Organized by Weatherhead Scholars Program Fellow (2021–2022) and Consul General Arnaud Mentré and cosponsored by the Consulate of France in Boston and Georgetown Law.
Over the last 30 years, the use of economic sanctions has become one of the most significant developments in the foreign policy of the United States and, more recently, of the European Union and its Member States. Sanctions have been used in a variety of international crises, with growing political and economic impact, as...
Organized by Weatherhead Scholars Program Fellow (2021–2022) and Consul General Arnaud Mentré and cosponsored by the Consulate of France in Boston and Georgetown Law.
Over the last 30 years, the use of economic sanctions has become one of the most significant developments in the foreign policy of the United States and, more recently, of the European Union and its Member States. Sanctions have been used in a variety of international crises, with growing political and economic impact, as...
Benny Miller, Visiting Scholar, Weatherhead Scholars Program. Full Professor of International Relations, School of Political Sciences, University of Haifa.
1:00PM - 2:30PM EDT | Panel 5: Shi’a Identities and Politics in the Modern Levant and Turkey
"Ambiguity and Interfaith Dialogues: Making and Unmaking Bonds between the Isma'ili Druze and the Twelver Shi'a in Lebanon" Rula Abisaab, McGill University.
"Lebanese Shi'a and Hezbollah: A Mutually Impacting Relationship" Aurelie Daher, Paris-Dauphine University.
"Becoming a Minority: Alawites and Identity Politics in Syria" Aghiad Ghanem, Sciences Po.
"State-Religion Relations and Alevis in Turkey" Mustafa Sen, Middle East Technical University.
"Baba Rexheb and the Bektashi Order: Between Sufism and Shi'ism" Seyed Amir Hossein Asghari, Indiana University.
2:00PM - 3:30PM EDT | Panel 4: Comparative Approaches towards Shi’a Theology and Philosophy
"Ismaili and Sufi Doctrines of Messianic Age, 4th-7th/10th-13th Centuries" Orkhan Mir-Kasimov, Institute of Ismaili Studies.
"Paradigms of Ethics in the Twelver Shii Tradition: A Schematic Approach" Nicholas Boylston, Seattle University.
"Islamic Theology in Thirty Topics: A Zaydi contribution to Islamic thought" Scott Lucas, University of Arizona.
"Survival and Loss: the Preservation and Recovery of the Arabic Legacy of Ismaili (Fatimid) Shiism in Modern Times" Paul Walker, University of Chicago.
1:00PM - 2:30PM EDT | Panel 3: Ismaili Traditions in Central and South Asia
"Central Asian Ismailis and their Traditions" Dagi Dagiev, Institute of Ismaili Studies.
"Ismaili History and Traditions in Afghanistan: A Sociological and Historical Analysis" Yahia Baiza, Institute of Ismaili Studies.
"Tradition and Ta'wil in the Construction of Bohra Identity in South Asia" Sumaiya Hamadani, George Mason University.
"Kalām-i Hazrat Sūltānil Aulīā or Kalām-e Maulā, a Satpanth Lyrical Text: Shared Heritage of Khoja Sunnis, Khoja Ithna 'Asharis and Ismailis from South Asia" Hussain Jasani, Institute of Ismaili Studies.
"Bohra Ritual Life: Everyday Practices and the Sacred Materiality of Objects" Olly Akkerman, Freie Universität Berlin.
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