Activities and Events

We will be hosting a diverse set of events including seminars, conferences, workshops, and exhibitions across the duration of the project. You can find a selection of our latest events below, but be sure to check out the Institute for Global Prosperity’s official ‘Events Page’ for all details on bookings and future events.

Events at the IGP

Project Launch

Project Launch took place at the UCL, Wilkins Building, Haldane Room on 2nd December, 2022. Details here.

Conferences

Conference I: Poetics and Politics of Imagination (December 2022) Register here. Details here.

Conference II: Alternative Imaginaries: Feminist Transformative Politics in the Global South (May 2024). Register here. Details here.

Academic Workshops

The workshops bring together various scholars to work on their articles towards publication.

  1. 20 November, 2021 “Islamic Politics and the Imaginative: Intangibility and Critique”

  2. 20 January, 2022 “Heritage in The Margins: Forgetting, Remembering Rewriting”

  3. 20 February, 2022 “Islam, Critique, and the Canon”

  4. March-April, 2022 “Book Proposal Writing Workshops”

  5. 21 October, 2022 “Conducting Ethnographic Fieldwork in the Global South: A Roundtable on Methodology, Agency, and Care”

Takhayyul Seminars

During the first year of Takhayyul project, we will be hosting monthly seminars.

  1. 15 October 2020. Seminar by Darryl Li on his book “The Universal Enemy”. Details here.

  2. 12 November 2020. Seminar by David Henig on his book “Remaking Muslim Lives”. Details here.

  3. 16 December 2020. Seminar by Gulay Turkmen on her book "Under the Banner of Islam: Turks, Kurds, and the Limits of Religious Unity". Details here.

  4. 19 January 2021. Seminar by Jeremy Walton on '"Remembrance of Ottoman Times Past and the Politics of the Balkan Present:  Notes on Ferhadija Mosque and Maškovića Caravanserai" Details here.

  5. 24 February 2021. Seminar by Samuli Schielke on “The migrant dream of stability” Details here.

  6. 17th March 2021. Seminar by Sima Shakhsari on “Politics of Rightful Killing: Civil Society, Gender and Sexuality in weblogistan” Details here.

  7. 28th April 2021. Seminar by Niloofar Haeri on her book ‘Say What Your Heart , Woman, Prayer and Poetry in Iran’ Details here.

  8. 19th May 2021. Seminar by Alice Elliot on her book ‘The Outside: Migration as Life in Morocco’ Details here.

  9. 2nd June 2021. Seminar by Elora Shehabuddin on her book “Sisters in the Mirror” Details here.

  10. 16th May 2024. Seminar by Alice Wilson on her book ‘Afterlives of Revolution: Everyday Counterhistories in Southern Oman’. Details here.

  11. 17th May 2024. Seminar by Nazan Üstündağon on her book ‘The Mother, the Politician, and the Guerrilla: Women’s Political Imagination in the Kurdish Movement.’ Details here.

  12. 24th May 2024. Discussion panel by Sertaç Sehlikoglu, Mashuq Kurt, and Humeria Iqtidar following the release of their new special issue: ‘Islam, Critique, and the Canon’. Details here.

  13. 30th May 2024. Seminar by Charlotte Al-Khalili, on her book ‘Waiting For The Revolution To End: Syrian displacement, time & subjectivity.’ Details here.

  14. 6th June 2024. Seminar by Kusha Sefat on his book ‘Revolution of Things: The Islamism and Post-Islamism of Objects in Tehran’. Details here.

Reading Groups

The reading groups run on a weekly basis open to post graduate and post-PhD scholars. The geographical focus of the topics rotate bi-weekly and discussants are encouraged to publish their reviews on their selected platform. If you are interested in contributing to the reading group(s) as a discussant, please contact us.

Publications

Sehlikoglu, Sertaç (2021) “Global far right and imaginative interconnectivities” Social Anthropology, 29 (2) https://doi.org/10.1111/1469-8676.13039

Sadeghi, Fatemeh (2021) Post-Islamism: From Making Islam Democratic to the Politics of Myth. Manchester Journal of Transnational Islamic Law and Practice , 17 (1) pp. 3-18. https://www.electronicpublications.org/stuff.php?id=839

Also, see below list for the non-academic entries our team members authored:

  1. Review of “Empires of Memory”, by Zora Kostadinova. Access here.

  2. A World not Theirs, by Fatemeh Sadeghi. Access here.

  3. Religion, Prosperity, and Imagining Bosnian Islam, by Zora Kostadinova. Access here.

  4. Book Review of “Waldman, Simon A. and Emre Caliskan. 2016. Turkey and its Discontents. Pp: 342. Hurst & Company Publishers: London. Paperback ISBN: 9781849045667”, by Sertaç Sehlikoğlu. Access here.

  5. Reflections on Imperial Threads Workshop Series at the IGP, by Fahri Karakaş (CITE Scholar). Access here.

  6. At the South, by Mezna Qato. Access here.

  7. Drowning Pakistan, by Sumrin Kalia. Access here.

  8. Iran on fire: Once again, women are on the vanguard of transformative change, by Fatemeh Sadeghi and Vrinda Narain. Access here.

  9. What do Imaginations of Haunted Landscapes tell us about Everyday Politics?, by Erol Sağlam (CITE Scholar). Access here.

  10. The Populist Rage, by Sumrin Kalia. Access here.

  11. Women of the Land of Sun, by Fatemah Sadeghi. Access here.

    Further publications of Takhayyul project will be announced on this website and will be open access.

Working Papers

To be announced

Exhibitions

To be announced

Artistic Events

January 13th-March 24th 2023. Imperial Threads Workshop Series by Artist-in-Residence Laurelie Rae. Details here.