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Nature & Islamic Creative Expressions: February 6-7, 2026 | Cahoots, 206 E Huron St, Ann Arbor, MI 48104", "event_subtitle":"February 6-7, 2026 | Cahoots, 206 E Huron St, Ann Arbor, MI 48104", "event_type":"Conference \/ Symposium", "event_type_id":"5", "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\u2019s relationship to the natural world over the centuries and consider how Islamic thought and Muslim traditions offer alternative solutions to today\u2019s 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 Haugb\u00f8lle | 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, \u201cIndoor, Outdoor, and in Between: Water in Ottoman Mosques\u201d\nElizabeth Rauh, \u201cDraining Eden: The Ecocide of the Iraqi Wetlands\u201d\nAliyah Khan, \u201cMuharram in the Caribbean: Drowned Model Tombs and the Oceanic Return to Karbala\u201d\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, \u201cPerfection in Bloom: Ottoman Writing About Flowers, 1650-1750 CE\u201d\nChristiane Gruber, \u201cGod's Greenhouses: Agricultural Mosques and Phyto-Aesthetics in Rural Anatolia\u201d\nCharlotte Maury, \u201cVisual Representations of the Vital Force of Plants in Islamic Art and its Relation to Animality\u201d\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, \u201cFrom the \u2018City of Gardens\u2019 to \u2018Smog Capital of the World\u2019: Ecological Dystopias and Imaginaries in Lahore, Pakistan\u201d\nMohamed Amer Meziane, \u201cWho Makes the Anthropocene: Islam, Ecology, and the Environmental History of *Orientalism\u201d*\nGohar Dashti, \u201cGeometries of Belonging: A New Look at Nature Through an Eastern Perspective\u201d\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, \u201cThe Art of Oil Resistance in the Niger Delta\u201d\nKatherine Bartsch, \u201cEphemeral Mosques: Mapping a Network of Faith in Australia\u2019s Unforgiving Desert Interior\u201d\nSune Haugb\u00f8lle, \u201cNeom\/Nature: Regreening and Sociotechnical Imaginaries in Saudi Arabia\u201d\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. 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