Public lectures are presented by the Graduate Theological Union. Free and open to the public.

MAHAN MIRZA
Ph.D. Candidate, Yale University
Teaching fellow and Chaplain’s Office Muslim fellow, Yale University

Wednesday, January 31, 12:30-2:00 pm
Title: Islamic Studies at the GTU: Things to Consider
Richard S. Dinner Board Room, 2400 Ridge Road, third floor
                               
MUKHTAR ALI
Ph.D. Candidate, University of California, Berkeley
Guest Lecturer, Fatima Islamic Society of California, Los Angeles

Thursday, February 8, 12:30-2:00 pm
Title: Islamic Mysticism in the Context of the Islamic Sciences
Richard S. Dinner Board Room, 2400 Ridge Road, third floor

SYAFA’ATUN ALMIRZANAH
Ph.D. Candidate, Islamic University, Sunan Kalijaga and Lutheran School of Theology, Chicago
Chief Associate Professor of Comparative Religions, Islamic University Sunan Kalijaga in Yogyakarta, Indonesia

Tuesday, February 13, 12:30–2:00 pm
Title: To be religious is to be interreligious
Richard S. Dinner Board Room, 2400 Ridge Road, third floor

SADDEKA AREBI
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley
Department of Religious Studies, Santa Clara University

Thursday, February 22, 12:30-2:00 pm
Title: Discerning Islam: Access, Voice and Contexts of Interpretive Responsibility
Richard S. Dinner Board Room, 2400 Ridge Road, third floor

MUNIR JIWA
Ph.D. Columbia University
Mellon Post-doctoral Fellow, University of Toronto

Monday, February 26, 12:30-2:00 pm
Title: Imaging Islam, Mediating Muslims: Aesthetics, Politics and Religion
Richard S. Dinner Board Room, 2400 Ridge Road, third floor