October 20, 2015 Ethics, Gender, and the Islamic Legal Project Marion Holmes Katz, Professor of Middle Eastern Studies, New York University
November 17, 2015 Re-Orienting Orientalism: Toward an Epistemology of Moral Responsibility Wael Hallaq, Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities, Columbia University
January 26, 2016 Classical Islamic Law and the Modern Quest for Authority Ahmed El Shamsy, Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago
February 23, 2016 What is Islam? by Shahab Ahmed (1966-2015) Discussed by Noah Feldman, Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law, Harvard Law School, and Shahzad Bashir, Lysbeth Warren Anderson Professor of Islamic Studies, Stanford University
April 5, 2016 Was the Rise of Islam a Black Swan Event? Michael Cook, Class of 1943 University Professor of Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University
