Moynihan Middle Eastern Studies presents:

MES Spring Symposium: Inventing the Muslim World and Islamophobia 

Featuring:

Cemil Aydin, (UNC-Chapel Hill, History, author of The Idea of the Muslim World) on "Islamophobia as Geopolitics: The Idea of the Muslim World from the Era of Empires to the Post-Colonial Period"

Deepa Kumar (Rutgers, Media and Middle Eastern Studies, author of Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire) on "Women Islam, and Empire From Gendered Orientalism to Imperial Feminism"  

Co-sponsored by the Humanities Center, Moynihan Institute, South Asia Center, Newhouse's Center for Global Engagements, and the Departments of History, International Relations, Religion, Sociology and Women and Gender Studies.

For more information please contact Havva Karakas-Keles at 315-443-9931. For accessibility information please call Marc Albert at 315-443-9248.