Video recordings of select GISC programs are available below, and can also be viewed on the GISC YouTube channel. To view the full list of past GISC events since 2011, visit our Events Archive.
2017 - 2018
Unraveling the Arab Spring: Egypt since 2011
DISC/WCED Panel.
Moderator: Pauline Jones, DISC director.
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.
Sponsors: Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum, Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, University Musical Society, Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies. November 7, 2017.
2016 - 2017
Human Rights, Gender, and Sexuality in the Islamic World
DISC/WCED Symposium.
Moderator: Susan Waltz, professor of public policy, U-M.
Respondent: Shirin Ebadi.
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.
Sponsors: Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum, Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies, Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, Ford School of Public Policy, Law School. October 27, 2016.
Gender and Sexuality in the Islamic Culture
DISC Distinguished Lecture by Shirin Ebadi, Nobel Peace Laureate (2003), lawyer, and human rights activist; introduced by Bridgette Carr, clinical professor of law, U-M.
Sponsors: Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum, Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies, Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, Ford School of Public Policy, Law School. October 26, 2016.
2015 - 2016
American Qur’an.
GISC Lecture by Sandow Birk, illustrator and graphic artist.
Sponsor: Global Islamic Studies Center.
Co-presenter: Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series. March 28, 2016.
Corruption as a Last Resort: Adapting to the Market in Central Asia.
CREES Noon Lecture by Kelly McMann (PhD political science ’00), associate professor of political science, Case Western Reserve University; research associate, CREES, U-M.
Sponsors: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies; Global Islamic Studies Center; Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies. October 28, 2015.
The Satellite Mosque in Europe: Arab Preachers on TV and Internet
CES/GISC Lecture by Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen, professor of cross-cultural and regional studies, University of Copenhagen.
Sponsors: Center for European Studies, Global Islamic Studies Center, Center for Middle Eastern & North African Studies. October 26, 2015.
Qur’anic Paradigms and Analogies in Caliphal Rhetoric
GISC Lecture by Vanessa De Gifis, associate professor of Islamic studies, Wayne State University. Sponsor: Global Islamic Studies Center. October 15, 2015.
The Making of European Jihadis.
CES/GISC Lecture by Kenan Malik, writer, lecturer, and broadcaster.
Sponsors: Center for European Studies, Global Islamic Studies Center. October 5, 2015.
Experiments in Legal Pluralism: Sharia Law as Minority Right in Interwar Yugoslavia.
CES/GISC Lecture by Emily Greble, associate professor of history, City College of New York.
Sponsors: Center for European Studies; Global Islamic Studies Center; Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies. September 21, 2015.
Islamic Studies in America: Past, Present, and Future
Inaugural Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum Distinguished Lecture by Seyyed Hossein Nasr,University Professor of Islamic Studies and Perennial Philosophy, George Washington University. September 16, 2015.
