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2010
FALL LECTURE SERIES
Ali Vural Ak Center for Global
Islamic Studies
George Mason University
The Emergence of a Muslim
Community in Germany: Between Ascription and
Self-Identification
Dr.
Riem Spielhaus (University of Copenhagen)
Thursday,
November 4, 2010
3:00
pm
George
Mason University
Mason
Hall
Conference
Room D3AB
Refreshments
Served
(flyer attached)
While the German public imagines a homogenuous
Muslim community, it consists of many different and competing
voices. A shared sense of community among Muslims of different
national, linguistic and political backgrounds is only slowly
emerging. This development is marked by several nationwide media
debates which have led Muslim journalists, intellectuals and
public personalities to self-identify as such. This lecture will
offer a closer look at how prominent individuals of Muslim
background and Islamic communalists have drawn on their Muslim
identity to raise/answer the urgent question: "Who can speak for
Muslims?"
Riem Spielhaus is a Research Fellow at the Centre for
European Islamic Thought, University of Copenhagen. She obtained
her MA and PhD in Islamic Studies from Humboldt University in
Berlin. Her research focuses on the religious practice of Muslims
and the institutionalization of Islam in Germany and Europe. Her
dissertation on the emergence of a Muslim community in Germany
between ascription and self-identification was awarded the
Augsburg Science Award for Intercultural Studies in 2010.
Cosmopolitanism
& Religious Politics in Afghanistan
Dr. Robert Crews (Stanford University)
Tuesday,
November 9, 2010
3:00 pm
George Mason
University
Mason Hall
Edwin
Meese Room
Refreshments
Served
(flyer attached)
This lecture will situate the
religious politics of Afghanistan in a global framework.
Reflecting on the theme of cosmopolitanism, the talk will trace
the expansive horizons of religious debate in Afghanistan from the
late nineteenth century. It will explore the Taliban and other
actors within this broader context and suggest alternative
readings of the contemporary Afghan religious landscape.
Robert
Crews is
associate professor of History and director of the Center
for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies at
Stanford. He received his BA from UNC-Chapel Hill, an MA
from Columbia, and PhD from Princeton. He is the author of For
Prophet and Tsar: Islam and Empire in Russia and Central
Asia and co-editor of The Taliban and the
Crisis of Afghanistan. In 2009 he was named a Carnegie
Scholar.
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Golnesa Asheghali
Program Coordinator
Ali Vural Ak Center for Global
Islamic Studies
George Mason University
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