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EVENTS IN DEPTH: Cultures of the Muslim World
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2009-2010 Cultures of the Muslim World Focus
Fall 2009
Accented Film of the Middle East Series "Monsieur Ibrahim et les Fle" (Francois Dupeyron, 2003, France)
September 16, 2009, 8:30-11:30pm. Griffith Theater, Bryan Center
"In a street called Blue in a very poor neighborhood in Paris, Monsieur Ibrahim is an old Muslin Turkish owner of a small market. He becomes friend of the teenager Jewish Moises, tenderly nicknamed Momo, who lives with his father in a small apartment on the other side of the street. Monsieur Ibrahim gives paternal love and teaches the knowledge of the Koran to the boy, receiving in return love and respect." This film series is cosponsored by the Franklin Humanities Institute.
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"Gender and the Interpretation of Islamic Texts: Bint al-Shati's Hermeneutics"
September 17, 2009, 4:30- 6:30pm. East Duke Parlors,
East Duke Building
Mervat Hatem (Political Science, Howard University) on "Biographies of Women from the Prophet's Family" & Ellen McLarney (Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, Duke University) on "Freedom, Equality, and the Gender Politics of Qur'an Interpretation." Respondent: Laura Bier (History, Georgia Institute of Technology). Co-sponsored by Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, International Comparative Studies, Political Science, Women's Studies, and The Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Social Sciences.
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"The Problem of the Satanic Verses and the Formation of Islamic Orthodoxy"
September 29, 2009, 4:15- 5:45pm. 228 Gray
Delivered by Muhammad Shahab Ahmed, Islamic Studies, Harvard University. Shahab Ahmed joined Harvard in Fall 2005 as Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies with a joint appointment between the Committee on the Study of Religion, and the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. Shahab Ahmed’s broad field of study is Islamic intellectual history. He is currently completing a book, to be published from Harvard University Press, entitled "The Problem of the Satanic verses and the Formation of Islamic Orthodoxy." This event is cosponsored with CCSMEMC.
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Accented Film of the Middle East Series "Absurdistan" (Veit Helmer, 2008, Germany/Azerbaijan)
October 28th, 2009, 8:00pm, Griffith Theater,Bryan Center
"An allegorical comedy centered on two childhood sweethearts who seem destined for one another until the women of their isolated village, angered by male indifference toward the water shortage, go on a sex strike that threatens the young couple's first night of love." This film series is cosponsored with the Franklin Humanities Institute.
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Conference: Barefoot across the nation: Maqbool Fida Husain and the idea of India An International Symposium, Duke University, Durham, NC
April 10-11, 2009
This conference will explore the entanglement of the artistic imagination in the cultural politics of risk in our troubled times by considering the oeuvre of Maqbool Fida Husain, arguably modern India’s most iconic and celebrated painter and also possibly that country’s most embattled artist today. Here is an example of his work entitled "Last Supper."
This conference has been funded by the North Carolina Center for South Asian Studies, and the following Duke units:, Visual Studies Initiative, Center for International Studies, Provost's Common Fund, Duke Islamic Studies Center, Arts and Sciences Council, the
Vice Provost for International Affairs, Department of History, John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute, John Hope Franklin Center for International and Interdisciplinary Studies, and the Trent Foundation.
For additional information, contact Sumathi Ramaswamy at sr76@duke.edu
Lecture: When Women Think About Security: Some Feminist Lessons from the Iraq War December 2nd, 6-8 PM, FedEx Global Education Center 4003, UNC
“Security" is a goal that can spark wars and end wars. But too often we don't ask "Whose security?" Feminists from myriad countries pose a deep question for all of us: If we take seriously the sorts of insecurities that women experience in their daily lives, how would we go about re-making "national security policy" and "global security policy?" Looking afresh at the 6-year US-led war in Iraq gives us a chance to explore these urgent questions and craft some useful answers.
Cynthia Enloe (Ph.D. University of California-Berkeley, 1967) is Research Professor, Department of International Development, Community, and Environment and Women's Studies, Clark University (MA). Much of Professor’s Enloe’s work has focused on the struggle for women in developing countries to gain a political voice, and her research on how militaries, governments and corporations shape women’s lives has received international acclaim. She was the 2007 (and first female) recipient of the Susan Strange Award – given to that person judged to have done the most in a given year to challenge conventional wisdom in the international studies community. She is the author of a dozen books as well as numerous edited books and articles. Her most recent works are Maneuvers: The International Politics of Militarizing Women’s Lives (University of California Press, 2000); and Globalization and Militarism: Feminists Make the Link (Rowman and Littlefield, 2007). The talk will be sponsored by the Triangle Institute For Security Studies and co-convened by the UNC Curriculum in Peace, War and Defense, the UNC Curriculum in Women’s Studies, the Carolina Women’s Center, the Duke Women’s Studies Program, and the UNC-Workshop Series “Gender, War and Politics in Europe and beyond”.
Islamic Civilization and Muslim Networks Series, UNC PRESS
This series, co-edited by Bruce Lawrence (Duke) and Carl Ernst (UNC-Chapel Hill), offers fresh perspectives of Muslim Networks. Click here to read more about the series.