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DESCRIPTION:THE OLD WOMEN OF NISHAPUR INITIATIVE: GENDER\, KNOWLEDGE\, RELI
 GION\n\nFALL 2024\n\nProfessor Mana Kia is scholar of the connected histor
 ies of early modern Persianate Asia with a focus on the circulation of peo
 ple\, texts\, practices\, and ideas between South and West Asia from the 1
 7-19th centuries. She has a particular interest in hermeneutical horizons 
 and meaning worlds Indo-Persian literary culture and social history. Her w
 ork is transregional\, straddling Middle Eastern and South Asian studies\,
  and interdisciplinary\, drawing on sources and approaches of history\, li
 terature\, and historical anthropology. Among her many publications\, she 
 is the author of Persianate Selves (2020). She is Associate Professor of a
 t the Department of Middle Eastern\, South Asian and African Studies at Co
 lumbia University.\n\nTogether with Mana Kia we will discuss passages from
  AUSTRALIANAMA by Samia Khatun.\n\nAustralian deserts remain dotted with t
 he ruins of old mosques. Beginning with a Bengali poetry collection discov
 ered in a nineteenth-century mosque in the town of Broken Hill\, Samia Kha
 tun weaves together the stories of various peoples colonized by the Britis
 h Empire to chart a history of South Asian diaspora. Australia has long be
 en an outpost of Anglo empires in the Indian Ocean world\, today the site 
 of military infrastructure central to the surveillance of 'Muslim-majority
 ' countries across the region. Imperial knowledges from Australian territo
 ries contribute significantly to the Islamic-Western binary of the post- C
 old War era. In narrating a history of Indian Ocean connections from the p
 erspectives of those colonized by the British\, Khatun highlights alternat
 ive contexts against which to consider accounts of non-white people. Austr
 alianama challenges a central idea that powerfully shapes history books ac
 ross the Anglophone world: the colonial myth that European knowledge tradi
 tions are superior to the epistemologies of the colonized. Arguing that Ab
 original and South Asian language sources are keys to the vast\, complex l
 ibraries that belie colonized geographies\, Khatun shows that stories in c
 olonized tongues can transform the very ground from which we view past\, p
 resent and future.\n\nIf you are interested in attending\, email setrag.ma
 noukian [at] mcgill.ca to receive the reading selection.\n\n \n\nDo not mi
 ss MANA KIA’s talk on Tuesday November 5 at 4pm (Morrice Hall 328): Re-Per
 sonalizing the State: Persianate Sociability as Political Ethic\n\n \n
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LOCATION:Room 328\, Morrice Hall\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 0E1\, 3485 rue 
 McTavish
SUMMARY:Discussion seminar with Mana Kia (Columbia University)
URL:/anthropology/channels/event/discussion-seminar-ma
 na-kia-columbia-university-360186
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