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Comment by maria cardeira da silva on September 27, 2010 at 12:00pm

Islam in the making and unmaking of places . Call for papers SIEF 2011

You are all invited!

The 10th international SIEF congress will take place in Lisbon, 17-21 April 2011.

The Call for papers closes 15 October.

(P122) Islam in the making and unmaking of places
Convenors
Maria Cardeira da Silva (CRIA/FCHS-UNL) m.cardeira@fcsh.unl.pt and José Mapril (CRIA/ISCTE-IUL) jmapril@gmail.com

Short Abstract
There's a gap between research in Islamic contexts and research in contexts with Muslim minorities. Assuming that it is heuristically important to seek the ethnographic continuities between what has been called the center and periphery of Islamic and Arab we invite contributions that testify to that.

Long Abstract
In the current anthropological literature, a gap seems to persist between ethnographic research carried out in Islamic contexts and that undertaken in contexts in which Muslims are minorities. This is clearly visible in theoretical terms, namely because the debates and issues raised in one context differ significantly from those in the other. In this panel, though, we assume that regardless of the specificity of each context, it is heuristically important to seek the theoretical and ethnographic continuities between what has been sometimes called the center and periphery of Islamic and Arab contexts. Themes such as translocal Islam, revivalist movements, the place of religion in the public space, Islamic education and governmentality efforts, secularism, (liberal) citizenship, consumption, ‘modernity’, ethical self fashioning, gender negotiations, political Islam, ‘correct’ Islamic practices, etc, are some of the topics that continuously affect Muslims wherever they are. In this panel we invite contributions that address such or other issues, in a way that, from an ethnographic or theoretical point of view, can give evidence for and testify to our assumption.

Comment by Stacy A A Hope on September 14, 2010 at 4:39pm

As part of the Book Reviews venture, I am in search of an individual who is willing to review the following publications:

1. The Islamic World and the West: Managing Religious and Cultural Identities in the Age of Globalisation.
Christoph Marcinkowski (Ed.)
Bd. 24, 2009, 320 S., 29.90 EUR, br., ISBN 978-3-643-80001-5
Reihe: Freiburger Sozialanthropologische Studien/Freiburg Studies in Social Anthropology/ Etudes d'Anthropologie Sociale de l'Université de Fribourg


2. Shi'ite Identities:Community and Culture in Changing Social Contexts
Christoph Marcinkowski
Bd. 27, 2010, 288 S., 24.90 EUR, br., ISBN 978-3-643-80049-7
Reihe: Freiburger Sozialanthropologische Studien/Freiburg Studies in Social Anthropology/ Etudes d'Anthropologie Sociale de l'Université de Fribourg.

If anyone is interested or knows of someone qualified to review these, please contact Stacy Hope: saah@st-andrews.ac.uk

Comment by deniz batum on September 10, 2009 at 11:33am

THE IDEA OF EUROPE: Memories and Postcoloniality

Utrecht University, 29-30 October 2009





Jointly organised by the Centre for the Humanities, the AHRC (Arts and Humanities Research Council, UK); Focus & Massa, Culture and Identities; the Institute for History and Culture and the Graduate Gender Programme, Utrecht University, NL.



‘The Ethics of European Memory: what is to be done?’

Thursday 29 October, 2009



Chair:

Ann Rigney

(Utrecht University, on behalf of Culture and Identities)



Keynote Speakers:



Luisa Passerini

(Prof. Cultural History, Turin University, Italy)



Irit Rogoff

(Prof. of Visual Cultures, Goldsmith University, UK)



Occidentalism, Orientalism, and the idea of a postcolonial Europe.’

Friday 30 October, 2009



Chair:

Sandra Ponzanesi

(Utrecht University, on behalf of AHRC, UK)



Keynote Speakers:



Avishai Margalit

(Kennan Professor, Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton University/

Schulman Professor of Philosophy at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem).



Paul Gilroy

(Anthony Giddens Professorship in Social Theory, London School of Economics, UK)



Luisa Passerini & Simon Glendinning

(Prof. Cultural History, Turin University, Italy

& Reader in European Philosophy, London School of Economics, UK)





THE IDEA OF EUROPE: Memories and Postcoloniality is a two-part event to discuss how Europe can be rethought from a postcolonial and postsecular perspective. The first day brings together memory thinking, heritage practice and postcolonial theory to explore challenges and potentialities in the making of a new European memory which can account for its multicultural past. The second day discusses from different intellectual traditions and perspectives the idea of Europe as an imagined and actual space. It focuses in particular on the relationship between ‘Occidentalism, Orientalism, and the idea of a postcolonial Europe’ which requires a further understanding of the contemporary postsecular climate both within and beyond Europe’s borders.

Comment by deniz batum on September 1, 2009 at 3:53pm

Hello, for the inclined you can find videos of the "Postsecularism Lecture Series" held on various dates last year in Utrecht University, at this website: http://www.bak-utrecht.nl/?click[id_news]=57

Some headings are : On Islam in Europe, Projekt Migration, The Temperature of the Netherlands

Comment by Ingvild Flaskerud on September 1, 2009 at 7:30am

Shia migration to Europe. The transfer of rituals, identity, mental health, aesthetics