Dr. Jessica Soedirgo, SFS Postdoctoral Fellow,ย gave a virtual talk hosted by the Alwaleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, co-sponsored by the Asian Studies Program and the Berkley Center,ย on religious and ethnic…
A panel discussion, co-sponsored by the African Studies Program focused on current political events in Ethiopia, particularly as connected to religious and ethnic tensions.
In this video lecture, Dr. Mubbashir Rizvi from Georgetown University's Department of Anthropology talks about the history of Black American Muslims and the legacy of the Black American Muslim community.
In the spring of 2020, ACMCU hosted a multi-speaker panel event held in Georgetown's Copley Formal Lounge entitled, "The Challenge of Pluralism in the 21st Century." In this video captured…
In the Spring of 2020, Fr. Hariawan Adji gave a talk at ACMCU on the topic of religious pluralism in Indonesia and the relationship between Muslim and Christian groups in…
In this lecture, hosted by ACMCU in December of 2019, Dr. Mohamed Nawab Osman examines Islamophobia in India as an outcome of attempts by the current Indian government to create…
In the Fall of 2019, ACMCU hosted the Yalla Ila Amrika Panel featuring four expert scholars talking about the Arab Christian diaspora in Latin America.
Play Youtube Video “Beyond Timbuktu,” a book talk with Dr. Ousmane Kane In October 2019, Dr. Ousmane Kane presented at ACMCU a book talk on his new book Beyond Timbuktu:…
Play Youtube Video Description: On Wednesday, October 9th, Dr. Muqtedar Khan spoke at ACMCU and gave a presentation on the topics covered in his new book, Islam and Good…
Play Youtube Video Description: In September of 2019, ACMCU presented a book talk featuring Dr. Mohammad Hassan Khalil entitled, “Islam and the New Atheism.” This video showcases that presentation in…
Georgetown University President John J. DeGioia and ACMCU hosted Dato’ Seri Anwar Ibrahim and ACMCU Founding Director Dr. John L. Esposito for a dialogue on governance, contemporary politics, and interfaith…
February 6th, 2019 - Fr. Thomas Michel, S.J., Professor of Religion, Xavier Learning Community, spoke at ACMCU on the Jesuit history within Thailand and the research he has conducted relating…
December 5th, 2018 – Dr. Abbas Jamshidi, Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Maryland, College Park, spoke at ACMCU on the representation of the “other” within Persian literature.
Play Youtube Video November 28th, 2018 – Since 2017, up to a million Turkic Muslim people have been interned in Xinjiang, China in a growing gulag of “re-education” camps explicitly…
Play Youtube Video November 27th, 2018 – Dr. Juan Cole, Professor of History at the University of Michigan, spoke at ACMCU on themes of peace in the Meccan chapters of…
Play Youtube Video October 31st, 2018 – Filmmaker and Al Jazeera America journalist Laila Al-Arian presented her Emmy Award winning documentary, “The Ban: the human cost of Trump’s Travel Ban”…
Play Youtube Video October 31st, 2018 – Gravestones can be used to document and explain the exceptional internal diversity of the Muslim community of southeast Michigan. In reality, this is…
Play Youtube Video October 5th, 2018 – New research has definitively overturned the mistaken notion that the late medieval Islamic world was a period of intellectual stagnation. Particularly in the…
Play Youtube Video October 3rd, 2018 – Dr. Pouya Alimagham is a historian of the modern Middle East. He specializes on Iran, Iraq, and the Levant in the 20th century,…
Play Youtube Video October 2nd, 2018 – Indonesia is experiencing an Islamic renaissance: a flowering of religious ideas, art, literature, architecture, institutions, and intellectual creativity, stimulated by civil freedoms, democracy,…
