC
October
October 3, 2012, 4 pm
"Anglo-Persian Taxonomies of Indian Religions"
Distinguished Lecturer Series, South Asia Institute, Columbia University
208 Knox Hall, 606 West 122nd Street, between Broadway and Claremont
New York, NY
October 9, 2012, 12:30 pm
"Sufism and the Arabic Poetry of Hallaj"
Rose Aslan's class RELI 581, "Sufism"
Global Education Center 1009, UNC-Chapel Hill
October 9, 2012, 2:00 pm
"Sufism and the Persian Poetry of Hafiz"
Shahla Adel's class ASIA 122, "Introduction to Iranian Culture"
Hanes Art Center 215, UNC-Chapel HillOctober 19-21, 2012
"Islamophobia in America"
Southeastern Regional Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies Seminar (SERMEISS)
Valle Crucis, North Carolina
November
November 1, 2012, 5-7 pm
"How to Read the Qur'an"
E105 AJB, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
November 2, 2012, 12:30 pm
"The 2002 UNC Qur'an Controversy: Religious Studies and Academic Freedom in Public Universities"
Atrium 3rd floor, Gilmore Hall, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
November 2, 2012, 7 pm
Reading from How to Read the Qur'an: A New Guide with Select Translations
Prairie Lights Bookstore, Iowa City, Iowa
November 16, 12:30 PM
"Iran: Cultures and Societies"
Yaron Schemer's class ASIA 150, "Asia: an Introduction"
Wilson Hall 107, UNC-Chapel Hill
November 17-20, 2012
Participant, Roundtable Discussion on "Beyond the Middle East: Revisiting and Reimagining the Area Studies Paradigm" (Tuesday, 11/20/12, 11:00 am)
Middle East Studies Association Conference
Denver, CO
December
December 14-16, 2012
"Reflections on the Poetry of Haji Bayram Wali" (Session 4, Dec. 15, 3:25-4:25 pm)
International Symposium on “Hajı Bayram Wali”
Hacettepe University, Cultural Center, Hall M, Sihhiye Campus
Ankara, Turkey
January
January 19, 2013, 6-8:30 pm
"How to Read the Qur'an"
North Durham Masjid
2609 W. Carver St., Durham NC
January 22, 2013
"How to Read the Qur'an"
Lecture Series on "The Qur'an in the World"
Institute for the Humanities and the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
January 31, 2013, 9 am-6 pm
"Persianate Islamic Studies in the US" (panel 2, 1-3:30 pm)
Conference on "Islam in the Columbia Curriculum, 1886-2012: From Oriental Languages to Area Studies and Religious Studies"
Columbia University Seminar on Religion and Writing
400 West 117th Street, New York, NY
February
February 12, 2013, 6:45 pm
"How to Read the Qur'an"
Fearrington Havurah
Fearrington Village, NC
March
March 15-17, 2013
Presider, Panel on "Contestations in South Asian Islam," Mar. 16, 4:30-6 pm
"Conversations in Islamic Studies: Carl Ernst and How to Read the Qur'an," Mar. 17, 9-11 am
Southeastern Commission for the Study of Religion (SECSOR) Regional Meeting
Co-sponsored by International Qur'anic Studies Association (see blogpost here)
Hyatt Regency
Greenville, South Carolina
April
7:00pm-9pm on April 18
Panelist at screening and panel discussion of WRAL documentary film on Muslims in North Carolina, "Faith, Fear and Freedom." Film available for viewing here.
Duke University Smith Warehouse, Bay 4 (The Garage), 114 S. Buchanan Blvd., Durham NC
May
May 3-4, 2013
Plenary lecture: "Sital Singh, a Hindu Commentator on Ibn `Arabi"
Workshop: "The Poetry of Hallaj"
"Ibn 'Arabi & Rumi Conference: Being Fully Human"
Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi Society and the Dominican School of Philosophy and Religion, at the Graduate Theological Union
Berkeley, CA
May 5, 2013, 12 noon-6 pm
Keynote: "The Theological Implications of Bracketing Faith in the Academic Study of the Qur'an"
Workshop on Reading the Qur'an (registration available here)
Sponsored by GTU Center for Islamic Studies, Dominican School of Philosophy and Religion, and Zaytuna College
2301 Vine St., Berkeley, CA 94708
May 7, 2013, 1:45 – 3 p.m.
"A Meeting of Two Oceans: Dialogue on Sufism and Buddhism"
Featuring Scholars of Sufi Thought, Literature, Music and His Holiness The 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet
Ina & Jack Kay Theatre, Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center
University of Maryland
May 8, 2013, 7-9 pm
"The Persian Sufi Writings of a Hindu Scholar, Sital Singh ‘Bikhwud’"
Ehsan Yarshater Lecture Series
Roshan Institute for Persian Studies
Tawes Hall, Ulrich Recital Hall, Room 1121
University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD
June