Description:

Tracking the Quran's social life as an American culture-object, anthropologist Zareena Grewal provides a window into today's culture wars with a special focus on ways non-Muslim white artists appropriate and adopt the Islamic scripture in works that offer a political commentary on the War on Terror.

Zareena Grewal, associate professor of American studies, Religious studies, and Middle East studies at Yale University, is a renowned scholar of Islam in the US, the author of an award-winning book, Islam is a Foreign Country: American Muslims and the Global Crisis of Authority, and a documentary filmmaker, By the Dawn's Early Light: Chris Jackson's Journey to Islam.

Lunch provided.
Co-sponsored by the Center for Global Culture and Communication.