The Islamicate Studies Working Group* at the University of Pittsburgh presents: Cemil Aydin, Professor of History, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill
Co-sponsored Event
Cemil Aydin
Keisha Blain Book Symposium
Please join us for the launch of Keisha Blain's new book, Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom (University of Pennsylvania Press, February 2018). Invited commentators will be Robert Trent Vinson, Frances L. and Edwin L. Cummings Associate Professor History and Africana Studies, The College of William and Mary; Lisa Tetrault, Associate Professor of History, Carnegie Mellon University. Event co-hosted by the program in Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies.
Jay Aronson, Carnegie Mellon University
Marcus Rediker Book Symposium
Please join us for the launch of Marcus Rediker's new book, The Fearless Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Dwarf who became a Revolutionary Abolitionist. University Club Conference Room A
James Pickett & Paolo Sartori
An International Symposium
Please contact James Pickett at pickettj@pitt.edu for more information.
Vincent Leung and Garret Olberding
For more details, please see the conference program and the presentation abstracts.
Aldo Lauria-Santiago, Rutgers University
Co-sponsored by the Center for Latin American Studies
Moses Ochonu, Vanderbilt University
In this talk, Dr. Moses Ochonu, Professor of History at Vanderbilt University, will historicize the political, theological, and economic events and anxieties that produced the Boko Haram insurgency in Nigeria. He will deploy, as a structuring analytical device, the theological and polemical construct of munafunci (or hypocrisy). Munafunci is a recurring trope in the rhetorical claims of Muslim reformers and other critics of political and religious orthodoxies in Northern Nigeria.
Paulina Alberto, University of Michigan
Paula Alberto is the author of Terms of Inclusion: Black Intellectuals in Twentieth-Century Brazil (University of North Carolina Press, 2011) and co-editor, with Eduardo Elena, of Rethinking Race in Modern Argentina (Cambridge University Press, 2016).