BRINFAITH RELIGION AND EMPIRE PUBLIC LECTURE SERIES China’s Belt and Road Initiative in Nepal: National Imaginaries, Ethnographic Anxieties, and Geopolitical Power ABSTRACTThis talk examines China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) […]

BRINFAITH RELIGION AND EMPIRE PUBLIC LECTURE SERIES China’s Islamic Outreach to the Middle East ABSTRACTThroughout its existence, the People’s Republic of China has depended on Chinese Muslims to foster relationships […]

BRINFAITH RELIGION AND EMPIRE PUBLIC LECTURE SERIES Supporting the Faith, Building the Empire: Imperial Japan’s Islamic Policies in World War II  ABSTRACT This talk will examine some of the ways […]

BRINFAITH RELIGION AND EMPIRE PUBLIC LECTURE SERIES Religion as Infrastructure: Congolese Migration, Diaspora, and Religious Networks ABSTRACT In the last two decades, African charismatic and (neo)-Pentecostal communities have arisen in […]

BRINFAITH RELIGION AND EMPIRE PUBLIC LECTURE SERIES The Universal Enemy: Jihad, Empire, and the Challenge of Solidarity ABSTRACT No contemporary figure is more demonized than the Islamist foreign fighter who […]

BRINFAITH RELIGION AND EMPIRE PUBLIC LECTURE SERIES The Politics of Muslim Infrastructure in Tanzania ABSTRACTKariakoo is an old residential area in the city of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania. In […]

BRINFAITH RELIGION AND EMPIRE PUBLIC LECTURE SERIES The New Faith Roads in Southeast Asia: Dynamics of a Circulatory Missionary Process ABSTRACTThis lecture on proselytizing to/from Southeast Asia is a critical […]

BRINFAITH RELIGION AND EMPIRE PUBLIC LECTURE SERIES Circulations and Convergences: Mecca in the Conceptions and Mobilities of Chinese Muslim Diasporas in Saudi Arabia ABSTRACTMecca is often viewed through the angles […]

BRINFAITH RELIGION AND EMPIRE PUBLIC LECTURE SERIES Making the Muslim World in the Age of Britain’s Steam and Print Initiative ABSTRACTEuropean Imperialism during the long 19th century was characterized by increasing […]

BRINFAITH RELIGION AND EMPIRE PUBLIC LECTURE SERIES History Written in Advance: The Temporal Politics of Learning Mandarin for Jehovah’s Witnesses in Zambia ABSTRACTOver the last decade, there have been a […]

BRINFAITH RELIGION AND EMPIRE PUBLIC LECTURE SERIES Infrastructure and Connectivity across the Karakoram-Pamir Watershed, since 1918 ABSTRACTLocated at the crossroads of Central, East, and South Asia, the watershed that divides […]