Day 1, Friday – April 29, 2011
1. Assessing Approaches to Islamic Studies – 9:30 to 11:15
Michael Nafi, Ph.D. Candidate, Political Philosophy, Université Paris VII – Postcolonial theory: beyond the ethical moment.
Mourad Laabdi, Ph.D. Candidate, Centre and Department for the Study of Religion, University of Toronto – Social Anthropology of Islam and the Colonial Heritage: The Case of Ernest Gellner’s ‘Saints of the Atlas’.
Basit Iqbal, M.A. Candidate, Centre and Department for the Study of Religion, University of Toronto – The Legal Consummation of Sunni Islam and the Limits of Agamben’s Neo-Pauline Messianism.
Discussant: Fatima Seedat, Ph.D Candidate, Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University
2. Islamic Discourses of Language in the Muslim World – 11:15 to 1:00
Aun Hasan Ali, Ph.D. Candidate, Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University – Some notes on 'ilm al-wad'.
Kathleen Foody, Ph.D. Candidate, Religious Studies, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill – Muslim Scholars and the Islamic State: Methods and Models of Critique in the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Joel Blecher, Ph.D. Candidate, Religion, Princeton University – The Emergence of 'Paratexts' as a Key Arena of Hadith Commentary.
Discussant: Prof. Lynda Clarke, Chair of Department of Religion, Concordia University
Lunch – 1:15 to 2:00
3. Religious Identity in Modern South Asia – 2:00 to 3:30
Faisal Malik, M.A. Candidate, Near & Middle Eastern Civilizations, University of Toronto – The Transformation of Muslim-Hindu Relations in India during the Colonial Period.
Rashed Chowdhury, Ph.D. Candidate, History, McGill University – A Pakistani Christian Perspective on Muslims: The Views of Michael Nazir-Ali.
Discussant: Prof. Narendra Subramanian, Political Science, McGill University
4. Reassessing Indo-Persian Historiography – 3:30 to 5:00
Alberto Tiburcio Urquiola, Ph.D. Candidate, Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University – Historicizing “History”: the cases of Shibli and Barani.
Usman Hamid, M.A. Candidate, Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University – The Merry Mughals: Wine consumption and renunciation in two Timurid Imperial Memoirs.
Discussant: Prof. Prashant Keshavmurthy, Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University
5. Clerics and Islam in a Technological World– 5:00-7:00
Pascal Abidor, Ph.D. Candidate, Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University – Clerical Authority and the Telegraph in the Persia Tobacco Protest, 1890-1892.
Junaid Quadri, Ph.D. Candidate, Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University – Shari‘a in a Technological Age: The Impact of the Telegraph in Modern Egypt.
Jean-Mathieu Potvin, Ph.D. Candidate, Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University – Constructions of Trans-Madhhabic Islamic Law: The Case of the International Islamic Fiqh Academy in Jeddah.
Discussant: Prof. F. Jamil Ragep, Canada Research Chair in the History of Science in Islamic Societies and Director of the Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University
Day 2, Saturday – April 30, 2011
1. Cultural Production, Configuration, and Reception in a Changing World – 10:00 to 11:45
Isabelle Imbert, Ph.D. Candidate, Islamic Art History, Sorbonne University – The Dreamed Orient of Collectors: Reception of Turkish, Persian, and Indian albums in Europe.
Özlem-Gulin Dagoglu, Ph.D. Candidate, Art History, University of Montreal – The place of women in the construction of Turkish national identity: The case of the first Turkish Muslim female painter, Mihri Müsfik (1886-1954).
Hussam Eldin Raafat Ahmed, M.A. Candidate, Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University – The Francophone Literary Circles and Salons in Early 20th Century Cairo: Some Preliminary thoughts on the Cultural De-Arabization of the Syro-Lebanese of Egypt.
Discussant: Laila Parsons, Institute of Islamic Studies and Department of History, McGill University
2. Muslim Experience in Europe and America – 11:45 to 1:30
Mahan Mirza, Ph.D. Religious Studies, Yale University – Islam and America: A Framework for Inquiry.
Zeinab McHeimech Ph.D. Candidate, English, University of Western Ontario – ‘Musicking’ Islam: Jazz and Diaspora in Abu-Jaber’s Arabian Jazz.
Ajmal Hussain, Ph.D. Candidate, Sociology, London School of Economics and Political Science – (Dis)locating Muslims in Britain today.
Discussant: Sana Saeed, MA Candidate, Islamic Studies, McGill University
Lunch – 1:30 to 2:30
4. Authority, Contestation, and the Orthodox in Islam – 2:30 to 4:30
Philipp Bruckmayr. International Research Center for Cultural Studies, – Cultural and Linguistic Fault-lines: Logospheres and scripts in the persistence and disappearance of local forms of Islam.
Omar Edaibat, M.A. Candidate, Centre and Department for the Study of Religion, University of Toronto – Public Reason, Reasonable Pluralism, and Religious Freedom: Re-visiting the Criminalization of Apostasy in Pre-modern Islamic Law.
Bariza Umar, Ph.D. Candidate, Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University – Dictating Doctrine: The construction of orthodoxy in an 18th century pedagogical text.
Nebil Hussen, Ph.D. Candidate, Near Easter Studies, Princeton University – Contempt for Bukhari and Muslim: Hadith Skepticism amongst Muslim scholars of the 20th Century.
Discussant: Bilal Ibrahim, Ph.D Candidate, McGill University
4. Interpreting Terrorism in the Muslim World – 4:30 to 6:00
Christopher Anzalone, Ph.D. Candidate, Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University – Insurgency, Governance, & Legitimacy in Somalia: A Reassessment of Harakat al-Shabab al-Mujahideen as Militant Social Movement.
Bruno-Olivier Bureau, M.A.Candidate, Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University – Radicalization and Charismatic Authority in Islamic Activism: The Case of an al-Qa‘ida Cleric.
Discussant: Prof. Khalid Mustafa Medani, Political Science and the Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University