FYI: Saturday: "Islam: The Politics of Reform"

[Evan Baehr]

Hello YFFP:

 

See this fascinating conference below.  For more information, contact Khurram Hussain (khurram...@yale.edu).

 

Best,

Evan

 

The MacMillan Center Initiative on Religion, Politics & Society

presents a symposium on

"Islam: The Politics of Reform"

Saturday, March 1, 2008

9:00AM - 6:00PM

Hall of Graduate Studies (HGS), 320 York Street, Faculty Lounge Rm 211

***Conference Flyer and Poster attached***

8:30-9:00AM: Continental Breakfast

9:00-10:30AM: Keynote Address by Professor David Powers, Cornell University
"A Founder without Sons: The Making of the Last Prophet"

Comment by Yasir Kazi, Dept. of Religious Studies, Yale University

10:30-12:30PM
Panel I: Historical Contexts & Meanings of Reform
Chair: Frank Griffel, Dept. of Religious Studies, Yale University

Richard Bulliet, Professor, Dept. of History, Columbia University
"The Rise of the Sufi Brotherhood as a Reform Movement"

Charles Kurzman, Associate Professor, Dept. of Sociology, UNC
"Liberal Islam: The Reformation within the Reformation"

David Robinson, Professor, Dept. of History, Michigan State University
"Legitimating Islamic Revolution at the Frontiers of the Islamic World"

Discussant: Homayra Ziad, Dept. of Religious Studies, Yale University

12:30-2:00PM: Lunch (by invitation only)

2:00-4:00PM
Panel II: Secularism, State & Society
Chair: Vivek Sharma, Dept. of Political Science, Yale University

Anna Bigelow, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Religious Studies, NCSU
"Secularism's Double Bind: Muslims, Islam & the State in South Asia"

Carrie Wickham, Associate Professor, Dept. of Political Science, Emory University
"Changing Stripes? The Causes & Dynamics of Islamist Auto-Reform"

M. Hakan Yavuz, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Political Science, U. of Utah
"Secularism and Muslim Democracy in Turkey: Islamic Bourgeoisie & the AKP"

Discussant: Tarek Masoud, Dept. of Political Science, Yale University

4:00-4:30PM: Coffee & Refreshments

4:30-6:00PM: Keynote Address by Professor Bruce Lawrence, Duke University
"Muslim-Christian & Christian-Muslim: The Challenge of Religious Minorities to Secular Polities in Asia & Africa"
with special reference to Egypt & Ethiopia, Indonesia & the Phillipines
Comment by Andrew March, Dept. of Political Science, Yale University

www.yale.edu/macmillan/rps/islam