Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies

Thursday, April 23, 2026

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  Talk: On Beginnings, or the Roots and Routes of the Nested Memory Concept, Helen Makhdoumian , Postdoctoral Program fellow at Vanderbilt University

  5:00 pm

  Levis Faculty Center Room 208, 919 W. Illinois St., Urbana

  • Lecture

Monday, April 27, 2026

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  Seeing Sovereignty: Hamida Banu Begam's Portraits and Gendered Power

  5:30 pm

  Levis Faculty Center, Room 208

  • Lecture

Thursday, April 30, 2026

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  Book Talk: Zoning Faith: How City Politics Shape Muslim Communities in Chicago, Sultan Tepe

  4:00 pm

  Illini Union Bookstore 2nd floor Author's Corner 809 S Wright St, Champaign, IL 61820

  • Lecture