2018-19
- DISC Distinguished Lecture. "'More Perfect': A Politics of Empathy in a Challenging American Moment." Abdul El-Sayed, physician, public health expert, 2018 candidate for governor of Michigan.
- IISS Workshop. "Muhammad: Prophet of Peace Amid the Clash of Empires." Juan Cole, Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History, U-M.
- Arab Folk Dance. Karim Nagi, Egyptian musician, composer, ethnic dance artist, and DJ.
- Lecture. "RED: Animal, Vegetable, Mineral. A Study of the Red Colors Used for Painting in Manuscripts." Cheryl Porter, director, Montefiascone Conservation Project.
- II Round Table. "The Uyghur Human Rights Crisis: What is Happening in Northwest China?" Moderator: Mary Gallagher, director, Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies; professor of political science, U-M. Presenters: Gardner Bovingdon, associate professor of Central Asian studies, Indiana University; Nicholas Howson, professor of law, U-M; Zubayara Shamseden, Chinese outreach coordinator, Uygur Human Rights Project.
- Lecture. "Heads and Horror: Men's Severed Heads from the Bible to Netflix." Kelly J. Murphy, associate professor of philosophy and religion, Central Michigan University.
- Work-in-Progress Performance. "Little Syria." Omar Offendum, Syrian-American rapper and poet.
- 9th Annual Pakistan Conference. "Spaces of Capital."
- IISS Lecture. "Al-Ghazālī and the Foundations of Medieval Islamic Ontology, Epistemology, and Scientific Inquiry." Mohammad Alhawary, professor of Arabic linguistics and second language acquisition, U-M.
- IISS Workshop. "The Praiseworthy One: The Prophet Muhammad in Islamic Texts and Images." Christiane Gruber, professor of history of art, U-M.
- Islamic Peace Studies Conference. "The Abode of Peace: Spirituality and Harmony in Islam."
- Author's Forum. "The Praiseworthy One: The Prophet Muhammad in Islamic Texts and Images." Christiane Gruber, professor of history of art, U-M; Juan Cole, Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History, U-M.
- Globally Engaged Career Panel. Fernando Snowden-Lorence, JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Courtney Meyer, International Food Policy Research Institute; Amber Forbes, Inter-American Foundation.
- Lecture. "Captivated by the Mediterranean: Early Modern Spain and the Political Economy of Ransom." Daniel Hershenzon, assistant professor, University of Connecticut.
- Lecture. "Prisoner: My 544 Days in an Iranian Prison." Jason Rezaian, author and journalist, Washington Post and CNN.
- Lecture. "Israel Through A Colored Lens: African-American Perspectives on Mizrahi Israelis." Bryan Roby, assistant professor of Judaic studies, U-M.
- Exhibition. "Stories Never Told: Yemen’s Crises & Renaissance." Hanan Ali Yahya, local Yemeni-American social entrepreneur.
- Winter 2019 Iran Symposium.
- Kerning Cultures: A Podcast Listening Party. Bella Ibrahim, marketing lead at Kerning Cultures.
- Teach-In Town Hall. "BDS, Nonviolence, and MLK's Legacy in the Middle East." Cindy and Craig Corrie, Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace and Justice; David Palumbo-Liu, professor of comparative literature, Stanford University.
- 2019 Iranian Film Festival of Ann Arbor.
- Panel Discussion. "Arab and Muslim American Studies in Urgent Times: Celebrating the Scholarship of Evelyn Alsultany."
- IISS Workshop. "Domestic Architecture and Urban History: The Promise and Limitations of Property Deeds Written in Cairo’s Early Ottoman Courts." Shauna Huffaker, associate professor of history, University of Windsor.
- IISS Lecture. "Living in a Liminal Age: Cairo’s al-Darb al-Ahmar District Enters the Early Modern." Shauna Huffaker, associate professor of history, University of Windsor.
- IISS Workshop. "Sainthood Between the Ineffable and Social Practice: Jesus Christ in the Writings of Muhyi al-Din Ibn al-Arabi and Later Sufism." Ali Hussain, Ph.D. candidate, Middle East studies, U-M.
- Seminar. "Margins of the Mediterranean." Keynote speaker: Persis Berlekamp, associate professor of art history, University of Chicago.
- IISS Workshop. "Queer Liminality: Gender and Sexuality in Raafat Hattab’s Ho(u)ria." Sascha Crasnow, lecturer in Islamic art, U-M Residential College.
- Lecture. "SyrianamericanA: A Nation-State of Mind." Omar Offendum, Syrian-American poet & rapper.
- Lecture. "Islamophobia and the Struggle for Recognition." Tariq Modood; professor of sociology, politics, and public policy; University of Bristol.
- Lecture. "From Domination to Regeneration: Cultivating a New World View in Perilous Times." Ibrahim Abdul-Matin, author and policy expert.
- Film and Discussion. Soufra. Thomas Morgan, Soufra director and producer, and Quinn Konarska, production coordinator, Rebelhouse Group.
- Conference. "Destination: Detroit, Communities of Migration in Metro Detroit."
- Lecture. "As Black Muslim as Bean Pie: Food, Faith, and Nationhood in African American Islam." Zaheer Ali, oral historian, Brooklyn Historical Society.
- Cinetopia Film Festival.
- Weiser Hall Dedication and Inaugural Lecture. Anne-Marie Slaughter, president and CEO of New America.
- Conference. "Process in Modern and Contemporary Islamic Art."
- Lecture. "Amr Goes to Hollywood." Amr El-Bayoumi, actor.
- 8th Annual Pakistan Conference. "Movement, Migration, and Borders."
- Lecture. "Compendium as Archive? Muslim Ethical Thought and its Circulation in Colonial India." Farina Mir, associate professor of history, U-M.
- Performance. "Salts of the Earth with Zamzam and Honey: Spoken Word Performances by Poet Mohja Kahf." Mohja Kahf, professor of comparative literature, University of Arkansas.
- Lecture. "The Challenges and Opportunities of Exhibiting Asian Art in the 21st Century: A View from the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam." Anna Slaczka, curator of Asian art, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
- Lecture. "Gendering the Gulf Campus: Designing the City State University." Bader al-Bader, Ph.D. student in architecture, U-M.
- Symposium. "Being Muslim: Arts and Expressions."
- Lecture. "The Leaking Subject: Arab Culture in the Digital Age." Tarek El-Ariss, associate professor of Middle Eastern studies, Dartmouth College.
- Islamic Books Reading Group. Mohja Kahf's Hagar Poems! Samer Ali, associate professor of Arabic language and literature, U-M.
- Lecture. "The Lost Gender Egalitarian Voice of the Qur’an." Abla Hasan, assistant professor of practice of Arabic language and culture, University of Nebraska–Lincoln.
- IISS Symposium Keynote Address. "Black Islam in the Americas." Aminah Al-Deen, professor of religious studies, DePaul University.
- Middle East Languages Fair.
- Workshop. "Belief and Action: The Subjects of Islamic Studies." Presenters: Zaid Adhami, assistant professor of religion, Williams College; Kathryn Babayan, associate professor of history, U-M; Sarah Eltantawi, assistant professor of religion, Evergreen State College; Hussein Fancy, associate professor of history, U-M; Juliane Hammer, associate professor of religion, University of North Carolina; Rudolph Ware, associate professor of history, U-M.
- A Fiction Reading with Saladin Ahmed. Saladin Ahmed, science fiction and comic book writer.
- Lecture. "The Body and the Body Politic in the Middle East and North Africa--History, Traditional Healing, and Biomedicine." Ellen Amster, Hannah Chair in the History of Medicine, associate professor in the Departments of Family Medicine and History, McMaster University.
- Lecture. "Situating Rumi in Islam." Jawid Mojaddedi, professor of religion, Rutgers University.
- Lecture. "In His Own Voice: What Hatayi Tells Us about Shah Ismail’s Religious Views." Ahmet Karamustafa, professor of history, University of Maryland.
- Asian Languages Fair.
- Islamic Books Reading Group. Attar's Conference of the Birds. Cameron Cross, assistant professor of Iranian studies, U-M.
- Film. New Muslim Cool.
- Lecture. "Interpreting Islam in China." Kristian Petersen, assistant professor of religious studies, University of Nebraska Omaha.
- Lecture. "Religion, Ethics, and Climate Change." Jonathan Brockopp, associate professor of history and religious studies, Pennsylvania State University.
- Lecture. "Inter/Nationalism: Decolonizing Native America and Palestine." Steven Salaita, BDS activist and independent scholar.
- The Short Films of Larissa Sansour.
- IISS Workshop. "The Long-Term Impact of Religious Institutions on Development." Taha Abdul Rauf, Ph.D. student in political science, U-M.
- Lecture. "Entangled Histories of Translation: German Ottoman Literary Relations across the 19th Century." Kristin Dickinson, assistant professor of German, U-M.
- Lecture. "Eating the Audience’s Brain: Persianate Sociability in 18th-Century Delhi’s Poetry Salons." Nathan Tabor, assistant professor of history, Western Michigan University.
- Islamic Books Reading Group. Ibn Tufayl's Hayy Ibn Yaqzan. Karla Mallette, GISC director and professor of Italian and Near Eastern Studies.
- Panel. "Unraveling the Arab Spring: Egypt Since 2011." Panelists: Samer Ali, CMENAS director, U-M; Juan Cole, Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History, U-M; Jean Lachapelle, Weiser Emerging Democracies Postdoctoral Fellow, U-M; Bassem Youssef, satirist. Moderator: Pauline Jones, DISC director. VIDEO
- Lecture. "The Eager Fundamentalist: Muslim Mimicry in the Caribbean." Aliyah Khan, assistant professor of English, U-M.
- IISS Workshop. "What is Your Evidence? A Salafi Therapy in Contemporary Egypt." Ana Vinea, assistant professor/postdoctoral fellow, Department of Near Eastern Studies, U-M.
- Film and Discussion. Tickling Giants.
- Discussion. "Careers at the State Department: An Insider's View with Foreign Policy Analyst David Abramson."
- Lecture. "The Racial Dilemma: Confronting Islamophobia in America." Erik Love, assistant professor of sociology, Dickinson College.
- Film. The Night of Counting the Years.
- Islamic Books Reading Group. Exit West by Mohsin Hamid. Tarfia Faizullah, Delbanco Visiting Professor of Creative Writing, U-M.
- Lecture. "Reading the Qur'an Backwards: Arabic and Islamic Studies in Seventeenth-Century Italy." Pier Mattia Tommasino, Columbia University.
- Conference. "Seeking Social Justice in South Asia."
- Lecture. "Being Muslims: A Cultural History of Women of Color in American Islam." Sylvia Chan-Malik, assistant professor of American studies, women’s and gender studies, Rutgers University.
- Iranian Film Festival of Ann Arbor.
- Lecture. "Islamotopia: American Exceptionalism and Muslim Reform." Michael Muhammad Knight, assistant professor of religion, University of Central Florida.
- Lecture. "Political Shari‘a, Women’s Bodies and the Politics of Love in Razinat T. Mohamed’s Novel Habiba (Beloved)." Ousseina Alidou, professor of African, Middle Eastern, and South Asian languages and literatures, and comparative literature, Rutgers University.
- IISS Seminar Annual Symposium. "Islamic Studies in the Trumpocene: Arts/Praxis/Ideas."
- Minorities and Philosophy. "Frontispiece of the Ledger of Fools: The Radical Potential of Non-Radical Texts in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire." Harun Küçük, University of Pennsylvania.
- Performance. Islamic Dance Drama with Gamelan.
- 7th Annual UM-Pakistan Conference. "Gender & Sexuality."
- Discussion. "Muslim Beats in the New Millennium." Hisham Aidi, lecturer of international and public affairs, Columbia University; and Su’ad Abdul Khabeer, assistant professor of anthropology and African American studies, Purdue University.
- International Institute: Global University Symposium.
- IISS Lecture. "Muslim Graves in Southeast Michigan." Ronald Stockton, professor of political science, University of Michigan-Dearborn.
- Conference. "Peace in Islam, Islam in Peace."
- Round Table. "Xenophobia in the Age of Trump: The Roots, Context, and Remedies." Panelists: Anne Berg (history), Fatma Muge Gocek (sociology), Vince Hutchings (political science). Moderator: Michelle Bellino (education).
- Music & Dance Workshop of the Muslim Societies of the Southern Philippines. Peter Paul de Guzman, dance ethnologist; and Bernard Ellorin, Ph.D. in ethnomusicology.
- Hajja Razia Sharif Sheikh Lecture in Islamic Studies. "The Prophets of Islam: Medieval Narratives and Contemporary Theology." Roberto Tottoli, professor of Islamic studies, University of Naples L'Orientale, and member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.
- IISS Lecture. "Centering Black Narrative in Islam: A Conversation with Dawud Walid and Rudolph Ware." Dawud Walid, executive director, Michigan chapter, Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-MI); Rudolph Ware, associate professor of history, U-M.
- Film. Havresc: Stand On Courage.
- Performance. Beyond Sacred: Voices of Muslim Identity. Ping Chong, playwright and director.
- Investigating Islam: A Community Forum. Presenters: Tiffany Yasmin Abdelghani, Kadin Herring, Amir Khafagy, Beyond Sacred: Voices of Muslim Identity cast members; Mohammad Khalil, Michigan State University; Rudolph Ware, U-M. Moderator: Pauline Jones, U-M.
- IISS Workshop. "Debating Daʿwa: Theologies of Mediation in the Egyptian Islamic Revival." Yasmin Moll, assistant professor of anthropology, U-M.
- Workshop. "Islamophobia: Then and Now." Stephen Sheehi, College of William and Mary.
- DISC Webinar. Live Interview with Aman Ali, storyteller and comedian.
- Middle Eastern Languages Fair.
- Workshop. "Qur’an Plus: Holy Scripture and Its Creative Expressions." Ünver Rüstem, assistant professor of Islamic art and architecture, Johns Hopkins University; Walid Saleh, professor of Islamic studies, University of Toronto; Travis Zadeh, assistant professor of religious studies, Yale University.
- IISS Workshop. "Reading the Ruins: Two Poems on the Arch of Ctesiphon." Samer Ali, associate professor of Arabic language and literature, U-M; Cameron Cross, assistant professor of Iranian studies, U-M.
- Lecture. "Galvanizing Social Justice through Comics." Joe Sacco, graphic novelist.
- Lecture. "Reconstructing History of African Slavery in Qajar Iran: Interplay between Photography and Anthropology." Pedram Khosronejad, Farzaneh Family Chair and associate director, Iranian and Persian Gulf Studies Program, Oklahoma State University.
- The American Elections and the Middle East: Parallels from the Past, Lessons for the Future. Speakers: Samer Ali, Kathryn Babayan, Carol Bardenstein, Maya Barzilai, Erdem Cipa.
- Weiser Student Showcase and Info Session.
- II Panel Discussion. "Using Language and Area Studies with Your Professional Degree." Frank Sedlar (BA Civil Engineering '13, MS Civil Engineering '15); Maria Smith (MA REES /MPP Public Policy ’12); Linda Schultz (MPH Health Behavior And Health Education '12).
- DISC/WCED Symposium. "Human Rights, Gender, and Sexuality in the Islamic World." Panelists: Asma Barlas, professor of politics, Ithaca College; Juan Cole, Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History, U-M; Samar Habib, associate researcher, Centre for Gender Studies, University of London. Respondent: Shirin Ebadi, Nobel Peace Laureate (2003), lawyer, and human rights activist. Moderator: Susan Waltz, professor of public policy, U-M. VIDEO
- DISC Distinguished Lecture. "Gender and Sexuality in the Islamic Culture." Shirin Ebadi, Nobel Peace Laureate (2003), lawyer, and human rights activist. VIDEO
- DISC Film and Discussion. Facing Mirrors.
- Panel. "Layla and Majnun: From the Page to the Stage." Cameron Cross, assistant professor of Iranian studies, U-M; Christiane Gruber, associate professor of Islamic art, U-M; Aida Huseynova, lecturer in music, Indiana University.
- Performance. Layla and Majnun. Mark Morris Dance Group.
- WCED Panel. "Turkey’s Coup: The Context and Aftermath." Erdem Cipa, assistant professor of history; Fatma Müge Göçek, professor of sociology and women’s studies; Christiane Gruber, associate professor of Islamic art, U-M.
- The First Annual Iranian Film Festival of Ann Arbor.
- Lecture. "Experiments in Legal Pluralism: Sharia Law as Minority Right in Interwar Yugoslavia." Emily Greble, associate professor of history, City College of New York. VIDEO
- DISC Distinguished Lecture. “Islamic Studies in America: Past, Present, and Future.” Seyyed Hossein Nasr, University Professor of Islamic Studies and Perennial Philosophy, George Washington University. VIDEO
- Lecture. “Qur’anic Paradigms and Analogies in Caliphal Rhetoric.” Vanessa De Gifis, associate professor of Islamic studies, Wayne State University. VIDEO
- Lecture. "The Making of European Jihadis." Kenan Malik, writer, lecturer, and broadcaster. VIDEO
- Lecture. "The Satellite Mosque in Europe: Arab Preachers on TV and Internet." Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen, professor of cross-cultural and regional studies, University of Copenhagen. VIDEO
- Lecture. "Corruption as a Last Resort: Adapting to the Market in Central Asia." Kelly McMann (PhD political science ’00), associate professor of political science, Case Western Reserve University. VIDEO
- Lecture. "The Political Economy of Homonationalism/Islamophobia." Peter Drucker, author.
- Exhibition. Metamorphosis Chat. Ferhat Özgür, artist.
- II Round Table. "Coming to America: The Muslim Experience." Sally Howell, Department of History, UM-Dearborn. Karen Majewski; Mayor of Hamtramck, MI; and Project Manager with the Institute for Research on Labor, Employment, and the Economy, U-M. Fayrouz Saad, Director of Immigrant Affairs with the Mayor’s Office, City of Detroit. Andrew Shryock, Department of Anthropology, U-M. Moderator: Hussein Anwar Fancy, Department of History, U-M.
- Film and Discussion. UnMosqued. Ahmed Eid, director. Muzammil Hussain, assistant professor of communication studies, U-M.
- Lecture. "Contesting Antiquity in Egypt." Donald Reid, professor emeritus of Middle East history, Georgia State University, and affiliate faculty, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization, University of Washington.
- Lecture. "Writing a 50-Volume Book in 14th century Damascus: Algorithmic Analysis, Text Reuse, and the Arabic Written Tradition." Maxim Romanov, University of Leipzig.
- Lecture. "'Adab' Humanism in the Arabo-Islamic Middle Ages: The Politics and Poetics of Vulnerability." Samer Ali, associate professor of Arabic and Islamic culture, U-M.
- CMENAS Graduate Student Symposium. "Enriching Perspectives on the Middle East & North Africa."
- IISS Lecture. "Epic Encounters? Narrative, Archetypes, and Myth in Islamic Historiography." D. Gershon Lewental, Schusterman visiting assistant professor of history and international & area studies, University of Oklahoma.
- IISS Workshop. D. Gershon Lewental, Schusterman visiting assistant professor of history and international & area studies, University of Oklahoma.
- Lecture. "Metamorphosis Chat: Of Turkish Living Rooms and Transformation." Ferhat Özgür, artist.
- IISS Workshop. "The Mongol King, the Prophet Muhammad, and the Buddha: Inter-faith Disputations and Sacred Kingship in Medieval Iran." Jonathan Brack, PhD candidate in history, U-M.
- Lecture. American Qur'an. Sandow Birk, artist. VIDEO
- Malaysian Cultural Night 2016. "Dihantui Mimpi."
- IISS Graduate Symposium. "Topics in Vernacular Islam."
- CSAS 6th Annual U-M-Pakistan Conference. "Infrastructure and Its Discontents." Nausheen Anwar, Department of Social Sciences, Institute of Business Administration, Karachi. Majed Akhter, Department of Geography, Indiana University. Hafeez Jamali; School of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences; Habib University, Karachi. Zahra Malkani, Gandi Engine Commission, Karachi. Shahana Rajani, Gandi Engine Commission, Karachi. David Gilmartin, Department of History, North Carolina State University.
- Classical Translation Contest: Classical Arabic, Persian, Armenian, and Turkish.
- An Interview with Dr. Jack Shaheen on Arab and Muslim Stereotypes Over the Last Four Decades.
- Conference. "After Alexander: Classical Texts in Arabic, Persian, and Armenian." Convener: Karla Mallette, U-M.
- Workshop. “A Bridge Between Cultures: A Workshop in Arabic and Chinese Calligraphy.” Haji Noor Deen, calligrapher.
- Lecture. “Arabic and Chinese Calligraphy: A Short Introduction.” Haji Noor Deen, calligrapher.
- Lecture. “Arab Influences on European Musical Traditions during the Era of the Crusades.” Dwight Reynolds, professor of religious studies, University of California, Santa Barbara.
- Central Asia Film Series. The Light Thief (Svet-Ake). Aktan Arym Kubat, director.
- IISS Lecture. "The Western 'Foreign Fighter' and ISIS: Causes and State-Based Solutions." Joshua Roose, Australian Catholic University and Harvard University.
- IISS Workshop. "Muslim Elites: The New Islamic Political and Religious Authority in the West?" Joshua Roose, Australian Catholic University and Harvard University.
- Central Asia Film Series. Tulpan. Sergei Dvortsevoy, director.
- Sunrise to Sunset: Fast-A-Thon 2014.
- Central Asia Film Series. Angel on the Right (Farishtai kitfi rost). Djamshed Usmonov, director.
- IISS Workshop. "The Walking Qur'an: Islamic Education, Embodied Knowledge, and History in West Africa." Rudolph (Butch) Ware, associate professor of history, U-M.
- Symposium. "Prophetic Poetics: Mawlid Texts and Muslim Piety in Interdisciplinary Perspective." Nancy Florida, professor of Javanese and Islamic studies, U-M. Talia Gangoo, PhD student in Islamic studies, U-M. Ali Hussain, PhD student in Islamic studies, U-M. Ousman Kobo, associate professor of history, Ohio State University. Shaykh Muhammad Adeyinka Mendes, classically trained Islamic scholar. Amir Syed, PhD student in anthropology & history, U-M. Organizer: Rudolph (Butch) Ware, associate professor of history, U-M.
- Central Asia Film Series. Student. Darezhan Omirbayev, director.
- IISS Lecture. "The Art of Forgiveness in Iranian Criminal Sanctioning." Arzoo Osanloo; associate professor; Law, Societies, and Justice Program; University of Washington.
- Lecture. “Old Islam in Detroit: Rediscovering the Muslim American Past.” Sally Howell, assistant professor of history, U-M Dearborn.
- Central Asia Film Series. Song from the Southern Seas (Pesn' Juzhnykh Morej). Marat Sarulu, director.
- IISS Lecture. "‘Bidesh Kara’ (Doing Abroad): Circular Migration and Bangladeshi Contract Workers." Mahua Sarkar, associate professor of sociology and Asian and Asian-American studies, Binghamton University.
- Central Asia Film Series. Luna Papa. Bakhtyar Khudojnazarov, director.
- Exhibit. Illustration/Graphic Novel Contest.
- Global Policy Perspectives. “Is Genocide Unfolding in Myanmar?” John Ciorciari, U-M, and Dr. Habib Siddiqui, author and activist.
- Lecture. "The Struggle for Syria: An Update on the Current Crisis." Tyler Thompson, policy director, United for a Free Syria.
- Lecture. “‘They Are Among Us’: Gezi Martyrs, Affective Incarnation, and Resistance in Contemporary Turkey.” Christiane J. Gruber, associate professor of Islamic art, U-M.
- IISS Lecture. "Giving to God: On Islamic Charity in Egypt." Amira Mittermaier, associate professor of religion and Near and Middle Eastern civilizations, University of Toronto.
- Conference. "Islamism in Southeast Asia." Kikue Hamayotsu, Northern Illinois University. Thomas Pepinsky, Cornell University. Meredith Weiss, SUNY. Joseph Chinyong Liow, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Duncan McCargo, University of Leeds. Joel Selway, Brigham Young University. Marina Ottaway, Senior Scholar; Wilson Center, Middle East Program. Organizer: Pauline Jones Luong, U-M.
- IISS Workshop. "Urdu Nationalism and Muslim Politics: Pre-Partition Histories." Kavita Datla, associate professor of history, Mount Holyoke College.
- Lecture. "Imagine: Muslim Women as Co-Stewards of Society." Daisy Khan, executive director, American Society for Muslim Advancement (ASMA), New York.
- Lecture. "To Be Young, Gifted, Black, American, Muslim, and Woman: Reflections from a 21st-Century, Muslim History Detective." Precious Rasheeda Muhammad; author, lecturer, independent scholar, poet, and publisher.
- Exhibition. "Doris Duke's Shangri La: Architecture, Landscape, and Islamic Art."
- IISS Workshop. "Localizing Islam through Transnational Influences." Asef Bayat, professor of sociology, University of Illinois.
- IISS Workshop. "Localizing Islam through Transnational Influences." Azra Aksamija, assistant professor of architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
- Muslim Studies Annual Conference. "Journeys of Practice."
- IISS Workshop. "American Muslims and the Reform of Islam." Zareena Grewal, assistant professor of American studies, Yale University.
- Seminar. "Open Spaces. Isolation, Assimilation and Integration: The Muslim Experience in America." Ustadh Usama Canon, Amjad Tarsin, and Zaynab Salman.
- Seminar. "Digital Islam: How the Internet and Social Media are Reshaping the Islamic Marketplace in Central Asia."
- IISS Workshop. "Localizing Islam through Transnational Influences." Jessica Winegar, associate professor of anthropology, Northwestern University.
- Lecture. "Story, Sentence, Single Word: Translation Paradigns in Javanese and Malay Islamic Literature." Ronit Ricci, senior lecturer, Australian National University's College of Asia-Pacific.
- Lecture. “What’s Andalusi about Andalusi Music? On Index and Origin in Urban North Africa.” Jonathan Glasser.
- IISS Workshop. Denys Shestopalets, junior research fellow at the A. Krymsky Institute of Oriental Studies and the Religion Studies Department of the Institute of Philosophy, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
- Lecture. "The Qur'an Read as the Document of an Epistemic Turn." Angelika Neuwirth.
- IISS Workshop. "Culture, Politics, and Resistance in Pakistan." Saadia Toor; associate professor of sociology, anthropology, and social work; College of Staten Island, New York.
- Lecture. “The Cultural and Intellectual Life of Northern Morocco during the Spanish Protectorate (1912-1956): Tradition and the Dynamics of a Relative Modernization.” Jaafar Ben El Haj Soulami.
- Symposium. "Islamic Knowledge in Africa." Rudolph Ware, U-M, "Traditional Islamic Schooling and Scholarly Production in Precolonial West Africa." Zachary Wright, Northwestern University, "Qatar Sufism and Islamic Learning in West Africa." Felicitas Becker, University of Cambridge, "Dynamics of Islamic Knowledge in East Africa." Ousman Kobo, Ohio State University, "Modern Forms of Islamic Knowledge in Africa, Continuities and Ruptures." Moderator: Pauline Jones Luong, U-M.
- IISS Workshop. Christiane J. Gruber, associate professor of Islamic art, U-M.
- Lecture. "This Song Guards The Night: Reading Power in the World of an Early Modern Javanese Islamic Incantation." Charley Sullivan, doctoral candidate in history, U-M.
- Lecture. "What Use Have You for Bodies and Limbs Anyway? Khariji and Ibaji Concepts of Shira in their Near Eastern Context." Adam Gaiser, Florida State University.
- IISS Workshop. "Muslims, Scholars, Soldiers: The Origin and Elaboration of the Ibadi Imamate Traditions." Adam Gaiser, Florida State University.
- Symposium. “Islam in Contemporary Spain: Identities and Representations.” Mounir Benjelloun, president of the Islamic Commission of Spain. Mariam Isabel Romero Arias, director of the Instituto Halal in Cordoba. José Antonio González Alcantud, University of Granada, Spain. Mikaela Rogozen-Soltar, Emory University. Avi Astor, Pompeu Fabra University.
- IISS Workshop. "Reconstructing a Sectarian Space: Settlement Patterns on Ibadi Jerba." Renata Holod.
- IISS Workshop. "Remixing Archive and Text." Manan Ahmed, assistant professor, Columbia University.
- Lecture. "Religion and Ethnicity in the Muslim Communities of Britain." Sean McLoughlin; senior lecturer in religion, anthropology, and Islam; University of Leeds.
- Lecture. "Trusting the Source as Far as It Can Be Trusted: al-Maqrizi and the Mongol Book of Laws (Yasah)." Frédéric Bauden, professor of Arabic language and Islamic studies, University of Liège, and visiting professor, University of Pisa.
- Global Scholars Program. "One Voice: Waging Peace. Building a Movement. Changing the Status-Quo." Ahmad Omeir and Danny Shaket, grassroots activists in Israel and Palestine.
- IISS Workshop. "Localizing Empire: Early Modern Commemorations of Alexander the Great and the Founding of Yazd." Derek Mancini Lander.
- Lecture. “'Listen, Plan and Carry Out "al-Qa`ida"': Theological Dissension in Usama Bin Ladin’s Former Audiocassette Collection.” Flagg Miller.
- IISS Workshop. "Entangled Genealogies, Stance, and Islamic History in Nagan Raya: Placing Islamic Reform in Context." Daniel Birchok.
- IISS Workshop. "The Birth of the Prophet Muhammad: Devotional Piety in Sunni Islam." Marion Katz, associate professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic studies, NYU.
- Lecture. "Debating Women's Mosque Access in Sixteenth-Century Mecca." Marion Katz, associate professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic studies, NYU.
- Lecture. "Historiography of Islamic Radicals in Indonesia." Fuad Jabali, visiting scholar.
- IISS Workshop. "Text Players: Ulama in Islamic History." Fuad Jabali, visiting scholar.
- Lecture. "Leisurely Islam: Youth Negotiations of Morality in Shi'i South Beirut." Lara Deeb, Scripps College.
