CONFERENCE PROGRAM
December 2
14:15-‐16:00: FILM, ‘Visual Wednesday’, Pedram Khosronejad (University of Nantes) and Ingvild Flaskerud (Oslo University) will show extracts from their anthropological films anddiscuss with the audience (open event)
16.30-‐17.00: Welcome
17.00-‐19.00: Guided tour at Moesgaard Museum
19.00: Dinner in the restaurant at Moesgaard Museum
December 3
9.00 - 9.15: Morning coffee
9.15 - 10.30:
• The Multiple Migrations of the Whirling Dervish: Sufism and Holistic Health in Contemporary Cairo
Mark Sedgwick, Aarhus University
• British Muslims, the Hajj and Sacred Objects
Seán McLoughlin, University of Leeds
10.30-‐10.45: Break
10.45-‐12.00:
• Early Islamic amulet cases in the David Collection
Joachim Meyer, The David Collection
• Every place is Karbala: The turba prayer stone as traveling soil
Thomas Fibiger, Aarhus University
12.00-‐13.00: Lunch
13.00-‐14.15:
• The Flags from Karbala. Mediation of the Sacred in Migrancy
Ingvild Flaskerud, Oslo University
• From Abstract Utopia to Concrete Practice and Place: Hizb ut-‐Tarir
Members Caliphating
Kirstine Sinclair, University of Southern Denmark
14.15-‐14.30: Break
14.30-‐15.45:
• On the matter of ignorance: Bedouin pasts and the problem of presence
Mikkel Bille, Roskilde University
• The Migration of Sacred Nuristani Objects
Ulrik Høj, Aarhus University
15.45-‐16.30: Wrap up – general discussion
19.00: Dinner in Town
December 4
9.00-‐9.15: Morning coffee
9.15-‐10.30:
• Defilement of Muslim sacred objects in anti-‐Islamic activism
Jonas Svensson, Linnaeus University
• Banners during Tehran’s Muharram Rituals of Nasseri era (1831-‐1896)
Pedram Khosronejad, University of Nantes
10.30-‐10.45: Break
10.45-‐12.00:
• An amulet in Nørrebro, that you should (not) use for protection
Karen Waltorp, Aarhus University
• The Prophet in Our Midst: Sacred objects among Muslims in Denmark
Mikkel Rytter, Aarhus University
12.00-‐12.45: Wrap up -‐ general discussion
13.00: Lunch at Moesgaard Museum
Goodbye
Conference abstracts are available here