Ian Almond will speak on Islam in Latin America. From the first travelers to the Americas to Arab / African population movement into Brazil and Argentina, the talk covers some of the ways in which Islam and associated Middle Eastern cultures have had some part to play in the configuration of Latin American history and identity. Popular culture (TV, cinema), architecture, international relations and literary history are some of the disciplines and areas the talk will cover.
Ian Almond is a Professor of World Literature at Georgetown University (Qatar). He received his PhD in English Literature from Edinburgh University in 2000. He is the author of five books, most recently Two Faiths, One Banner (Harvard University Press, 2009) and History of Islam in German Thought (Routledge, 2010), and over forty articles in a variety of journals including PMLA, Radical Philosophy, ELH and New Literary History. He specializes in comparative world literature, with a tri-continental emphasis on Mexico, Bengal and Turkey. His books have been translated into eight languages, including Arabic, Russian, Turkish, Korean, Serbo-Croat, Persian and Indonesian. His latest book is on the South Asian thinker Nirad Chaudhuri and will be coming out with Cambridge University Press later this year.
Friday, February 27 at 4:00pm | Hollander Hall, 241
Sponsored by Arabic Studies and Center for Foreign Languages, Literatures & Cultures.