All Events

4 - 25 Dec 2025
CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS
Exploring the Sacred: People, Place and Power in the Islamic Indian Ocean

04 Dec 2025
LECTURES
MUHAMMAD ALAGIL ARABIA ASIA STUDIES LECTURE – The Sacred is in Relatedness: Arabia-Asia as a Geography of Friendship
18:00 – 19:30

30 Jul 2025 - 31 Jul 2025
CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS
Connecting Imaginaries 2: Mapping Interconnectedness in a Time of the Rescripting of Nation-States

06 Feb 2025
ARI SEMINAR SERIES
ARABIA ASIA TRANSREGIONAL STUDIES ROUNDTABLE SERIES – Pramoedya Ananta Toer: Revisiting the Indonesian Author’s Work on the Centenary of His Birth
16:00 – 17:30 (SGT)

28 Nov 2024 - 29 Nov 2024
CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS
Connecting Imaginaries: Conversations on Arabia-Asia-Africa

24 Oct 2024
ARI SEMINAR SERIES
ARABIA ASIA TRANSREGIONAL STUDIES ROUNDTABLE SERIES – Invoking the Invisible in the Sahara: Islam, Spiritual Mediation, and Social Change
20:00 – 21:30 (SGT)

29 Aug 2023
ARI SEMINAR SERIES
ARABIA ASIA TRANSREGIONAL STUDIES ROUNDTABLE SERIES – What is Religious Authority? Cultivating Islamic Communities in Indonesia
21:30 – 23:00 (SGT)

20 Mar 2024
ARI SEMINAR SERIES
ARABIA ASIA TRANSREGIONAL STUDIES ROUNDTABLE SERIES – Miracles and Material Life: Rice, Ore, Traps and Guns in Islamic Malaya
21:30 – 23:00 (SGT)

29 Aug 2023
ARI SEMINAR SERIES
ARABIA ASIA TRANSREGIONAL STUDIES ROUNDTABLE SERIES – What is Religious Authority? Cultivating Islamic Communities in Indonesia
21:30 – 23:00 (SGT)

03 May 2023
ARI SEMINAR SERIES
ARABIA ASIA TRANSREGIONAL STUDIES ROUNDTABLE SERIES – Islamic Law in Circulation: Shafi’i Texts across the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean
23:00 – 00:30 (SGT)

01 Dec 2022 - 02 Dec 2022
CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS
Little Meccas

22 Oct 2020
CLUSTER SEMINARS
Book Discussion on Fluid Jurisdictions – Colonial Law and Arabs in Southeast Asia
10:00 – 11:30 (SGT)

05 Dec 2019 - 06 Dec 2019
CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS
The Southern Tier: New Gulf Thalassocracies in the Indian Ocean World

10 Sep 2019
ARI SEMINAR SERIES
A Moral Economy of Jihad: Islamic Law Meets Pure Castes and Creole Societies in Indian Ocean Malabar by Prof Engseng Ho
16:00 - 17:30

11 Dec 2018 - 12 Dec 2018
CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS
Strongmen and Networks: The Rise of Informal Diplomats

07 Dec 2017 - 08 Dec 2017
CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS
Beyond Bedouin and Bania: Arabia-South Asia Relations

15 Dec 2016 - 16 Dec 2016
CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS
China-Arabia Encounters and Engagements

29 Jul 2015 - 30 Jul 2015
CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS
Silk Roads, Muslim Passages: The Islam Question in China’s Expansion

23 Jun 2014 - 24 Jun 2014
CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS
Slender But Supple Threads: Arabia-Asia Relations Then and Now