Drawing from his new book, Ghosts of Segregation: American Racism, Hidden in Plain Sight, B. Brian Foster tells a collection of stories that together show the importance of seeing the environment-the buildings we enter, the roads we travel, the things we are surrounded by-as part of…
Perilous Intimacies explores how leading South Asian Muslim thinkers imagined and contested the boundaries of Hindu-Muslim friendship from the mid-eighteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries. Based on the close reading of an expansive and multifaceted archive of Arabic, Persian, and…
Different parts of the world are said to have "entered modernity" – a tenuous phrase at best – at different times. For Southeast Asia, there is an argument to be made that this transition was happening just as we move into the eighteenth century. How and why was this the…
In her new book, Beyond Sectarianism, Tehseen Thaver offers a fundamental reevaluation of how one should think about the relationship between the Qur’an, Shi‘ism, and religious identity. This book focuses on the literary Arabic Qur’an exegesis of the highly influential yet less…
Join B. Brian Foster, an ethnographer and multi-medium storyteller, and Lehigh University Art Galleries (LUAG) Curator of Education, Stacie Brennan for an Art in Dialogue discussion about Nellie Mae Rowe and the importance of her artwork and its intersection with Black…