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SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:GISC Conference. Nature & Islamic Creative Expressions
DESCRIPTION:Nature & Islamic Creative Expressions\nFebruary 6-7\, 2026\nCahoots\, 206 E Huron St\, Ann Arbor\, MI 48104\nVisit https://myumi.ch/9p8xx for full conference details.\n\nThe Nature and Islamic Creative Expressions conference\, organized jointly by Aliyah Khan\, Director of the Global Islamic Studies Center (GISC) and Associate Professor\, and Christiane Gruber\, Professor in the Department of the History of Art and founder of Khamseen: Islamic Art History Online\, will be held at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor on February 6-7\, 2026. A dozen scholars and practitioners of global Islamic art and narratives will examine Islam’s relationship to the natural world over the centuries and consider how Islamic thought and Muslim traditions offer alternative solutions to today’s ecological challenges.\n   \n   We study and leverage the intersections of ecology and spirituality by drawing on the deep knowledge of diverse fields\, including art history\, Islamic philosophy and theology\, Muslim cultural studies\, literary studies\, architecture\, and community activism in locales from the Ottoman Empire to Iran\, Pakistan\, Saudi Arabia\, Nigeria\, and Trinidad. Our aim is to identify what historical and contemporary Islamic perspectives on nature offer to unfolding global conversations about the earth and our shared and symbiotic human\, animal\, and plant futures\, thus building sustainable futures and potentially interrupting the Anthropocene.\n   \n   Featuring the work of:\n   Christiane Gruber | University of Michigan\, Organizer\n   Aliyah Khan | University of Michigan\, Organizer\n   Omolade Adunbi | University of Michigan\n   Katherine Bartsch | University of Adelaide\, Australia\n   Patricia Blessing | Stanford University\n   Gohar Dashti | Visual Artist\n   Anna M. Gade | University of Wisconsin\, Madison\n   Sune Haugbølle | Roskilde University\, Denmark\n   Charlotte Maury | Louvre Museum\, Paris\n   Mohamed Amer Meziane | Brown University\n   Amanda Phillips | University of Virginia\n   Elizabeth Rauh | The American University in Cairo\n   Saleema Waraich | Skidmore College\n\n*Friday\, February 6\, 2026: Past and Present*\n\nWelcome (9:30AM-10AM): Christiane Gruber and Aliyah Khan \n\nMorning Panel 1 (10:00AM-12:00PM): Collecting\, Draining\, and Drowning in Water\nPatricia Blessing\, “Indoor\, Outdoor\, and in Between: Water in Ottoman Mosques”\nElizabeth Rauh\, “Draining Eden: The Ecocide of the Iraqi Wetlands”\nAliyah Khan\, “Muharram in the Caribbean: Drowned Model Tombs and the Oceanic Return to Karbala”\nModerator: Charlotte Karem Albrecht\, Director\, Arab and Muslim American Studies Program\n\nLunch (12:00PM-1:30PM)  \n\nAfternoon Panel 2 (1:30PM-3:30PM): Plant Vitalities\nAmanda Phillips\, “Perfection in Bloom: Ottoman Writing About Flowers\, 1650-1750 CE”\nChristiane Gruber\, “God's Greenhouses: Agricultural Mosques and Phyto-Aesthetics in Rural Anatolia”\nCharlotte Maury\, “Visual Representations of the Vital Force of Plants in Islamic Art and its Relation to Animality”\nModerator: Paroma Chatterjee\, Chair\, Department of the History of Art \n\n*Saturday\, February 7\, 2026: Futurities*\n\nMorning Panel 3 (10:00AM-12:00PM): Green Futures\nSaleema Waraich\, “From the ‘City of Gardens’ to ‘Smog Capital of the World’: Ecological Dystopias and Imaginaries in Lahore\, Pakistan”\nMohamed Amer Meziane\, “Who Makes the Anthropocene: Islam\, Ecology\, and the Environmental History of *Orientalism”*\nGohar Dashti\, “Geometries of Belonging: A New Look at Nature Through an Eastern Perspective”\nModerator: Aseman Talebi\, Ph.D. Candidate\, Department of the History of Art \n\nLunch (12:00PM-1:30PM)\n\nAfternoon Panel 4 (1:30PM-3:30PM): Oil and Desert Ecologies\nOmolade Adunbi\, “The Art of Oil Resistance in the Niger Delta”\nKatherine Bartsch\, “Ephemeral Mosques: Mapping a Network of Faith in Australia’s Unforgiving Desert Interior”\nSune Haugbølle\, “Neom/Nature: Regreening and Sociotechnical Imaginaries in Saudi Arabia”\nModerator: Sena Duran\, Ph.D. Candidate\, Department of American Culture \n\nBreak (3:30PM-3:45PM)\n\nClosing Remarks (3:45PM-4:30PM): Anna Gade\n\nTo read about the papers being presented\, speaker bios\, & to register to attend\, please visit: https://myumi.ch/9p8xx   \n   The Nature and Islamic Creative Expressions conference is free and open to all University of Michigan students\, faculty\, staff\, and the public. All sessions will be held at the Cahoots Ann Arbor Event Space\, 206 E. Huron St.\, Ann Arbor\, Michigan 48104.\n   \n   This conference is brought to you by the Global Islamic Studies Center and the Department of the History of Art\, and cosponsored by: the Institute for the Humanities\, the College of Literature\, Science\, and the Arts\, the Department of American Culture\, the Arab and Muslim American Studies Program\, the Program in the Environment\, the Center for Middle Eastern & North African Studies and the Islamophobia Working Group.\n   \n\nAccommodation: If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange. Email: -- islamicstudies@umich.edu
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CATEGORIES:african diaspora,Arab And Muslim American Studies,African Studies,Visual Arts,Global Islamic Studies,Arts of Islam,Art History,Art,Area Studies
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DTSTAMP:20250731T161854
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260206T093000
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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:MORE Committee Workshop (FACULTY): Getting Your Mentoring Relationship Off to a Good Start
DESCRIPTION:Developed by the MORE Committee\, this workshop helps enhance the mentoring relationship between the student and faculty mentor by facilitating the development of shared expectations. Mentors and mentees work independently in separate sessions to identify their own objectives and styles\, and consider strategies for dealing with possible challenges. Then\, student-faculty pairs work together to develop a written mentoring plan as a means of codifying some of the most important elements (needs\, goals\, mutual expectations) of a two-way mentoring relationship. Among Rackham doctoral students who have written mentoring plans\, 83 percent find those plans useful. Registration and attendance at the same workshop are required of both the faculty and the student. Separate registration for students is available at: https://myumi.ch/6167J.
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