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Posts tagged as “Islam”

Gendering French Colonial History. Madame Luce and her School for Muslim Girls in 19th-Century Algeria

Institute of French Studies Lecture Rebecca Rogers is professor of history of education (Université Paris Descartes, Sorbonne Paris Cité). She is the author of From the Salon to the Schoolroom; Educating Bourgeois Girls in 19th-Century France (The Penn State University Press, 2005) and A Frenchwoman’s Imperial Story: Madame Luce in 19th-Century Algeria (Stanford University Press, 2013). In this talk Rebecca…

Russia Hajj: Empire and the Pilgrimage to Mecca

Please join us for a talk with Eileen Kane, Associate Professor of History and Director of the Program in Global Islamic Studies at Connecticut College, about her book, Russian Hajj: Empire and the Pilgrimage to Mecca (Cornell, 2015). This event is part of our Harriman at 70 Lecture Series. In the late nineteenth century, as a consequence of imperial conquest and a mobility…