Claiming and Making Muslim Worlds: Across and Between the Local and the Global Conference Programme 3-5 April 2019 Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Kirchweg 33, 14129 Berlin
Convenors:
Ulrike Freitag (ZMO) Jeanine Dağyeli (Nazarbayev University, Astana) Paolo Gaibazzi (ZMO) Claudia Ghrawi (ZMO) Norman Saadi Nikro (ZMO) Dietrich Reetz (ZMO)
Registration: MuslimWorlds2019@zmo.de
Day I – Wednesday, 3 April 2019
12.00 – 13.00
Registration
13.00 – 13.45
Opening and Introduction Ulrike Freitag (ZMO)
Thematic Section: Religious Worlds
13.45 – 15.15
Religion and Ideas of World Order: Claims, Engagement and Transformations
Convenor: Antía Mato Bouzas (ZMO) Antía Mato Bouzas (ZMO): “Religion in the Making of Transnational Spaces” Dietrich Reetz (ZMO): “Claiming and Making Global Space: Muslim Actors from South Asia” Fatima Tofighi (University of Religions and Denomina- tions, Qom): “Revolutionary Bodies: Self-Disciplining the Muslim Iranian Body in the Face of Empire”
15.45 – 17.15
Governing the Sahel-Sahara: Bad Islam and Good Muslims
Convenor: Britta Frede (ZMO), Judith Scheele (ZMO), Abdoulaye Sounaye (ZMO)
Discussant: Baz Lecocq (Humboldt University, Berlin) Britta Frede (ZMO):
“The Islamic Republic of Mauritania and its Governance of (trans)local Islamic Heritage”
Judith Scheele (ZMO): “Whatever Happened in Northern Mali?” Abdoulaye Sounaye (ZMO): “Treating Muslim Subjects: Deradicalizing the Sahel”
18.00 – 19.30
Keynote Lecture Seema Alavi (Delhi University): “Muslim Cosmopoli- tanism and the Writing of World History”
Day II – Thursday, 4 April 2019 Thematic Section: Values in Circulation
9.30 – 11.00
Making Muslim Spaces in the Indian Ocean
Convenor: Sebastian Prange (University of British Columbia) Chair and Discussant: Ulrike Freitag (ZMO) Sebastian Prange (University of British Columbia): “The Hindu King who Loves the Muslims: Expanding the Dar al-Islam on the Sixteenth-Century Malabar Coast” Scott Reese (University of Northern Arizona): “Small Volumes: Publishing, Print and Networks of Muslim Intellectual Community in the Colonial Indian Ocean” Tika Ramadhini (ZMO): “Jawah Women’s Learning Activities in Mecca, Nineteenth to Twentieth Century”
11.30 – 13.00
Challenging the North/South Divide: Multicentric Flows in Muslim Worlds
Convenor, Discussant: Stefan B. Kirmse (ZMO) Chair: Jeanine Dağyeli (Nazarbayev University, Astana) Rebecca Gould (University of Birmingham): “The Obligation to Migrate: Hijra and Cultural Memory in the Soviet Caucasus Literatures” Manja Stephan-Emmrich (Humboldt University, Berlin): “Bourgeois Islam and Other Post-national Sensi- bilities: Tracing Im/-material Flows Across Central Asia and the Gulf” Sumit Mandal (University of Nottingham): “Music, Faith, and Commerce: The Nature, Reach, and Impact of Islamic Devotional Music in Southeast Asia”
14.30 – 16.00
The Moral Economies of Resource Valuation and Extraction
Convenors: Katharina Lange (ZMO), Jeanine Dağyeli (Nazarbayev University, Astana) Discussant: Jeanine Dağyeli (Nazarbayev University, Astana) Patrick Schukalla (ZMO): “Becoming the Nuclear Front-End – On the Uranium Frontier in Tanzania” Erdem Evren (ZMO): “Negotiating Extraction” Julien Brachet (Univers. Paris I, IRD): “The (im)moral Economy of Natron Mining in Northern Chad”
18.00 – 19.30
Roundtable discussion: Was sind muslimische Welten? Fragen an den globalen Norden
Venue: Leibniz-Gemeinschaft, Raum Hannover, 5th floor, Chausseestraße 111, 10115 Berlin Word of welcome: Matthias Kleiner (Leibniz Association) Moderation: Ulrike Freitag (ZMO) Participants: Charlotte Wiedemann (Berlin) Mamadou Diawara (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt) Claudia Derichs (Philipps-Universität Marburg) Bekim Agai (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt) The event will be held in German.
Day III – Friday, 5 April 2019 Thematic Section: Unmaking and Remaking Muslim Worlds
9.30 – 11.00
Overcoming Division – Religious and Non- Religious Norms in Global Transitional Justice Processes
Convenor: Sonja Hegasy (ZMO) Brahim El Guabli (Williams College): “Islamizing Memory: Islamist Prison Literature and Moroccan Cultural Memory” Susanne Buckley-Zistel (University of Marburg): “Transnational Memorialisation of Past Atrocities” Farzana Haniffa (University of Colombo): “Transitional Justice in Sri Lanka: Muslim Engagement with the National Discourse”
11.30 – 13.00
Muslim Liminality in Migrant Spaces: Berlin During the Era of the World Wars
Convenor: Peter Wien (University of Maryland) Peter Wien (University of Maryland): “Survival Strategies in Nazi Berlin: Husni al-’Urabi’s 89 Months in Exile” Jan Brauburger (ZMO): “Imperial Anti- colonialism: the Camp Newspaper “El Dschihad” and the Propaganda to Muslim prisoners of war in Germany, 1915-1918” David Motadel (London School of Economics and Political Science): “Anti-Colonial Revolutionaries in Wartime Berlin” Thematic Section: Rethinking Muslim Worlds
14.30 – 16.00
Intellectual Cultures, Philosophy, and Critical Thinkers: Challenges, Pathways and Reservoirs for Decolonization
Convenors: Kai Kresse (ZMO), Nils Riecken (ZMO) Nils Riecken (ZMO): “Abdallah Laroui’s Situated Universalism:Conceptual Translation and the Re- Working of the Historicity of Concepts” Anaheed Al-Hardan (American University of Beirut): “On South-South Circulations, Histories and Possibilities in the Arab World” Abdulkader Tayob (University of Cape Town): “Nativizing Religion between Muslim Intellectuals and the Enlightenment Project”
16.30 – 18.00
Closing Discussion
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