Islam in Africa: Material HistoriesFall 2020 Lecture Series at NYU

4 June 2020

Silsila, the NYU Center for Material Histories of the Islamicate world, has recently announced the line up for the fall lecture series "Islam in Africa: Material Histories".

Below, please find the announcement by Finbarr Barry Flood, director of Silsila:

Dear colleagues and friends,

I hope that you and yours are safe and well and are managing to enjoy something of the summer. 

We are delighted to announce below the lineup for our fall lecture series Islam in Africa: Material Histories. Due to the ongoing restrictions imposed by the pandemic, this will be an online series in the form of Webinars. We are extremely  grateful to our speakers for agreeing to participate in this format. 

To accommodate audiences in the US and abroad, for this semester we are changing the timing of our lectures to 12.30-2.30 ET (New York time).

Each event will take place as a live Webinar at 12.30 ET (New York time). Approximately one week before each event we will circulate details containing a link, which will also be posted on the web page (https://as.nyu.edu/silsila/events.html) to enable you to register for the event. You will then receive a link enabling you to access the event as an attendee. Only registered attendees will be able to access the event.  

We look forward to welcoming you back to Silsila, virtually.

With best wishes,
Finbarr Barry Flood, director, Silsila: Center for Material Histories

Lecture Series' schedule:

Sep 9th "THE LOST ARCHIVE - TRACES OF A CALIPHATE IN A CAIRO SYNAGOGUE" Marina Rustow, Princeton University

Sep 16th "THE SWAHILI AND INDIAN OCEAN CULTURES THROUGH RECENT ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXCAVATIONS" Stéphane Pradines, Aga Khan University, London

Sep 23rd "CONTINUITIES AND CROSSINGS - EAST AFRICAN ILLUMINATED QUR’ANS FROM FAZA AND SIYU" Zulfikar Hirji, York University, Toronto

Sep 30th "ITEMS OF VALUE IN THE WESTERN INDIAN OCEAN" Stephanie Wynne-Jones, University of York

Oct 7th "BROKER STATES & THE ARTICULATION OF MEDIEVAL AFRICA WITH THE ISLAMIC WORLD" François-Xavier Fauvelle, Collège de France

Oct 14th "THE PALACE OF KING NJOYA - COLONIALISM, MODERNITY, AND ISLAM" Mark DeLancey, DePaul University 

Oct 22nd "TRANS-SAHARAN SLAVERY AND GNAWA GUINBRI - FROM CONCEALMENT TO EXHIBITION" Cynthia Becker, Boston University

Oct 28th "THE TARIKH AL-FATTASH AND THE MAKING OF THE CALIPHATE OF HAMDALLAHI" Mauro Nobili, University of Illinois

Nov 4th "BECOMING MUSLIM. THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF ISLAMISATION AND TRADE IN EASTERN ETHIOPIA" Timothy Insoll, University of Exeter

Nov 11th "DETERMINANT INDETERMINACIES - ICONIC PHOTOGRAPHS OF A SENEGALESE SUFI SAINT" Allen F. Roberts, UCLA

Nov 18th "PAPERS OF ISLAMIC MANUSCRIPTS AS GEOGRAPHICAL INDICATORS" Anne Regourd, CNRS, Paris

Dec 2nd "GOLD WORK: TECHNIQUES AND EXCHANGE ACROSS THE SAHARA" Sarah Guérin, University of Pennsylvania

Dec 9th "AFRICA IN THE INDIAN OCEAN WORLD - THE PROBLEM OF MARGINS IN ART HISTORY" Prita Meier, NYU

For further information on Silsila, the lecture series, and other events, please see the center's homepage:
https://as.nyu.edu/content/nyu-as/as/research-centers/silsila.html