2021 Lectures

“ᎤᏁᎳᏅᎯ ᎤᏩᏒ ᎨᏎᎢ” From Islamic Sources to Iroquoian Inscriptions

“ᎤᏁᎳᏅᎯ ᎤᏩᏒ ᎨᏎᎢ” From Islamic Sources to Iroquoian Inscriptions

AVACGIS Guest Lecture Series with Jeffrey Einboden (Northern Illinois University)

Tuesday, November 16, 2021 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM EST
Zoom Virtual Event

Recent years have witnessed increasing critical attention devoted to Islamic influences in early America. This lecture considers the diverse receptions of Islam that impacted the rise of Indigenous print cultures, revealing the rich Islamic interests that helped catalyze historic publications in Iroquoian languages.

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Mass-producing the cosmos: visuality and divination from manuscript to lithograph in 19th-century South Asia

Mass-producing the cosmos: visuality and divination from manuscript to lithograph in 19th-century South Asia

AVACGIS Guest Lecture Series with Nur Sobers-Khan

Wednesday, May 19, 2021 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM EDT
Zoom Virtual Event

Nur Sobers-Khan's paper explores the genealogy of Tilsimat-i Aja’ib (Talismans of Wonder) texts, a genre that features elements of cosmology and divination, in Urdu lithographs of the 19th and early 20th century in the British Library’s collections, examining the illustrative programs in these texts and positing a continuity with the Persian Aja’ib al-Makhluqat (Wonders of Creation) manuscript tradition.

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