Muslim Studies Conference Next Week (March 19-21)

[MSU Campus Interfaith Council]

Celebrating similarities, understanding differences...

We seek to converse, not to convert.

Please see details below for the Muslim Studies Conference! There are a lot of interesting discussions. 

Conference Presenters/Schedule

Wednesday, March 19

 

Film Screening (Premiere)  Migrations of Islam

8 p.m., B117 Wells Hall

 

Thursday, March 20       All Panel Presentations are in Room 303 International Center

 

9:15-9:45: Coffee/tea (Opening at 9:30)

 

9:45-11:45 am  Panel 1: Performing Identities (Moderator: Ani Sarkissian)

 

Fatemeh Keshavarz-Karamustafa (University of Maryland),

 “Poetry as Politics, Worship, and Education: The Case of Sa‘di of Shiraz”

 

Sean Pue (MSU, Linguistics and Languages),   

 “Poets in a Muslim Land: Sufism, Modernity, and Indo-Muslim

  Artistic Subjectivity”

 

Chantal Tetreault (MSU, Anthropology),    

 “Transcultural Teens: Performing Youth Identities in French Cities”

 

Lunch

 

1:00-2:45 pm  Panel 2: Rethinking Practice(s) (Moderator: Elisha Renne)

 

Emilio Spadola (Syracuse University),

“Practice, Performance, Performativity: Clarifying Some Terms

  Debate for Islamic Studies”

 

Kai Kresse (Columbia University),

 “Intellectual Practice: Illustrations and Reflections from

   the Swahili Context”

 

Mara Leichtman (MSU, Anthropology),

 “The ‘Africanization’ of Ashura in Senegal” 

 

3-4:45 pm    Panel 3: Transforming Practices   (Moderator: Russell Lucas)

 

Ahmet Karamustafa (University of Maryland),

“Sufi Practices in Historical Context”

 

Emine Evered (MSU, History),

 “Educating Muslims in the 19^th-Century Middle East”

 

Kyle Evered (MSU, Geography),

 “From Raki to Ayran: Drinking and Identity in Modern Anatolia” 

 

Friday morning, March 21

 

9:15-9:45: Coffee/tea

 

9:45-11:45 am    Panel 4: Spatial and Temporal Dimensions

                                                                           (Moderator: Karin Zitzewitz)

Chen Bram, (MSU, Van Leer Institute),

“Sufi Circles in Israel under the Shade of the Conflict”

 

Elisha Renne, (University of Michigan),

“Hajj Journeys and the Acquisition of New Textile/TextPractice”

 

Carla Bellamy (Baruch College),

“Islamic Places? Locating Dargahs in the Religious Landscape of

   Contemporary Northern India”

 

Meryem Zaman, (MSU, Ph.D. candidate, Anthropology)

“Segregated Spaces: Creating Revivalist Settings in Urban Pakistan”

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