Engaging Islam Conference

Engaging Islam:
Feminism, Religiosities and Self-Determination
September 12-16 2007

University of Massachusetts Fall Institute 2007
http://www.engagingislam.umb.edu/

Engaging Islam will be held at University of Massachusetts Boston from
September 12-16, 2007

Conference Details

Engaging Islam: Preliminary Conference Schedule

The Institute is free and open to the public. No registration is necessary
for non-presenting attendees.

Wednesday, September 12

Panel Title: ³Defining Islamic Feminisms² 2-5 PM

* Key-Note: Amina Wadud

* Key-Note: Haideh Moghissi

* Key-Note: Lila Abu-Lughod

Thursday, September 13

Panel Title: ³Negotiating Shari¹a and the ŒSecular State¹²

9-10 AM Key-Note: Madhavi Sunder
10-10:30 AM ­ Break
10:30-12:30 - Panel

* Berna Turam ³Democratization and Muslim Women: The Case of Secular Turkey²

* Natasha Dar ³Liberté, Equalité, Fraternité, and the Shari'a: The
Production of Islamic Legal Knowledges and ŒThe Muslim Woman¹ in the
French-North African Diaspora²

* Mitra Rastegar ³Secularism through U.S. policies and discourses on Islam
and Muslim citizens²

12:30-1:30 Break for Lunch

Panel Title: ³Negotiating Shari¹a and the ŒSecular State¹² (continued)

1:30 ­2:30 Key-Note: Tariq Modood
Break: 2:30-3PM

3-5PM - Panel

* Srimati Basu ³Separate and Unequal: Muslim Women, Women¹s Movements and
Un-uniform Family Law in India"

* Jasmin Zine "Negotiating Religion and the Secular State: Muslim Women and
Shari'a Law Tribunals in Canada"

6-7:30PM - Screen Film ³Silent Waters²
7:30PM ­ Dinner & Presentation by Shahnaz Khan

Friday, September 14

Panel Title: ³Challenging Hegemonic Representations of Muslim Women²

9-10 AM - Keynote: Lara Deeb

10-10:30 AM­ Break
10:30-12:30 - Panel

* Elizabeth Bucar ³Good Hijab, Bad Hijab: The Politics of Religious Dress in
Iran²

* Peter McMurray ³Speaking the Unspeakable: Three Representations of Wartime
Sexual Violence Against Bosnian Muslim Women²

* Surbhi Tiwari ³Whither Fundamentalism or Feminism? Sania Mirza, Œsexy¹
dressing and the politics of (erotic) identity²

12:30-1:30 - Break for Lunch

Panel Title: ³Globalization, Gender Relations, and Sexuality²

1:30-2:30 PM - Key-Note: Jasbir Puar

Break: 2:30-3PM

3-5PM - Panel

* Ashley Al-Sayyad ³Queer Muslim Women: Visibility, Diaspora, and Islam²

* Chris Kelly ³Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgendered (GLBT) Muslim
Converts²

* Sonja Van Wichelen ³Politics of Presence: Feminist Contestations over a
New Muslim Indonesia²

Dinner at a restaurant in Cambridge

Saturday, September 15

Panel Title: ³Political Economy and Islamic Feminisms²

9-10 AM - Keynote: Lamia Karim

10-10:30AM ­ Break

10:30-12:30 - Panel


* Fauzia Ahmed ³Islam, Poverty Alleviation, & Masculinity²

* Roksana Bahramitash ³Iranian Islamic Women as Œthe Other¹: A Class
Analysis of the Role of Women in the Informal Economy and Islamic Micro
Credit²

* Damla Isik ³On Weaving, Sohbet, and Patience: Governance of Time and Labor
in Konya¹s Weaving Industry²

12:30-1:30 - Break for Lunch

Panel Title: ³Coalition-building and Transnationalism²

1:30PM - Key-Note: Zainah Anwar

Break: 2:30-3PM

3-5PM - Panel

* Azza Basarudin ³Recreating Communities of the Faithful?: Negotiating
Gender, Religion & Feminism in Malaysia and Egypt²

* Tina Nebe ³Islam in the Public and Private Spaces: Turkey, Iran, Nigeria,
and Indonesia²

* Dina Siddiqi ³Legislating Fatwas: Dilemmas and Contradictions for
Feminists²

* Rafia Zakaria ³Dangerous Truths: the Muslim woman¹s story and the emerging
chasm between transnational feminist scholarship and activism²

Sunday, September 16

Panel Title: Pedagogy and Islam

9AM-11:30 - Panel

* Hilary Kalmach ³Female Leadership and Activism in Conservative Islamic
Communities: An Islamic Form of Feminism?²


* Juliet Gentile ³From ŒHonorary Man¹ to Sheikha: The Path of Sufi Women in
the West²

* Jennifer Fluri ³The Corporeal Marker: Gender, Space and Islam²

11:30-12 ­ Break

12-1PM - Closing Remarks