# 2022 Schedule The Project on Shi'ism and Global Affairs at Harvard University's Weatherhead Center for International Affairs presents ## The 2nd International Symposium on Diversity and Unity in Transnational Shi’a Islam Monday, May 9th to Friday, May 13th, 2022 | 25+ Speakers, 5 Panels **A historic symposium series bringing together diverse voices from leading scholars of Shi’a thought and identity across Zaydi, Ismaili, Alevi, Alawite, Bektashi, & Twelver Ja'fari Muslim traditions and beyond at Harvard University.** ### Monday, May 9th Welcome & Opening Remarks 10:45AM – 11:00AM EDT | 7:45AM - 8:00AM PDT - [**Ali Asani**](/people/ali-asani "Ali Asani") (Harvard University) - [**Payam Mohseni**](/people/payam-mohseni "Payam Mohseni") (Harvard University) Keynote Address 11:00AM – 12:00PM EDT | 8:00AM - 9:00AM PDT - [**Devin Stewart**](/people/devin-stewart "Devin Stewart ") (Emory University) - *Abu al-Fath al-Karajiki as a Nexus between Twelver and Isma'ili Shi'ism* **Panel 1 | Intra-Shi’a Dialogue and Community Building in the West: Peace-Building and Civil Society** 12:15PM – 1:45PM EDT | 9:15AM - 10:45AM PDT **Speakers:** - [**Najah Bazzy**](/people/najah-bazzy "Najah Bazzy") (Zaman International) - *Ethical Leadership and Transcultural Practice: Faith-Based Community Development in the United States* - [**Hüseyin Çiçek** ](/people/h%C3%BCseyin-cicek "Hüseyin Cicek")(University of Vienna) - *Alevis in Austria and Germany* - [**Amin Mawji**](/people/amin-mawji "Amin Mawji") (Aga Khan Development Network) - *Driving Change Through Civil Society Collaborations: Lessons from the Front Line* - [**Yousef M. Hamidaddin**](/people/yousef-hamidaddin "Yousef Hamidaddin") (Managing Partner, Venture X) - *Zaydi Identity and the Absence of a Diaspora* - [**Rizwan Arastu**](/people/rizwan-arastu "Rizwan Arastu") (Islamic Texts Institute) - *Where do Truth Claims Fit in Intrafaith Dialogue?* **Moderator:** - [**Nicholas Boylston**](/people/nicholas-boylston "Nicholas Boylston") (Seattle University) ### Tuesday, May 10th **Panel 2 | The Imamate across Shi’a Traditions** 1:00PM – 2:30PM EDT | 10:00AM - 11:30AM PDT **Speakers:** - [**Maria De Cillis**](/people/%C2%A0maria-de-cillis " Maria De Cillis") (Institute of Ismaili Studies) - *Shiʿi Islam, Philosophy and the Greek Intellectual Legacy* - [**Mohammad Sagha**](/people/mohammad-sagha "Mohammad Sagha") (University of Chicago) - *Redemptive Eschatology and the Mahdi across Shi'a Confessions in the Early Islamic Period* - [**Seyfeddin Kara**](/people/seyfeddin-kara "Seyfeddin Kara") (University of Toronto) - *Leadership in Precarious Times: The Tenth Imam al-Hadi in the era of Inquisition (Mihna)* - [**Yahya Alshamy**](/node/1635550) (George Mason University) - *Imamate and Governance in the Zaydi Tradition* - [**Deniz Coşan Eke**](/people/deniz-co%C5%9Fan-eke "Deniz Coşan Eke") (University of Vienna) - *Dedes as Religious Leaders of the Alevi community in National Culture and Transnational Space* **Moderator:** - [**Farhad Daftary**](/people/farhad-daftary "Farhad Daftary") (Institute of Ismaili Studies) ### Wednesday, May 11th **Panel 3 | Ismaili Traditions in Central and South Asia** 1:00PM – 2:30PM EDT | 10:00AM - 11:30AM PDT **Speakers:** - [**Dagi Dagiev**](/people/dagikhudo-dagiev "Dagikhudo Dagiev") (Institute of Ismaili Studies) - *Central Asian Ismailis and their Traditions* - [**Yahia Baiza**](/people/yahia-baiza "Yahia Baiza") (Institute of Ismaili Studies) - *Ismaili History and Traditions in Afghanistan: A Sociological and Historical Analysis* - [**Sumaiya Hamadani**](/people/sumaiya-hamdani "Sumaiya Hamdani") (George Mason University) - *Tradition and Ta'wil in the Construction of Bohra Identity in South Asia* - [**Hussain Jasani** ](/people/hussain-jasani "Hussain Jasani")(Institute of Ismaili Studies) - *Kalām-i Hazrat Sūltānil Aulīā or Kalām-e Maulā, a Satpanth Lyrical Text: Shared Heritage of Khoja Sunnis, Khoja Ithna 'Asharis and Ismailis from South Asia* - [**Olly Akkerman**](/people/olly-akkerman "Olly Akkerman") (Freie Universität Berlin) - *Bohra Ritual Life: Everyday Practices and the Sacred Materiality of Objects* **Moderator:** - [**Ali Asani**](/people/ali-asani "Ali Asani") (Harvard University) ### Thursday, May 12th **Panel 4 | Comparative Approaches towards Shi’a Theology and Philosophy** 2:00PM – 3:30PM EDT | 11:00AM - 12:30AM PDT **Speakers:** - [**Orkhan Mir-Kasimov**](/people/orkhan-mir-kasimov "Orkhan Mir-Kasimov") (Institute of Ismaili Studies) - *Ismaili and Sufi Doctrines of Messianic Age, 4th-7th/10th-13th Centuries* - [**Nicholas Boylston**](/people/nicholas-boylston "Nicholas Boylston") (Seattle University) - *Paradigms of Ethics in the Twelver Shii Tradition: A Schematic Approach* - [**Scott Lucas**](/people/scott-lucas "Scott Lucas") (University of Arizona) - *Islamic Theology in Thirty Topics: A Zaydi contribution to Islamic thought* - [**Paul Walker** ](/people/paul-walker "Paul Walker")(University of Chicago) - *Survival and Loss: the Preservation and Recovery of the Arabic Legacy of Ismaili (Fatimid) Shiism in Modern Times* **Moderator:** - [**Gurdofarid Miskinzoda**](/people/gurdofarid-miskinzoda "Gurdofarid Miskinzoda") (Institute of Ismaili Studies) ### Friday, May 13th **Panel 5 | Shi’a Identities and Politics in the Modern Levant and Turkey** 1:00PM – 2:30PM EDT | 10:00AM - 11:30AM PDT **Speakers:** - [**Rula Abisaab**](/people/rula-jurdi-abisaab "Rula Jurdi Abisaab") (McGill University) - *Ambiguity and Interfaith Dialogues: Making and Unmaking Bonds between the Isma'ili Druze and the Twelver Shi'a in Lebanon* - [**Aurelie Daher**](/people/aur%C3%A9lie-daher " Aurélie Daher") (Paris-Dauphine University) - *Lebanese Shi'a and Hezbollah: A Mutually Impacting Relationship* - [**Aghiad Ghanem**](/people/aghiad-ghanem "Aghiad Ghanem") (Sciences Po) - *Becoming a Minority: Alawites and Identity Politics in Syria* - [**Mustafa Sen**](/people/mustafa-%C5%9Fen "Mustafa Şen ") (Middle East Technical University) - *State-Religion Relations and Alevis in Turkey* - [**Seyed Amir Hossein Asghari**](/people/seyedamirhossein-asghari "SeyedAmirHossein Asghari") (Indiana University) - *Baba Rexheb and the Bektashi Order: Between Sufism and Shi'ism* **Moderator:** - [**Payam Mohseni**](/people/payam-mohseni "Payam Mohseni") (Harvard University) **Closing Remarks** 2:30PM EDT | 11:30AM PDT See also:- [ 2022 Conference ](/year/2022)