Past Events
The Shadow of the Millet: Islamic Political Theology and the Afterlives of Ottoman Pluralism
BILDEV’s panel “The Shadow of the Millet: Islamic Political Theology and the Afterlives of Ottoman Pluralism” has been accepted for the BRAIS Symposium 2026: Islamic Studies Across Divides in an Era of Crisis and Global Injustice.
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BILDEV’s panel “The Shadow of the Millet: Islamic Political Theology and the Afterlives of Ottoman Pluralism” has been accepted for the BRAIS Symposium 2026: Islamic Studies Across Divides in an Era of Crisis and Global Injustice.
The symposium is co-hosted by the British Association for Islamic Studies (BRAIS) and Boğaziçi University, and will take place on 24–25 January 2026 at Boğaziçi University, South Campus, Istanbul.
Our panel will be held on Day 1, 24 January, at 1:45 PM. We welcome everyone interested in the field to join us.
Global Bergsonism Conference
Interpreting Bergsonian Ideas through Philosophical, Cultural, and Literary Interconnections
The Global Bergsonism Conference brings together scholars working on the global reception and reinterpretation of Henri Bergson’s philosophical legacy. Held in collaboration with BILDEV – The Foundation for the Study of Science and Thought, the event is organized by M. Sait Özervarlı (Yıldız Technical University, Istanbul) and Caterina Zanfi (CNRS/ENS Paris), as part of the CNRS International Research Network “A Chapter in the Global History of Philosophy: New Perspectives on Bergsonism.”
Joint Symposium: Muhammad Iqbal, John Dewey, and the Call for Reconstruction
This event explores the philosophical intersections and divergences between Iqbal and Dewey’s theories, especially their approaches to the reconstruction of modern thought during the interwar period.
BILDEV Talks 3
The third BILDEV Talk featured Sajjad Rizvi from Exeter University, who delivered a lecture titled “Two Schools of Metaphysics in 18th Century India.”
BILDEV Talks 2
The second BILDEV Talk was held on January 10, 2021, at the Marmara Ilahiyat Cultural Center in Istanbul. The speaker, Hiroaki Kawanishi from Tübingen University, delivered a thought-provoking lecture titled “Transcendence Above Transcendence: Abdal-Ghani al-Nabulusi’s Reception of Muhammad b. Yusuf al-Sanusi’s Metaphysics.”
BILDEV Talks 1
The inaugural BILDEV Talk took place on September 20, 2020, at the Marmara Ilahiyat Cultural Center in Istanbul. The guest speaker, Ibrahim Mansour from the University of California, Santa Barbara, delivered a lecture titled “The Challenges of Conceptual History in Islamic Thought: Tadbir and the Shādhili Order.”