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| 7 – 8 May 2016 | |
| Panel: Qur’an and Hadith | |
| Chaired by Amina Inloes | |
| Translating Al-Kāfī: How to Make a Classical Shi‘i Text Accessible to Twenty- | Oliver Scharbrodt, University of Chester, UK |
| First Century Readers | |
| Devotional Literature and Practice in Twelver Shi‘ism: An Exploration of the Supplication of Kumayl ibn Ziyād as Attributed to ʿAlī ibn Abi Ṭālib | Vinay Khetia, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada |
| Panel: Worldwide Islamic Heritage | |
| Lines Back to ʿAli, Roads Forward to Shi‘ism: An Historical Anthropology of Cham Sayyids’ Trajectories from Cambodia to Iran | Emiko Stock, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA |
| ‘Our Vanished Lady’: Memory, Ritual, and Shi‘a-Sunni Relations at Bībī Pāk Dāmān | Noor Zehra Zaidi, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA |
| Judaeo-Islamic Heritage | M. J. Shomali, University of Cambridge, UK |
| Chaired by Amir Dastmalchian | |
| Redemption through Knowledge: The Metaphysics of Causality in the Kitāb al-Yanābīʿ of Abū Yaʿqūb al-Sijistānī | Lucas Oro Hershtein, University of Buenos Aires, National Scientific and Technical Research Council of Argentina |
| Tradition of Multivocality among Shi‘a Ulema | Abbas Mehregan, University of Cologne, Germany |
| Panel: Shi‘i Minorities | |
| Chaired by Amina Inloes | |
| A Study Examining Iraqi Immigrants: Has the Shi‘a-Sunni Conflict Been Transferred to Ottawa, Canada? | Jafar A. Ahmad, School of Peace and Conflict Management, Royal Roads University, Canada |
| The African-American Twelver Shi‘a Community of New York | Abbas Aghdassi, University of Tehran, Iran; Visiting Research Scholar, Sociology Department, City University of New York, USA |
| Muslim (Shi‘a) Migration to Europe, and the Engagement of English and Islamic Laws | Tahir Wasti, The Islamic College, London, UK |
| Sunni Literary Reaction to the Growth of Shi‘a Ideology in Northern Nigeria | Kabiru Haruna Isa, Department of History, Bayero University, Kano, Nigeria |
| Shi‘a Processions and the Competition for Religious Public Space in Northern Nigeria 1994-2015 | Sani Yakubu Adam (presented by Kabiru Haruna Isa), Bayero University, Kano, Nigeria |
| Panel: Diversity in Fiqh | |
| Chaired by Amina Inloes | |
| Fiqh for Minorities: Shi‘i Law in the Diaspora | Liyakat Takim, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada |
| Making of a Textual Source for the Law: the Case of Ritual (Im)purity of the People of the Book in the Twelver Shi‘a Jurisprudence | Mahmoud Pargoo, Institute for Social Justice, Australian Catholic University, Sydney, Australia |
| The Fiscal Authority of the Imams: Analyzing Imamic Jurisprudential Statements on Khums and Zakāt | Ed Hayes, Colby College, Maine, USA |
| Panel: Virtual Presentations from the Hawzah | |
| Chaired by Amina Inloes | |
| An Analysis of Shahīd Ṣadr’s Method: Discovering Islamic Economic Doctrine from Islamic Economic Laws and its Broader Application | Mahdieh Mohammadi Araghi, University of Allameh Tabataba’i, Tehran, Iran |
| Mahmud Mohammadi Araghi, Hawzah ‘Ilmiyyah, Tehran, Iran | |
| The Narrations about Clay (Ṭīnat) | Morteza Karim, University of Tehran, Iran and International Institute for Islamic Studies, Qom, Iran |
| Shi‘a Philosophers and the Question of the Criterion of Truth | Mahdi Hosseinzadeh Yazdi, University of Tehran, Iran |
| Panel: Pre-Modern Shi‘ism | |
| Chaired by Ali Paya | |
| Where is the Imām? The Returning Messiah in the Tīmūrid Age | Tanvir Akhtar Ahmed, Stanford University, California, USA |
| The Polemical Work of ʿAli Qulī Jadīd al-Islām in the Context of European Missionaries to Safavid Iran | Alberto Tiburcio, McGill University (alumnus), Montréal, Quebec, Canada |
| Panel: Shi‘ism in Modern Iran | |
| Chaired by Ali Paya | |
| Nineteenth Century Ideological Foundations of the Islamic Revolution | Ezra Tzfadya, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany |
| The Mad Muslim Mob: De/Mythologizing Iran | Hossein Nazari, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand |
| Analysis of Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis | Mersedeh Dad Mohammadi, University of Chester, UK |
| Iranian Women: Between Tradition and Modernity | Sarah Scio’, University of Perugia, Italy |
| Talk | |
| Shi‘as and Benedictines | Abbott Timothy |
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- First Annual Conference 2015
- Third Annual Conference 2017
- Fourth Annual Conference 2018
- Fifth Annual Conference 2019
- Sixth Annual Conference 2021
- Seventh Annual Conference 2022
- Eighth Annual Conference 2023
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