Recent Events
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Faculty and Fellows Colloquium
Money, Power, and the State: Late Qing China in Comparative Perspective
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Stephen Halsey, Alice Kaplan Postdoctoral Fellow, Northwestern University
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*Friday, June 6, Noon - 1:00 pm, BCICS
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BCICS End of the Year Open House and Reception
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Tuesday, June 03, 4:00 - 6:00 pm
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Faculty and Fellows Colloquium
Blood Money and Homicide Litigation in Medieval Cairo and Damascus
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Carl Petry, Department of History, Northwestern University
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Friday, May 30, Noon - 1:00pm, BCICS
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Roberta Buffett Visiting Professorship Lecture
Mass Killing and Human Rights
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José Kagabo, Roberta Buffett Visiting Professor and École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in France
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Thursday, May 29, 4:00 - 5:30 pm, Harris Hall 108, 1881 Sheridan Road, Evanston
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Faculty and Fellows Colloquium
The New Thucydides
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Robert W. Wallace, Department of Classics, Northwestern University
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Friday, May 23, Noon - 1:00 pm, BCICS
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The Buffett Center for International and Comparative Studies and Northwestern Political Union Proudly Present
MURAVCHIK vs. KINZER - Intellectual Titans Collide
U.S. Intervention Abroad: Good or Bad
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Wednesday, May 21, Noon – 1:30 pm, 601 University Place, Scott Hall, Ripton Room
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Faculty Affiliate Publication

Stephen Kinzer, Charles Moskos Visiting Professor of Military Studies at the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences

A Thousand Hills: Rwanda's Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It

Professor Muhammad S. Umar Named Carnegie Scholar
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Muhammad S. Umar, associate professor of religion and African studies and director of the Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa at Northwestern University, has been named one of 20 Carnegie Scholars for 2008.
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For the fourth year the Carnegie Corporation of New York chose its scholars for their ideas and commitment to enriching the public dialogue on Islam. Umar’s proposal was titled “Pragmatism and Pluralism in the Traditional Islamic Thought of al-Shaykh Ibrahim Saleh of Nigeria.” He intends to analyze the writings of Saleh, a contemporary Nigerian public intellectual who articulates classical traditions of Islamic learning to support pragmatic solutions on topical issues such as pluralism and peaceful coexistence.
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The Carnegie Corporation will provide Umar two years of funding for his research. Umar expects that the book that he will write will provide an opportunity for fruitful dialogue on Islam among Nigerians.
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Umar joined the Northwestern faculty this academic year. His research interests include Islam and colonialism in West Africa, Islamic law, Sufism/anti-Sufism in West Africa, contemporary Islamic thought and liberalism, Islamic intellectual traditions of West Africa and the theory and methodology of academic study of religion.