UBC Continuing Studies, the Dept. of Asian Studies at UBC, the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and the Laurier Institution present Global Islam: Past, Present and Future, a series of free public lectures delivered by some of the world’s most renowned scholars in Islamic studies.
As part of this series, Michael Laffan, a professor of History and the Philip and Beulah Rollins Bicentennial Preceptor at Princeton University, will discuss Islam in Indonesia.
Laffin is the author of Islamic Nationhood and Colonial Indonesia: The Umma Below the Winds (2003) and is working on a new book, The Making of Indonesian Islam.
Date: March 26
Time: 7 – 9 p.m.
Place: UBC Robson Square, 800 Robson St.
Info: Free public lecture. http://cstudies.ubc.ca/community/courses.html
