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SUMMARY:KQ Private View | 'Seeds of Trees\, Sounds of Mountains’ at the Aga Khan Centre Gallery
DESCRIPTION:Join the KQ for at the Aga Khan Centre Gallery for a private guided curator tour by Esen Kaya to experience a thought-provoking dialogue between art and environmental science.\n  \nAbout \nSeeds of Trees\, Sounds of Mountains is an exhibition exploring climate change through the lens of art\, nature\, and global conservation. Featuring works by a diverse group of artists\, poets\, and sound artists\, the exhibition responds to themes of environmental stewardship\, inspired by the Aga Khan Development Network’s commitment to climate action. \nIn partnership with the Aga Khan Agency for Habitat\, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew Wakehurst\, and other global organisations\, the exhibition brings together creative responses to pressing ecological issues. From intricate seed-inspired sculptures to immersive soundscapes of mountain landscapes\, each piece reflects on the interconnectedness of people\, landscapes\, and plant life\, particularly in the Pakistan Himalayas. \n​Key Details \n\n​Date: Thursday\, 3 April\n​Location: 10 Handyside St\, London N1C 4DN\n​Time: 08:30 AM – 10:00 AM\n\nJoin us at the Aga Khan Centre Gallery for a guided curator tour by Esen Kaya to experience a thought-provoking dialogue between art and science\, and to explore how cultural and environmental narratives can shape our collective responsibility to the planet. \nFor any enquiries\, please contact events@knowledgequarter.london. \nRSVP here
URL:https://www.knowledgequarter.london/event/kq-private-view-aga-khan-centre-gallery-seeds-of-trees-sounds-of-mountains/
CATEGORIES:Aga Khan University,Feature Event,KQ Connect,KQ Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20201105T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20201105T160000
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SUMMARY:KQ Virtual Private View: Black Monuments Matter
DESCRIPTION:Book your tickets via Eventbrite here. \n\nBlack Monuments Matter: A Virtual Exhibition of Sub-Saharan Architecture\n \nBlack Monuments Matter recognises and highlights African contributions to world history by exhibiting World Heritage Monuments and architectural treasures from Sub-Saharan Africa. In doing so\, this exhibition sweeps away ideas based on racist theories and hopes to contribute to both awareness of African identity and pride of African Heritage. \n \nSites and monuments are physical representations of histories\, heritage\, and developments in society. This exhibition aims to display the diversity and richness of African cultures as part of world history through the study of African Monuments; bringing awareness and pride of African roots and contributions to other cultures.\n \nAfrican cultures suffered extensively from slavery from the 16th to the 19th Century\, and during the acceleration of European colonisation through the 19th and early 20th Century. Black Monuments Matter aspires to create links to living African heritage by making it visible\, assessable\, and known to as many people as possible.\n \nMany of Africa’s monuments are protected by UNESCO and have been given world heritage status. They are also protected and supported by national heritage authorities and by the support of international organisations such as the World Monument Fund and the Aga Khan Trust for Culture.\n \nThrough an approach founded on the latest knowledge and technology\, this special private view event will offer Knowledge Quarter staff an opportunity to learn more about the glorious monuments and sites of African heritage and black cultures across Sub Saharan Africa.\n \nPresented in partnership with the Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations at the Aga Khan University in London\, and the Zamani Project at the University of Cape Town.
URL:https://www.knowledgequarter.london/event/kq-virtual-private-view-black-monuments-matter/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Aga Khan University,Feature Event,KQ Events,November,Partner Events,Private Views
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20191007
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20191009
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SUMMARY:Conference: Words Laying Down the Law - Translating Arabic Legal Discourse
DESCRIPTION:What is the impact of translation on the diffusion of legal concepts between domains of discourse? Does the translation of legal terminology modify the perception of the corresponding legal phenomena in observable and applied ways? How are words translated from legal discourse into everyday discourse\, and does translation happen in the other direction?\nKeynote Speakers: \nProf Myriam Salama-Carr\, University of Manchester\nProf Baudouin Dupret\, Sciences Po Bordeaux\nProf Roberta Aluffi\, University of Turin\nDr Neveen Al Saeed\, Ain Shams University\, Cairo \nDownload the preliminary programme. \nOrganiser: \nThis conference is organised by AKU-ISMC’s Governance Programme. This programme​ aims to critically assess current thinking on governance in relation to Muslim contexts. It seeks to explore the deeply rooted religious and cultural sensitivities prevalent in matters of governance. By generating outputs accessible to wider audiences\, the project is committed to encouraging healthy and informed debate among scholars and the public alike.​​​ \nBooking: \nThis event is free but booking is essential. Book as soon as possible.
URL:https://www.knowledgequarter.london/event/conference-words-laying-down-the-law-translating-arabic-legal-discourse/
LOCATION:Aga Khan Centre\, 10 Handyside Street\, London\, N1C 4DN\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Aga Khan University,October,Partner Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190625T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190625T200000
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: The Politics of Palestinian Multilingualism
DESCRIPTION:Nancy Hawker will be in conversation with Deborah Cameron on the occasion of the launch of her new book The Politics of Palestinian Multilingualism: Speaking for Citizenship.\nThis event is free but booking is essential. Book as soon as possible. \nAbstract: \nIn the governing institutions of Israel\, Arabic is suppressed. This practice crystallised in the early years of the state. Also\, Arabic-speakers who also speak Hebrew make linguistic choices that result in the avoidance of Arabic in situations where Jewish Israelis are also present. These two elements form the sociolinguistic habitus of the Palestinians and other Arabs in the area controlled by Israel. When speaking Arabic\, to give their propositions authority\, their discursive strategies mobilise multilingual repertoires\, including codeswitching and borrowing\, for rhetoric effect and style.The analysis moves away from scholarship that has been concerned ‘language endangerment’ which has channeled concerns about political problems. The Palestinian multilinguals are performing the aspirations of an emergent middle class elite. On the political stage\, this elite challenges the ethnorepublican political structures of Israel\, as well as ethnonationalist campaigns\, with different inhabitations of citizenship that envisage liberal equality\, dignity and autonomy. Under conditions of late capitalism\, multilingual language skills are re-packaged as marketable resource: this creates value\, but in a contested way\, with ambivalent opportunities. With new evidence from recent and historical political discourse\, this book is about how speakers of an institutionally marginalised language engage with the political system multilingually. \nSpeakers: \nDr Nancy Hawker is a Research Fellow for AKU-ISMC’s Gover​nance Programme. Dr Hawker has a DPhil in Oriental Studies from University of Oxford and an MA in Near and Middle Eastern Studies from SOAS. After publishing Palestinian-Israeli Contact and Linguistic Practices (Routledge\, 2013)\, she took on a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowshipat the Faculty of Oriental Studies at Oxford University. She has previously worked at Amnesty International’s International Secretariat in London. \nProf Deborah Cameron is a sociolinguist who currently holds the Murdoch Chair of Language and Communication in the Faculty of Linguistics at Oxford University. She is the author of numerous books\, including Verbal Hygiene (1995)\, Good To Talk (2000)\, The Myth of Mars and Venus (2007)\, and most recently\, with Sylvia Shaw\, Gender\, Power and Political Speech (2016). She regularly comments on linguistic topics on BBC radio\, and presents research on language and gender for a general audience through her blog Language: A Feminist Guide.
URL:https://www.knowledgequarter.london/event/book-launch-the-politics-of-palestinian-multilingualism/
LOCATION:Aga Khan Centre\, 10 Handyside Street\, London\, N1C 4DN\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Aga Khan University,Feature Event,Partner Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190625T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190625T200000
DTSTAMP:20260429T020854
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SUMMARY:Aga Khan University Governance Programme
DESCRIPTION:The Governance Programme is an annual series of events organised by the Aga Khan University and the Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations. Hosted at the Aga Khan Centre in King’s Cross\, the programme of workshops\, lectures and talks explores how Muslim societies develop political systems that promote public welfare\, achieve popular legitimacy and recognise minority rights in a time marked by heated debates over tradition\, religion and modernity.\nProgramme\nPublic Lecture: Blasphemy and the State in Pakistan\n03 June 2019\, 17:30-19:00 \nAuthor and historian Dr Yaqoob Khan Bangash will explore the history of blasphemy laws in Pakistan\, and the effects of introducing stricter laws on free speech and the rights of religious minority groups. \nDiscussion Panel: Islamic Law and Gender Equality in the Balance – Inheritance Law Reform in Tunisia\n13 June 2019\, 17:30-19:00 \nA major reform of inheritance law is currently underway in Tunisia. The Tunisian reform is triggering lively debates well beyond the country’s borders due to the sensitivity of one of the points addressed: gender equality. Professor Hamrouni\, a Tunisian legal scholar involved in the reform\, will illustrate both process and content\, and will be joined by some of the leading experts in Europe on inheritance and family law reforms to discuss its various aspects. \nBook Launch: The Politics of Palestinian Multilingualism – Speaking for Citizenship\n25 June 2019\, 18:00-20:00\n \nNancy Hawker will be in conversation with Deborah Cameron on the occasion of the launch of her new book The Politics of Palestinian Multilingualism: Speaking for Citizenship (Routledge 2019). \n 
URL:https://www.knowledgequarter.london/event/aga-khan-university-governance-programme/
LOCATION:Aga Khan Centre\, 10 Handyside Street\, London\, N1C 4DN\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Aga Khan University,Partner Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190613T173000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190613T193000
DTSTAMP:20260429T020854
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SUMMARY:Public Lecture: Islamic Law and Gender Equality in the Balance
DESCRIPTION:Image: Protestors in Tunis demand equal inheritance rights for women\, 10 March 2018. \nThe Tunisian reform is triggering lively debates well beyond the country’s borders due to the sensitivity of one of the points addressed: gender equality.  Professor Hamrouni\, a Tunisian legal scholar involved in the reform\, will illustrate both process and content\, and will be joined by some of the leading experts in Europe on inheritance and family law reforms to discuss its various aspects. \nSPEAKERS:\n\nSalwa Hamrouni: Professor of Law at the University of Tunis. She lectures on human rights\, international institutions and the international protection of human rights\, and is an expert on civic education.\nRoberta Aluffi: Associate Professor of Comparative Law at the Faculty of Law\, University of Turin\, where she also teaches Islamic Law and African Law.\nDr Dörthe Engelcke: Senior research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law. Her dissertation on family law reform in Jordan and Morocco was co-winner of the 2016 BRISMES Leigh Douglas Memorial Prize for best PhD dissertation on a Middle Eastern topic in the Social Sciences or Humanities awarded by a British University.\nNadjma Yassari: Leader of the Research Group: Changes in God’s Law – An Inner Islamic Comparison of Family and Succession Laws at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law.\n\nThis event is free but booking is essential. Book Now.
URL:https://www.knowledgequarter.london/event/public-lecture-islamic-law-and-gender-equality-in-the-balance/
LOCATION:Aga Khan Centre\, 10 Handyside Street\, London\, N1C 4DN\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Aga Khan University,Feature Event,Partner Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190603T173000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190603T190000
DTSTAMP:20260429T020854
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SUMMARY:Public Lecture: Blasphemy and the State in Pakistan
DESCRIPTION:Blasphemy is one of the most contentious issues in contemporary Pakistan. Founded as a safe homeland for Muslims\, the country has wrestled with the role of Islam in the state since its inception.\nWhile the overwhelming majority of the population are Muslim\, they are far from homogenous in sectarian affiliation or adherence to particular doctrinal positions within Islam. Prior to the Islamisation programme under Zia ul Haq in the 1980s\, the laws on blasphemy were largely inherited from colonial era regulations that focussed on protecting religious property. Zia’s regime introduced the idea that insult to core ideas of Islam might also legitimately be regulated by the state. The resulting increase in accusations and prosecutions of blasphemy cases has exacerbated divisions in the country and exposed minority communities to serious risk of prosecution. Arguably\, rather than control blasphemy\, state legislation has created a mechanism for harassment. This has hit minority communities\, especially non-Muslims\, particularly hard\, as the recent high profile Asia Bibi case illustrates so dramatically. \nSpeaker:\nDr Yaqoob Khan Bangash is a historian of Modern South Asia. His current research interests are in the emergence of Pakistan as a post-colonial state\, with broader interests in decolonisation\, modern state formation\, formation of identities\, and the emergence of ethnic and identity based conflicts. His DPhil thesis was on the accession and integration of the princely states in Pakistan\, which has been published by Oxford University Press as A Princely Affair: Accession and Integration of Princely States in Pakistan\, 1947–55. He is currently working on a monograph on the imagination of Pakistan as a country after its creation\, using the debates of the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan (1947–56) as the basic primary material. Dr Bangash is also working towards a history of Forman Christian College\, Lahore. He has published in South Asia Research and the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History\, and has written articles for two edited volumes. He also regularly writes for The News\, The Express Tribune and other publications. In 2018\, he was a British Academy Visiting Fellow at Royal Holloway\, University of London\, and presently is the 2019 Chevening Fellow at the Oxford Centre of Islamic Studies. \nThis event is free but booking is essential. Book Now.
URL:https://www.knowledgequarter.london/event/public-lecture-blasphemy-and-the-state-in-pakistan/
LOCATION:Aga Khan Centre\, 10 Handyside Street\, London\, N1C 4DN\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Aga Khan University,Feature Event,Partner Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190410T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190410T193000
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SUMMARY:Urban Bodies in the Cityscape of Cairo: Passion\, Despair and Entanglement
DESCRIPTION:The eighth in a series of ten public events interrogating how heritage and contemporary creativity enhance and affect both quality of life and sustainability in a range of Muslim contexts\, co-produced by Aga Khan University\, Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations and the Aga Khan Trust for Culture and held in the iconic Aga Khan Centre.\nThis conversation focuses on how intense experiences during the Egyptian revolts in 2011 and afterwards are connected to the city of Cairo\, to artefacts and other bodies. There is no distinct separation between bodies\, things\, and cityscapes; instead\, these are intimately interconnected—a thick entanglement—and the ‘transmission of affect’ constantly flows between matter\, space\, and place. In Egypt as elsewhere\, temporality and frequency clearly influence these flows. Maria Frederika Malmström and Jonas Otterbeck will also discuss the notion of the afterlife of the uprisings in 2011 and why it is imperative in order to situate the temporal layer\, since every afterlife of a critical event does not only influence actions today but also creates new affective worlds. \nSPEAKERS: \nMaria Frederika Malmström\, Associate Professor\, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies\, Lund University\, and Associate Research Scholar\, Department of Anthropology\, Columbia University.\n \nJonas Otterbeck\, Professor of Islamic Studies\, Aga Khan University Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations. \nRegister to attend here. \nPrevious lectures in the series can be found on the AKU-ISMC YouTube channel. \n 
URL:https://www.knowledgequarter.london/event/urban-bodies-in-the-cityscape-of-cairo-passion-despair-and-entanglement/
LOCATION:Aga Khan Centre\, 10 Handyside Street\, London\, N1C 4DN\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Aga Khan University,Partner Events
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