Institute of the Humanities & Global Cultures
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Other Events at UVA

See the list below of other events from other research centers and programs happening around UVA Grounds. IHGC staff will populate this page as events approach, and will remove events after they have taken place:

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    January 31: "Catholicism Represented: Democracy, Religion, & Global History, 1789-2025" 

    • 3PM-5PM
    • Nau Hall 101
    • The 2025 UVA Catholic Studies lecture features John McGreevy, University of Notre Dame Provost, who will examine the long and tangled modern history of Catholicism and democracy, with one eye toward its implications for global history and another toward our understanding of the present moment.

 

 

  • February 3: "Marco Polo’s Description of the World and French Exploration of the Americas"

    • 5PM - 6PM
    • Gibson 341
    • Medieval Studies presents a lecture by Markus Cruse, Professor of French, Arizona State. This presentation discusses the influence of Marco Polo’s Description of the World influenced specifically French cosmography, exploration, and colonization. Interested parties can learn more by emailing Deborah McGrady at dlm4z@virginia.edu.

 

  • February 6: Workshop: "An Introduction to Andalusi Sufi Music"

    • 2PM - 3:15PM
    • Contemplative Commons 300 (Studio 3B)
    • Join the Contemplative Sciences Center and partners for this hands-on workshop, "An Introduction to Andalusi Sufi Music." This event is hosted by the Islamic Worlds Initiative, the Forum on Religion and Democracy, the Department of Religious Studies, and the Contemplative Sciences Center. Find out more here!

 

  • February 6: Concert: "الشفاء في الشتاء (Al-Shifā' fī'l-Shitā') / Healing in the Winter: An Evening of Sufi Music with the Al-Firdaus Ensemble"

    • 7PM - 8PM
    • Contemplative Commons 300 (Studio 3B)
    • Join the Contemplative Sciences Center and partners for "الشفاء في الشتاء (Al-Shifā' fī'l-Shitā') / Healing in the Winter: An Evening of Sufi Music with the Al-Firdaus Ensemble." We are also holding a workshop, An Introduction to Andalusi Sufi Music, 2:00-3:15pm on the same day, February 6, 2025. This event is hosted by the Islamic Worlds Initiative, the Forum on Religion and Democracy, the Department of Religious Studies, and the Contemplative Sciences Center. Find out more here!

 

  • February 7: "New Insights for Old Heads"

    • 3:15PM - 4:30PM
    • New Cabell Hall 232
    • UVA East Asia Center and Fralin Museum of Art presents a talk by Dr. Rebecca Hall, Curator at the USC Pacific Asia Museum. She will be discussing how the perspective of contemporary artists whose communities have been impacted by war and theft can play a central role in our discussions. Find out more here!

 

  • February 20: "Lindner Lecture: Building an Ontology of Art: Hindustani Painting as a Case Study"

    • 6:30PM
    • Campbell 160
    • Murad Khan Mumtaz is an Associate Professor in the Art Department at Williams College (and UVA Art Department Alum). Islamic art is often misrepresented as an iconophobic tradition. As a result of this assumption, the polyvalence of figural artworks made for Hindustan’s Muslim audiences has remained hidden in plain view. By combining an art historical survey with an analysis of primary Indo-Persian literature, this talk shows how figurative painting was intimately linked to a unique Indo-Muslim religious expression that had a wide circulation across South Asia. Murad examines historical intersections of art, literature and religious expression in South Asia, with a primary focus on Indo-Muslim patronage. By combining art history with textual analysis, his recent book, Faces of God: Images of Devotion in Indo-Muslim Painting (Brill, 2023), examines the cultural contexts within which these Islamicate images of devotion were made and viewed. Murad is also an artist trained in traditional Hindustani painting techniques which he teaches at Williams. His work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions internationally.

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