Faisal Devji is a University Reader in Modern South Asian History at the University of Oxford. He will be presenting a free lecture titled “The Meaning of Global Jihad” as part of the Lifelong Learning Series put on by UBC’s Continuing Studies.
Devji has held faculty positions at the New School in New York, Yale University and the University of Chicago, from which he also received his PhD in Intellectual History. Devji is the author of two books, Landscapes of the Jihad: Militancy, Morality, Modernity (2005), and The Terrorist in Search of Humanity: Militant Islam and Global Politics (2009). He is currently writing a book on the emergence of Muslim politics and the founding of Pakistan.
Date: March 12
Time: 7 – 9 p.m.
Place: UBC Robson Square, 800 Robson St., Vancouver
Info: Register: http://cstudies.ubc.ca/community/courses.html
