Events

Date: November 19, 2024 | Time: 4:00 to 5:00 PM | Location: Zoom Register Here Description: In 2016, the Ontario Human Rights Commission (OHRC) began a public interest inquiry into Indigenous and racialized children’s and youth’s involvement with Ontario’s child welfare system. In their 2018 report, Interrupted Childhoods: Over-representation of Indigenous and Black Children in Ontario […]

Register Here Description: On any given day in Jordan, more than nine million residents eat approximately ten million loaves of khubz ‘arabi—the slightly leavened flatbread known to many as pita. Some rely on this bread to avoid starvation; for others it is a customary pleasure. Yet despite its ubiquity in accounts of Middle East politics and […]

Date: Friday, October 18, 2024  Time: 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm Location: BF 200B, Bancroft Building (4 Bancroft Avenue, Toronto) Register Here Description Exploring tensions between traditional orientations and modern subjectivities, the pursuit of enchantment, and existing in a disenchanted, secular world, Neo-traditionalism in Islam in the West examines neo-traditionalism, its public pedagogues and their students—seekers of sacred knowledge—in the […]

Register Here Date: October 19, 2024 Time: 2:00 PM Location: Aga Khan Museum, Nanji Family Foundation Auditorium, 77 Wynford Drive, Toronto, ON M3C 1K1 Published in 2022, Made for the Eye of One Who Sees: Canadian Contributions to the Study of Islamic Art and Archaeology was the first volume of essays to highlight the research of scholars, curators, and creative artists […]

Register Here Date: Monday, October 7, 2024 Time: 11:30 AM to 1:30 PM Location: JHB DSR Room 318, Dept for the Study of Religion, 170 St. George St. Toronto We are excited to announce an upcoming workshop titled “Science and Scripture in a Medieval Plague Treatise (Ibn Hajar’s Merits of the Plague).” This workshop will be led by Dr. […]

Register Here Description We are excited to announce a master class titled “Computational Hadith Studies: Survey of a New Field”. This master class will be led by Dr. Mairaj U. Syed.  This session is intended for a discussion among graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and faculty.  Date, Time and Format The 3-hour master class will be held […]

Register Here We are excited to announce a master class titled “Reason of State,” examining the German securitization of knowledge production concerning Palestine/Israel. This master class will be led by Dr. Schirin Amir-Moazami.  This session is a follow-up to a public lecture and is intended for a detailed discussion among graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and faculty. […]

Register Here We are excited to announce an upcoming workshop titled “Reason of state”, examining German securitization of knowledge production on Palestine/Israel. This workshop will be led by Schirin Amir-Moazami, Professor of Islam in Europe at the Institute of Islamic Studies, Freie Universitat Berlin on Wednesday, September 25th, 2024.  Workshop Abstract: In a speech at […]

Location: Zoom | Time: 2 pm to 4 pm | Date: Friday, October 11 Register Here The Fall 2024 and Winter 2025 schedule is as follows: TBA Workshop Presenter: Dilyara Agisheva Dilyara Agisheva is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Islamic Studies, University of Toronto. Our workshop series aims to investigate the transformations in Islamic law under the influence of imperial powers, […]

Event: In-person Date: Wednesday, May 8 Time: 12:00 pm -2:00 pm  Location: Natalie Zemon Davis Conference Room, SS 2098, Department of Art History In-person Event: Register Here – Space is Limited A light lunch will be served. The Islamic Art and Material Culture Collaborative is pleased to announce a roundtable discussion featuring IAMCC co-chairs in conversation with guest panelists. As digital tools increasingly shape public […]

Event: Hybrid Date: Saturday March 16, 2024 Time: 11 am – 12:30 pm (refreshments will be served) Venue: Seminar Room, SS 6032, Department of Art History In-person Event: Register Here – Space is Limited (Capacity Restricted) Virtual Event: Register Here It is the digital in the digital humanities that awakens both expectations and desires that can lead to epistemological aberrations. This applies […]

The Institute of Islamic Studies is excited to host a dialogue between the Canada Revenue Agency and Muslim-led charity sector. Background:Muslim communities had long expressed concerns about targeting, selection, and audits of their charitable organizations, but there was little research done to examine the specifics of this issue. In 2021, the IIS & NCCM launched […]

Mohammad H. Fadel will present his new book at the Faculty of Law on Thursday, November 23rd at 12:30 PM. Register Here Description: From the Lockwood Press website:   Mohammad Fadel’s scholarship on Islamic law and legal history ranges from medieval institutions and the history of Islamic legal interpretation to urgent problems relating to the modern […]

Critical perspectives on systemic Islamophobia: Current Research, Lived Realities & Possible Futures.  Date: Sept 28th: 10:30am-12:30pm – (with the Panel-10:30-11:30 & Lunch-11:30-12:30)  Location: Collaborative Digital Research Space CDRS is located on Mississauga campus – Maanjiwe Nendamowinan building, UTM, 3359 Mississauga Rd, Mississauga   Register Here Description: This panel will bring together scholars examining critical perspectives on systemic Islamophobia in Canadian contexts. The […]

Date: Monday September 25, 2023  Time: 10am – 1pm (includes lunch for participants)  Venue: History Department Seminar Room, Sidney Smith Hall   REGISTER HERE Overview: In this graduate masterclass, contemporary Egyptian artist Huda Lutfi will share her experiences of creating her recent installation Inside the Black Enclosure for the inaugural Islamic Arts Biennale which was held from January 23–May 23, 2023 […]

ROM ConnectsHuda Lufti in Conversation: Translating Sufi Teachings into a Visual LanguageDate: Sunday, September 24, 2023, 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm EDT Description: Explore the art and influences of Sufism and gender dynamics with contemporary Egyptian artist Huda Lutfi. Drawing inspiration from the urban culture of Cairo, her works explore the question: who are we when […]

We’re excited to announce that Dr. Tasniem Anwar (Criminology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) will be giving a talk at the Institute of Islamic Studies on Tuesday March 7th, at 12:30pm. Virtual Registration In-Person Registration (limited capacity): RSVP via email by Fri March 3 through islamicstudies@utoront.ca Description: Twenty years after 9/11, policies to control and disrupt the financial sources of […]

**La version française suit / The French version follows** We’re excited to announce that the Muslims in Canada Archives (MiCA) will co-host with C.O.R (Communication pour l’ouverture et le rapprochement interculturel) a community forum in Montreal on Thursday, December 8th, 2022 to introduce MiCA-Quebec to the Montreal Muslim communities. With opening remarks from MP Sameer […]

The Canadian Race Relations Foundation (CRRF) is pleased to announce a national hybrid event in celebration of Canada’s Islamic History Month.  Stereotyping, racism and Islamophobia have long been persistent in Western constructs of Muslim identities. Discrimination against Muslim communities has gained momentum in online and offline spaces, leading to detrimental threats to the safety and […]

MiCA presents on our work from the past year as well as a look into where we are heading Date: March 31, 2022 Time: 6pm to 8pm EDT REGISTER Since the Muslims in Canada Archives’ inception in 2019, we have grown significantly from concept to full-fledged archives. We want to dedicate this time to present […]

MiCA hosts Sean Smith from the Archives of Ontario as he presents archival news footage of Muslims in London, Ontario from the mid-1900s. Date and time Thu, February 24, 2022 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM EST Register About this event Join us as we look back in time to a period when the Canadian Muslim […]

Brief description: Virtual panel discussion on the new and complex ways in which museums and galleries of Islamic art use objects today to communicate broader ideas and narratives in various global contexts. Date: Saturday, February 12, 2022 Time: 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM (EST) REGISTER HERE **Please note that the event will not be recorded.** About […]

MiCA hosts a presentation about the redevelopment and lived experiences of Muslim youth in Toronto’s Regent Park. About this event Urban studies researchers across the world have been studying Regent Park’s billion-dollar redevelopment process and how the newly “revitalized” mixed-income neighborhood has affected long-time social housing residents, who are primarily Muslim immigrants (Brail and Kumar, […]

At this joint book talk, we put two new and formidable books into conversation: God’s Property: Islam, Charity, and the Modern State (University of California Press, 2021), by Nada Moumtaz, and Transformations of Tradition: Islamic Law in Colonial Modernity (University of Oxford Press, 2021), by Junaid Quadri. Each of these works tells a story about the gradual, piece-meal shifts in Muslim […]

MiCA presents a storytelling and photography workshop with Alia Youssef. About this event Many of our most cherished memories come out of time spent with loved ones. With December breaks coming soon, and restrictions easing, opportunities to create more are just around the corner. Alia Youssef, a skilled portrait and documentary photographer, is hosting a […]

MiCA presents a talk about the development of community archives at the Shingwauk Residential School Centre. About this event The residential school system in Canada was created to forcefully assimilate Indigenous children into settler society. It was only recently that the last residential school closed in Canada, and the harm it has caused cannot be […]

MiCA hosts Ismael Mukhtar during Islamic Heritage Month as he discusses his new book “Manitoba Muslims: a History of Resilience and Growth”. About this event Muslim communities have existed in Manitoba for well over a century, constantly growing and changing. Despite this, these groups, along with their triumphs and struggles, have been largely excluded from […]

Part of the Community Collaboration Learning Series, this conversation explores the creation and use of oral histories. No human story exists in isolation. Lived experience is full of interconnections with a diverse population of individuals and with other communities beyond the ones we are part of. Through conversation between a community archivist and a community […]

Part of the Community Collaborations Learning Series, this discussion questions archival practice in silenced, underrepresented communities. Who is found in the Canadian archival records? Who is not? What is considered “history” has been created and written by those in power. Then what does it mean to archive the silenced, the underrepresented, and the “mundane”? What […]

The Muslims in Canada Archives (MiCA) will be hosting Murray Hogben on Zoom for a talk about his recently released book. ‘Minarets on the Horizon’ is a collection of stories about some of the earliest Muslim Canadians, and the Muslim community that has existed since. The talk will aim to cover topics such as the […]

Azra Aksamija explores how art, architecture, and design can address the needs of displaced people. Design for a Nomadic World: The Future Heritage Lab Azra Aksamija, Director of the MIT Future Heritage Lab and Associate Professor, Department of Architecture, Program in Art, Culture and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA, USA In this conversation, […]

Islamic Art and Material Culture Collaborative (IAMCC) showcases project of Senior Fellows: Samantha Summers and Rebecca Tunney IAMCC Senior Fellows Showcase: Metalworks, Medieval Mosul, Minecraft, and Museums As part of its mandate to foster innovative and interdisciplinary research on Islamic art and material culture, the IAMCC’s Fellowship Program provides collaborative learning opportunities for student researcher […]

Sara Ouhaddou discusses working w/ female weavers in the Atlas Mountains, potters in Marrakesh, and young female embroiderers in Tetouan. In this conversation, Dr Mariam Rosser-Owen of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, will speak with the French-Moroccan artist, Sara Ouhaddou, about her past projects working with female weavers in the Atlas Mountains, with potters […]

Anver Emon, Nadia Hasan, Zeinab Farokhi In this discussion, hosted by Zeinab Farokhi, Professor Anver Emon and Dr. Nadia Hasan share findings on how biases in Canada’s anti-terrorism financing and anti-radicalization regimes disproportionately target Muslim-led charities, leading to the revocation of their charitable status. The full report can be found at: layeredsuspicion.ca The authors also discuss […]

In this conversation, Seif El Rashidi will discuss the over one thousand-year-old tradition of textile appliqué work (khayamiyya) in Egypt. This conversation explores the over one thousand-year-old tradition of textile appliqué work (khayamiyya) in Egypt, which continues to thrive in the ‘Street of the Tentmakers’ in the heart of historic Cairo’s bustling center. Seif El […]

This webinar shares how MiCDI’s inaugural project can help improve the data and understanding of Muslims in Canada. In the second webinar of a two-part series, researchers from the newly launched Muslims in Canada Data Initiative (MiCDI) share the opportunities and projects that can help improve our data and understanding of Muslims in Canada. In […]

This webinar introduces audience to the Muslims In Canada Data Initiative, covers available data, and what it does and doesn’t tell us. The Institute of Islamic Studies (IIS) is pleased to launch the Muslims in Canada Data Initiative (MiCDI). MiCDI aims to improve the quality of data and understanding of Canadian Muslims to support better […]

Dr Leslee Michelsen, Curator of Collections and Exhibitions, Shangri La Museum of Islamic Art, Culture & Design, Honolulu, HI, USA This conversation will focus on the ways in which museums have contributed to the development and promotion of the craft heritage sector through exhibitions, publications, and commissions, with a focus on projects undertaken by the […]

Professor Marcus Milwright discusses the distinctions made between Islamic art and craft. This conversation will focus on the ways in which the crafts of the Islamic world have been represented in scholarship and in contemporary art and museum practice. A particular issue in this respect is the imposition of a dichotomy, derived from Western European […]

Anver Emon, Hoda El Shakry, Haytham Bahoora The webinar will feature a discussion with Professor Hoda El Shakry on her book The Literary Qur’an, which integrates conversations between the hubs of Reading Practices and the Anthropology of Islam, as it contests the categories of “literary” and “religion” and “Islam” in the context of North African […]

Launch webinar for the Reading Muslims project; a re-examination of textuality in Islamic Studies. This webinar will launch the conversations that sit at the core of the Reading Muslims project, an inter- and multidisciplinary inquiry into the relationship between textuality and power surrounding Islamic texts. The webinar will bring together academics and scholars to discuss […]

Part 3 of the series: “Muslims in Canada Archives: The Power of Your Stories, Through Your Stuff” In the final webinar session for our series “Muslims in Canada Archives: The Power of Your Stories, Through Your Stuff,” Moska Rokay (Project Lead, Muslims in Canada Archives) will outline how you, the community, can be involved with […]

Documentation and Practice from Iraq, Jordan, Netherlands. Fatima Abbadi, embroiderer, photographer, Capelle aan den Ijssel, Netherlands. According to Fatima Abbadi, a photographer and practising embroiderer and collector of Jordanian and Palestinian embroidered dress, “So much can be said from a small piece of hand-embroidered cloth. With every stitch it can reveal many women’s hidden stories […]

Part 2 of the series: “Muslims in Canada Archives: The Power of Your Stories, Through Your Stuff” In the second part of our series “Muslims in Canada Archives: The Power of Your Stories, Through Your Stuff,” Moska Rokay (Project Lead, Muslims in Canada Archives) and Hassam Munir (MA student in History, University of Toronto) , […]

Part 1 of the series: “Muslims in Canada Archives: The Power of Your Stories, Through Your Stuff” This is the first of three webinars in a series titled “Muslims in Canada Archives: The Power of Your Stories, Through Your Stuff,” designed to introduce people to the Muslims in Canada (MiCA) project. This webinar will help […]

Embroidery from Palestine: Disciplining the Past to Craft the Future In this conversation Omar will talk about his experiences working to document and understand certain techniques of embroidery and rural textile traditions from Palestine. He will focus on the techniques themselves, the people he has worked with, and some of the ideas he has developed […]

Khaled Fahmy, Professor of Arabic Studies at Cambridge University, will present on his book In Quest of Justice. In his award winning book, In Quest of Justice: Islamic Law and Forensic Medicine in Modern Egypt, Professor Khaled Fahmy (Cambridge University) will address the evolution of Islamic legal practices drawing upon his extensive archive of materials […]

Omniya Abdel Barr discusses the “Rescuing the Mamluk Minbars Project of Cairo” and its impact on contemporary Egyptian craft and design. In this conversation, Dr Omniya Abdel Barr of the Egyptian Heritage Rescue Foundation (EHRF) will present the Rescuing the Mamluk Minbars of Cairo Project, which aims to support the Egyptian government to document, restore […]