March 7-9: Sufis in Senegal
Emily Brennan
International Conference, Art Exhibit & Sufi Music Recital
FRIDAY, SATURDAY & SUNDAY, MARCH 7-9
* Columbia University
Kellogg Center, International Affairs Building, Room 1501
420 West 118th Street
* The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
515 Malcolm X Boulevard (at West 136th Street)
This two-day conference investigates how Sufi brotherhoods have played
a crucial role in establishing a democratic and tolerant
society in SENEGAL. In conjunction, the Schomburg Center for Research
in Black Culture presents "A Saint in the City: Sufi Arts of Urban
Senegal," a landmark exhibition curated by the Fowler Museum at UCLA.
Schedule of Events below.
Sponsored by Institute for Religion, Culture and Public Life;
Institute of African Studies; The Center for the Study of Democracy,
Toleration and Religion; & Committee on Global Thought.
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FRIDAY, MARCH 7
Columbia University, International Affairs Building, Room 1501
Morning Session: Chaired by Alfred C. Stepan, Wallace Sayre Professor
of Government and Political Science and Co-Director of the Institute
for Religion, Culture and Public Life, Columbia University
8:45 9:15 a.m.: Registration and Breakfast Reception
9:15 9:30 a.m.: Greetings and Opening Remarks
* Mamadou Diouf, The Leitner Family Professor of History and Director
of the Institute of African Studies, Columbia University
9:30 10:30 a.m.: Sufism: Spiritual and Democratic Revolution in
Islam: The Case of Senegal
* Mansour Sy Djamil, Caliph of the Tijanni branch of the Sufi
Brotherhood Seydi Jamil
10:30 11:30 a.m.: The Senegalese Social Contract Revisited: The
Muridiyya and State Politics in Post-Colonial Senegal
* Cheikh Babou, Assistant Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania
11:30 a.m. 12:30 p.m.: Debating Religion in the Age of Democracy:
Senegal in Regional Perspective
* Leonardo Villalón, Associate Professor of Political Science at the
University of Florida.
Senegalese Democracy from a Comparativist s Viewpoint
* Alfred C. Stepan, Wallace Sayre Professor of Government and
Political Science, Columbia University
12:30 2:00 p.m.: Break
Afternoon Session: Chaired by Mark C. Taylor, Professor of Religion
and Co-Director of the Institute for Religion, Culture and Public
Life, Columbia University
2:00 3:00 p.m.: Global Circuits of Senegalese Muslims and Women's
Search for Religious Merit
* Beth Buggenhaggen, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Indiana University
3:00 4:00 p.m.: Visualizing Dakar: Sufi Arts of Democracy
* Allen Roberts, Director of the African Studies Center, UCLA
The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
6 p.m.: Preview of A Saint in the City: Sufi Arts of Urban Senegal
for Columbia Community
* Greetings by Howard Dodson, Director of the Schomburg Center, and by
Mary Nooter Roberts, Fowler Museum at UCLA
* Light Refreshments
7 p.m.: Sufi Musical Recital by Musa Dieng Kala
* Introduction by Mamadou Diouf, Director of the Institute of African Studies
SATURDAY, MARCH 8
Columbia University, International Affairs Building, Room 1501
Morning Session: Chaired by Mamadou Diouf, The Leitner Family
Professor of History and Director of the Institute of African Studies,
Columbia University
09:00 9:30 a.m.: Registration and Breakfast Reception
9:30 10:30 a.m.: Dakar s Sunnite Women: The Dialectic of Submission
and Defiance in a Globalizing City
* Erin Augis, Associate Professor of Sociology, Ramapo College of New Jersey
10:30 11:30 a.m.: Joking Kinships and the Crafting of Inter-ethnic
and Religious Tolerance From Below in Senegal
* Etienne Smith, Doctoral Candidate, le Centre d Etudes de Recherches
Internationales à l Institut d'Etudes Politiques
11:30 a.m. 12:30 p.m.: Charismatic Cosmopolitanism: Sufi Sovereignty
and Hidden Knowledge in the Global Taalibe Baay Network
* Joseph Hill, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Frederick Douglass Institute
for African and African-American Studies, University of Rochester
12:30 1:30 p.m.: Break
Afternoon Session: Chaired by Alfred C. Stepan, Wallace Sayre
Professor of Government and Political Science and Co-Director of the
Institute for Religion, Culture and Public Life, Columbia University
1:30 - 2:30 p.m.: Islam, the Originaires and the Making of the Public
Space in a Colonial City: Saint Louis du Senegal
* Mamadou Diouf, The Leitner Family Professor of History and Director
of the Institute of African Studies, Columbia University
2:30 - 3:30 p.m.: Religions, Sufi Orders and the Project of Modernity
in Senegal
* Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Professor of French and Romance Philology
and of Philosophy, Columbia University
3:30 4:00 p.m.: Coffee and Tea Reception
4:00 5:00 p.m.: Discussion
5:00 5:30 p.m.: Closing Session
SUNDAY, MARCH 9
The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
1 p.m. Public Opening of A Saint in the City.
2 p.m. A Guided Walking Tour
* Allen Roberts, Director of the African Studies Center, UCLA
* Mary Polly Nooter Roberts, Deputy Director and Chief Curator, the
Fowler Museum at UCLA.
3 p.m. 1st Public Recital by Musa Dieng Kala
4:30 p.m. 2nd Public Recital by Musa Dieng Kala
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Emily Brennan
Assistant Director
Columbia University
Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life
80 Claremont Avenue, Room 306, MC 9611
New York, NY 10027
Tel. 212-851-4145
Fax. 212-851-0781