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Program

All events located at UNC-Chapel Hill, FedEx Global Education Center, Room 4003

 

FRIDAY, February 26, 2016

Arrive to RDU, Hotel Check-In (Chapel Hill University Inn)

 

SATURDAY, February 27, 2016*

9:00-9:30am – Registration/Breakfast

9:30-10:00am – Opening remarks, Fadi Bardawil, UNC-CH, Asian Studies

10:00-10:15am – Coffee Break

10:15-11:45am – Panel 1: Ottoman/Turkish Modernities Reconfigured

  • Kenan Tekin: “Reconfiguring Science and Religion in the Late Ottoman Empire”
  • Taraneh Wilkinson: “Turkish Theology Faculties: Redefining Modernity”
  • Faculty Respondent – Cemil Aydin, UNC-CH, History

11:45am-1:15pm – Lunch

1:15-2:45pm – Panel 2: Religious Economies of Reform

  • Ceyda Karamursel: “Slaves, Slaveholders, and the State in Reform-Era Ottoman Empire”
  • Arthur Zarate: “Rethinking Islamic ‘Moral Economy’”
  • Faculty Respondent: Mustafa Tuna, Duke University, History

2:45pm-3:15pm – Coffee Break

3:15-4:45 – Panel 3: Discursive Formations: Literature, Secularism, and the Islamic Revival

  • Aaron Glasserman: “Emerging Discourse of Islamic Revival in the PRC”
  • Sadaf Jaffer: “Ismat Chugtai, Progressive Literature, and Formations of the Indo-Muslim Secular”
  • Faculty Respondent: Anna Bigelow, North Carolina State University, Religious Studies

4:45pm-5:00pm – Coffee Break

5:00-7:00pm – Dinner at FedEx Global Education Center, Room 4003

 

SUNDAY, February 28, 2016

9:30-10:00am – Breakfast

10:00-11:30am – Panel 4: “Biopolitics: Religion, Race, and Counter-Terrorism”

  • Bilal Nasir: “Reading ‘The Muslim,’ Tracing biopolitics of race in Age of Global Counterterror”
  • Atiya Husain: “Guess Who’s Coming to the Mosque? Beyond and Back to Black and White”
  • Faculty Respondent: Juliane Hammer, UNC-CH, Religious Studies

11:30-11:45am – Break

11:45am-12:15pm – Close Remarks/Discussion

12:15pm-… Lunch in town on your own, flights back home!

 

* This is a preliminary program and may be subject to slight changes.