Conferences, Seminars and Workshops

AKU-ISMC holds a range of research related activities including workshops, seminars and conferences throughout the year. These have included two series of seminars on pluralism in Muslim contexts, a conference on cosmopolitanism, a seminar on governance and development and a conference on higher education in developing countries.

• Conferences and Workshops
  
• Seminar Series
  
• Public Lecture Series
  

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• Ethnographies of Islam: Describing Religious Practices in the Muslim World
  
• Workshop on Islamic Norms and Legal Processes: The Interactions of Legal Practices and Theoretical Formulations
  July 2009, London
• Reconsidering Dubai: New perspectives for cities in the Middle East?
  June 2009, London
• Cities: Understanding Socio-cultural Transformations
  October 2008, Istanbul
• Cosmopolitanisms in Muslim Contexts: Models from the Past, Questions for the Future
  June 2008, Vancouver
• Seminar on Governance and Development
  March 2008, London
• Theory and Practice of Law in Contemporary Muslim Contexts
  November 2005, London
• Organising Knowledge: Encyclopaedic Activities in the Pre-Eighteenth Century Muslim World
  November 2003, London

 

​Seminar Series

Research Fellowship Seminars

• December 2008
• February/March 2009
  
• May 2009 - International Workshop
  

Discussing Cities Forum

• December 2008
  
• June 2008
  
• February 2008
  

Pluralism Seminars

• The Possibility of Pluralism, 2005-2007
  
• Approaches to Pluralism, 2003-2004
  

 

Public Lecture Series

2011-12: Understanding Processes of Social Change in Muslim Cultures and Societies

•  Professor Abdou Filali Ansary, AKU-ISMC
  
• Professor Timothy Insoll, University of Manchester
  
• Professor Gilbert Achcar, SOAS
  
• Dr Albena Azmanova, Brussels School of International Studies
  
• Dr. Amira K. Bennison, University of Cambridge
  

2010-11: The Construction of Knowledge about Muslim Cultures and Societies

• Dr Robert Rollinger. Leopold Franzens University, Austria and AKU-ISMC Visiting Lecturer
  
• Professor Robert Gleave, University of Exeter
  
• Professor Stefan Wild, Bonn
  
• Professor Touraj Daryaee, University of California, Irvine
  
• Professor Aziz Al-Azmeh, Central European University
  

2010

• Professor Tariq Rahman, National Institute of Pakistan Studies, Quaid-i-Azam University
  
• Dr Nadje Al-Ali, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
  
• Professor Mehtab Karim, Pew Research Centre
  
• Professor Humayun Ansari Royal Holloway, University of London
  
• Dr Valerie Gonzalez, School of Architecture, Marseille and AKU-ISMC Visiting Lecturer
  

2009

• Dr Charles Hallisey, Harvard University's Divinity School
  
• Mr Arif Hasan, Orangi Pilot Project
  
• Dr Magnus Marsden, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
  
• Professor the Baroness Afshar OBE, University of York
  
• Professor Mona Siddiqui, University of Glasgow
  
• Dr Sumi Madhok, London School of Economics
  
• Professor Charlotte Roueche, King's College
  

2008

• Dr Michel Boivin, Centre for South Asian Studies, School of Advanced Studies of Social Sciences, University of Paris
  
• Dr Ishrat Husain, Chairman of the National Commission for Government Reforms, Pakistan
  
• Dr Christian Lange, School of Divinity, Edinburgh University
  
• Mr Arif Hasan, Pakistan
  
• Dr Doris Behrens-Abouseif, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
  
• Dr Wen-Ching Ouyang, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
  
• Dr Matthew Nelson, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
  
• Dr Siddharth Saxena, Cambridge University
  
• Dr Hugh Kennedy, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
  
• Dr Venetia Porter, British Museum