Islam and Modernity

Islam and Modernity

Council for Advanced Studies Workshop

The Islam and Modernity workshop is predicated on the belief that studying the way Muslim societies and the religion of Islam have interacted with Western modernity poses unique challenges for scholars. The workshop aims to support students interested in tackling these challenges by exposing them to the ongoing research on Islam and Muslims not only in area studies departments but also throughout the social sciences and among scholars of divinity and law.

Petronas Twin Towers and Mosque. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Workshop Schedule

Spring Quarter the workshop will meet from 3:30PM to 5:00PM in Pick Hall Room 218.
Pizza will be provided.
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If you would like more information, or have a paper you would like to submit, contact the student coordinator (Besheer Mohamed) at btm1 @ uchicago.edu

Spring Quarter Presentations

Monday, April 14th: Besheer Mohamed, University of Chicago Department of Sociology. "Religiosity and Secularization in the American Muslim Community"	Link to Abstract Link to Paper
Monday, April 28th: Melissa Howe, University of Chicago Department of Sociology, will be presenting a co-authored paper: Van den Hout, Charlotte, Melissa J. K. Howe, and Richard A. Shweder. "Exposing Muslims to the News: Chicago's Newspaper Stories and Their Impact on Muslims in Brideview, Illinois"	Link to Paper
Tuesday, May 13th: Professor Mahmoud El-Gamal, Rice University. Joint Session With Money Markets and Consumption Workshop: Islamic Finance In Social Sciences Room 108 from 12:00 to 1:30	Money and Markets Workshop Link to Paper
Monday, May 26th: Jeremy Menchik, University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Political Science. "Redefining the War on Terror: American Muslims and the Reappropriation of State Discourse"	Link to Abstract

Winter Quarter Presentations

Monday, January 14th: Jeremy Walton, University of Chicago Department of Anthropology. "Civic Devotion, Secular Dispensation:Considering Turkey's Islamically-Oriented Vakifs"	Link to Paper
Thursday, January 31st: Professor Yvonne Haddad, Georgetown University. "The Globalization of Islam and the Price of Belonging"
Monday, February 11th: Noha Forster, Princeton University Department of Near Eastern Studies, University of Chicago Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. "On Dancing, Death and the Dichotomy of 'Modern' and 'Traditional' Islam in Egypt"	Link to Paper
Monday, February 25th: Barnaby Riedel, University of Chicago Department of Comparative Human Development. "The Character Conjuncture: Moral Education as a Domain of Islamic Adaptation in the United States"	Link to Paper

Fall Quarter Presentations

October 29th : Professor Malika Zeghal, University of Chicago Divinity School. " The Secular State and its Theological Temptations: Rethinking French Secularism and Islam "	Link to Paper
November 12th : Traci lombre, University of Chicago Center for Middle Eastern Studies. "Oil, Foreign Investment & Labor Markets: Mapping the History of Globalization of the Islamic Middle East"	Link to Abstract Link to Paper
November 19th: Craig Joseph, University of Chicago Department of Comparative Human Development. "Ethical discourse and globalized Islam: findings from an empirical study of Muslims' conceptions of akhlaq"