Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies

Saturday, December 21, 2024

- 6:00 pm
- University YMCA 1001 S Wright St. Champaign
Yalda Night celebration
- Ceremony/Service

Friday, January 31, 2025

- 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
<SAS Friday Talks @ 11> Sonal Mithal, Lucknow Queerscapes: Architecture and the Colonial Archive
- Lecture
- 12:00 pm
- 404 David Kinley Hall 1407 W Gregory Dr. Urbana
Dr. Marwa Shalaby, How Parliaments Matter: "Policy and Opposition in the Middle East’s Authoritarian Legislatures"
- Lecture

Thursday, February 6, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- Illini Union Bookstore 2nd floor Author's Corner 809 S. Wright St.
Dr. Tarek El Ariss, Book Talk "Water on Fire: A Memoir of War"
- Lecture

Friday, February 21, 2025

- 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
<SAS Friday Talks @ 11> Sana Saboowala, Stress-Related Narratives in Oral Histories with South Asian Immigrants to the United States
- Lecture

Friday, February 28, 2025

- All Day
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
The Multilingual Mediterranean: Winter 2025 Workshop
- Conference/Workshop

Saturday, March 1, 2025

- All Day
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
The Multilingual Mediterranean: Winter 2025 Workshop
- Conference/Workshop

Tuesday, March 4, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- Illini Union Bookstore 2nd floor Author's Corner 809 S Wright St, Champaign, IL 61820
Dr. Huda Fakhreddine Translation of Ibrahim Nasrallah's Book "Palestinian" and Salim Barakat’s poetry, "The Universe, All at Once"
- Ceremony/Service

Tuesday, March 25, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- 1080 LCLB- Lucy Ellis Lounge & Conference Center 707 Mathew Ave Urbana
Dr. Abigail Balbale, “The Sight That I Offer is the Fairest of Sights”: Ivory, Concubines, and Transcultural Exchange in Umayyad Cordoba
- Lecture

Friday, March 28, 2025

- 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
<SAS Friday Talks @ 11> Megha Anwer, Screening Precarity: Pathaan and the Muslim Question in Neoliberal India
- Lecture

Thursday, April 10, 2025

- 4:00 pm
- Lincoln Hall 702 S. Wright St. Urbana Room 1090
Dr. Lauren Osborne Book Talk: "Hearing Islam, The Sounds of a Global Religious Tradition"
- Lecture

Friday, April 25, 2025

- 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
<SAS Friday Talks @ 11> Deepasri Baul, The Festival, the Mohalla and the City: Bakr-Id Riots and the politics of urban space in Delhi, 1924-26
- Lecture