Professor Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila: When East meets West - cultural contacts around the Mediterranean
Professor Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila will be giving his Inaugural Lecture on the topic of cultural transmission between Arab-Islamic and western cultures.
IMES Seminar Series:
Nacim Pak-Shiraz (Edinburgh) - “Solomon on Screen: The Qur’an and Cinema”
IMES Seminar Series: Joshua Ralston (Edinburgh) - “"That Hideous Schizophrenia": A Genealogy of Islamic Polemics against Christianity and Secularism.”
The 2nd annual William Montgomery Watt lecture - Charisma and Anti-Charisma in al-Andalus - will be given by Professor Maribel Fierro, Research Professor at the Centre of Human and Social Sciences at the Higher Council for Scientific Research in Spain.
PhD presentations by Neil Russell on “Bringing the State Back in? Private Islamic institutions and official religious bureaucracy in Sisi's Egypt” and Ben Robin on “Iraq's Reform Protest Movement: Explaining secular-Sadrist cooperation”.
Ewan Stein (Edinburgh) - “International Relations in the Middle East: Social Movements and Regional Order”