This past April I had the pleasure of joining many wonderful scholars to explore the intersections of Islamic and Chinese civilizations in various forms. My presentation, “Approaching the Qur’an in China,” was thinking about some of the thematic topics and approaches that are found in Chinese translations of the Qur’an. The complete program is here.
I’m excited to head off to Istanbul next week for the 2nd annual International Conference on Religion & Film taking place on 21-24 May 2015. My presentation will be a comparative analysis of the representation of Muslims in The Hurt Locker (2008) and American Sniper (2014). My abstract is below. The rest of the program can be found here. For God and…
I am excited to head to San Diego for a busy AAR meeting. Here is some of what Ill be up to. On Friday 11/21 we will lead THATCamp (The Humanities and Technology Camp) for the second year in a row. I will be hosting a workshop on Podcasting in Religious Studies with Brent Plate…
View this post on Instagram Marshall Hodgson, The Venture of #Islam Vol. 1 A post shared by Kristian Petersen (@babakristian) on Aug 5, 2014 at 2:39pm PDT I am very excited to participate in the Islamicate Studies Symposium in honor of the 40th anniversary of Marshall Hodgson’s magistral work, The Venture of Islam. The event will be held…
I am giving a lecture on the Qur’an in China at the University of South Carolina on September 8th. The event is sponsored by the Center for Asian Studies, the Program in Islamic World Studies, and the Walker Institute of International and Area Studies. I appreciate the invitation from the Director of the Center of Asian Studies, Michael Gibbs Hill.
This past spring I was invited to give the keynote address at the Annual Central Eurasian Studies Conference at the University of Indiana. In my talk, Even Unto China: Interpreting Islam in Dialogue, I tried to address some of the difficult theoretical issues that arise in examining cultures in contact, and especially within Islamic Studies. Notions of center…
Back in the spring of 2013 Ali Asani invited me to give a talk at the Harvard University Asia Center as part of their Islam in Asia Seminar Series. It was a wonderful experience overall, not least because I was able to meet some excellent scholars for the first time in person (Nancy Steinhardt, Devin Fitzgerald, Eric Schluessel,…
THATCamp (The Humanities and Technology Camp) is what they call an unconference. What that means is participants run the show on the fly based on the needs, desires, and skills of everyone who showed up. They are interactive and thought provoking and you should definitely head to your nearest one to check out what everyone is…
In the spring of 2013, I participated in a wonderful conference organized by the Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley called Forms of Exchange: China and the Muslim World. There were lots of great friends there and I made many new ones. My presentation was titled “Textual Contacts, Qur’anic Journeys, and Interpretive…
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