BRAIS 2016 Call for Papers

Third Annual Conference

Monday 11 – Tuesday 12 April 2016

Senate House, University of London

Call for panels and papers

Following BRAIS’s successful conferences in Edinburgh (April 2014) and London (April 2015), the organisers invite proposals for whole panels or individual papers on any aspect or sub-discipline of Islamic Studies, for the Third Annual Conference of BRAIS. Islamic Studies is broadly understood to include both Muslim-majority and Muslim-minority contexts as well as historical, textual, contemporary anthropological and sociological approaches.

Pre-arranged panels are particularly welcome on themes within the subject area, such as:

• Qur’anic studies
• Sociology of Islam
• Law
• Muslims in Britain/Europe/North America and other minority contexts
• History, Medieval and Modern
• History of Science
• Philosophy and theology
• Muslims in Africa and Asia
• Intellectual History
• Islamic Art and Architecture
• Diversity within Islam
• Economics and Finance
• Education
• Gender Studies
• Islam in the Media
• Interreligious Relations

Individual proposals will also be considered, and, if accepted, will then be grouped with similar submissions by the conference organisers.

For panels, a 200-word outline of the theme of the panel, together with 200-word abstracts of each paper and a short biography of each presenter, should be submitted using the form which is available HERE.

For individual papers, a 200-word abstract of the paper, with a short biography of the presenter, should be submitted using the form which is available HERE.

All completed forms should be sent by email attachment to conference2016@brais.ac.uk by 5pm (UK time) on Monday 30^th November 2015.

Notification of accepted panels and papers will be circulated in January 2016.

Further details about the Association, including how to join, can be found at www.brais.ac.uk. Registration for the conference will open in February 2016, and early registration is recommended as limited space is available.  The deadline for registration for the conference will be 5 pm (UK time) on Monday 21 March 2016.  

If you have any questions, please contact the Conference Committee on: conference2016@brais.ac.uk or the BRAIS administrator on: brais@ed.ac.uk.

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FAITHS AND (IN)SECURITY IN AFRICA

JULY 4 – 8, 2016

ST PAUL’S UNIVERSITY, KENYA
CENTRE FOR CHRISTIAN-MUSLIM RELATIONS IN EASTLEIGH

As the issues of faith and securitization of every
day in the world today is a multifaceted
phenomena with implication on government
policies, peace building, interfaith relation, human
rights, war on terrorism, development among
others, this call invites abstracts that address
(though not limited to) the following key
questions:
• What are the causes and manifestations of
religiously-motivated violence?

• How have State agencies responded to
protracted religious conflicts?
• How has media depicted issues of religion
and security?
• How has the war on terror infringed/
enhanced human rights of citizens
within nation-states?
• Have religious actors been co-opted
adequately in addressing the problems
of security?
• How can theological education contribute
towards understanding of relation between
faith and security?
• What are the theoretical and conceptual
frameworks that can help explain the
intractable place of religious traditions and
(in) security today?

• How have different humanities and social
sciences framed and approached debates on
faith and security?

SUBMISSION DETAILS
We welcome papers that are both theoretical and
empirical from disciplines such as theology,
religious studies, political science, law,
anthropology, social geography, sociology, media
studies and related areas.
Kindly submit a 250-300 words abstract and a
short bio-data by email to Dr Joseph Wandera
wandera@spu.ac.ke, Coordinator Centre for
Christian Muslim Relations in Eastleigh, Dr
HalkanoWario, Postdoc Fellow Volkswagen
Foundation hwario@spu.ac.ke or Prof. Esther
Mombo, Director International Partnerships and
Alumni mombo@spu.ac.ke by 30 November
2015.

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CALL FOR PAPERS

Workplaces are key sites for everyday encounters with and negotiations over cultural difference, and as situations of ‘enforced contact’ they represent an ideal setting to explore the quality and dynamics of intercultural relationships. In particular, workplaces are now the site for global interactions and connections due to the presence of highly skilled and low skilled temporary migrants working side-by-side locals. Many people spend a considerable part of their lives at work where not only working relationships develop, but social ones as well. It is at work where many have the only opportunity to interact with those different from them on a regular basis. These are prosaic places of enforced encounter –where ethnic and racial differences are confronted and negotiated on an everyday basis. Yet the workplace is a special kind of micro-public, where the rules and codes of contemporary working cultures interplay with collegial and hierarchical relationships which in turn mediate inter-ethnic relationships. In addition to workplace cultures, and structural changes to work, media cultures and wider national discourses on migrants and ethnic groups also resonate through situated encounters with and meanings made of difference. While the importance of the workplace as providing a sense of identity, community, camaraderie, and a focus for community and social life has been well documented in literature on the sociology of work, remarkably, very little research has considered the relationship between these workplace changes and intercultural relationships in the workplace.

We invite papers that explore multicultural relations at the workplace and address one or more of the following themes:

• Production and practices of sociality at work
• Gendered workplace social relations
• Religion and workplace sociality
• Conviviality and cross-cultural friendship
• Workplace and racial discrimination
• Inter-cultural exchange and transformation
• Workplace changes and intercultural relationships
• Highly skilled and low skilled migrant workers and the workplace

Selected papers will be included in a special issue of a peer-reviewed journal.

Convenors: Selvaraj Velayutham (Macquarie University), Catherine Gomes (RMIT) .

Keynote/Plenary speakers:

 Prof. Francis Tanglao-Aguas (College of William and Mary)

A.Prof. Amanda Wise (Macquarie University)

A/Prof Daniel PS Goh (National University of Singapore)

Prof. Jonathan Tan (Case Western Reserve University)

Prof Susan Stethlik,( NYU)

Please send a title, abstract or overview of approximately 250 words, and bio  to mwp@smu.edu.sg

Abstracts due: 31 Oct 2015: Registration fee USD$100/-

Successful applicants will be notified by 15 Nov 2015

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CALL FOR PAPER:
MUSLIMS, SPORT and PHYSICAL ACTIVITY

7 December 2015, Leuven-Belgium

Institute for Media Studies, Faculty of Kinesiology and Rehabilitation Sciences, and Gülen Chair at KU Leuven organize an international workshop on Muslims, Sport and Physical Activity. This workshop attempts to provide more insight on the relationship between Muslims who live in Europe and sports-physical activity. We would like to examine how Muslims make sense of religion and their religious identity in sportive activities and how public policies are organized vis-a-vis the needs of the Muslim populations in Europe. During this workshop we want to adress a range of issues such as space, gender, social inclusion, multiculturalism, citizenship, politics of identity and secularism.

Deadline for application: 20th September 2015.

For more information, please see: http://www.gulenchair.com/articles/call-for-paper-muslim-and-sports <http://www.gulenchair.com/articles/call-for-paper-muslim-and-sports>

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Political and public approaches to gender, secularism and multiculturalism

CIUL (Centro de informação urbana de Lisboa) – Lisbon, 11-13 November 2015.

DEADLINE EXTENDED – 25th September 2015

This workshop is the third of a series of international workshops on the theme “Is secularism bad for women? Women, Religion and Multiculturalism in contemporary Europe” focusing on the relation between the role of religion in women’s lives and gender equality (https://womenreligionandsecularism.wordpress.com/). This is an important question to debate, given the increased visibility of religion in the globalized world of the 21st century. While some scholars and political actors argue that a form of political secularism is the best way to ensure gender equality, others consider secularism a bad political arrangement for religious people, because it excludes them from the political and public sphere. Taking forward discussions initiated by Susan Moller Okin’s controversial 1997 essay ‘Is multiculturalism bad for women?’ and continued recently in works of scholars including Saba Mahmood, Joan Scott, Nilüfer Göle, Nadje Al-Ali, Linell Cady and Tracy Fessenden, these workshops address the following questions: how can European societies secure religious women’s freedom and flourishing? What political arrangements offer the most to those who are religious and female? Is religion – at least some forms of it – an impossible impediment, something that must be destroyed in order for women to be free? Or can religion be a positive force in women’s lives, something that enhances their wellbeing and aids social justice?

This workshop will approach these issues by focusing on the public and political spheres, as well as on the theoretical debate. The first workshop at Uppsala University (May 2015) examined the individual or everyday level, while the second one at Coventry University (June 2015) addressed the organisational or group level. In the Lisbon workshop we will investigate the political and public approaches to gender, secularism and multiculturalism. We will focus on how the issues of gender equality, secularism and multiculturalism are treated in three forms of public spheres (1) the mass media sphere, (2) the political sphere, and (3) the theoretical discourse on public religion. How do gender equality, secularism and multiculturalism become public matters? What kind of issues are they intertwined with? What values and controversies do they involve? How are these different spheres intertwined with one another? What kind of understandings of the public do they involve? How are these issues politicized? What kind of challenges do they pose to the theoretical debate? What they may tell us about the contemporary conceptions of religious/female agency and citizenship? What do they tell us about democracy?

Keynote speakers: Dr. Paola Bacchetta (University of California, Berkley); Dr. Teresa Toldy (University Fernando Pessoa, Porto and Centre for Social Studies, Coimbra).

We invite papers that discuss these questions, at the theoretical and empirical level. Abstracts should be sent by 25th September. Abstracts should be written in English and not exceed 300 words. Notification of acceptance will be given by September 30th. Please send abstracts to: wrsworkshops2015@gmail.com

Practical information: The workshop will run from 2 pm on 11 November to 5 pm on 13 November in CIUL (Lisbon, http://www.cm-lisboa.pt/viver/urbanismo/ciul). Papers will be presented in thematic, parallel sessions. Participation fee is 50 euros per participant or 20 euros for PhD, post-doc or civil society organizations, which includes refreshments. The workshop is funded by the International Society for the Sociology of Religion and organized by Dr Kristin Aune (Coventry University), Prof Mia Lӧvheim (Uppsala University), Dr Terhi Utriainen (University of Helsinki), Dr Alberta Giorgi (Centre of Social Studies, University of Coimbra; GRASSROOTSMOBILISE, Eliamep) & Dr Teresa Toldy (Fernando Pessoa University, Porto; Centre of Social Studies, University of Coimbra). A book publication featuring some of the papers is planned.

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CALL FOR COMMUNICATIONS
Religious Facts and Media
International and Interdisciplinary Conference
March 23-24, 2016
Paris
École Pratique des Hautes Études
Groupe Sociétés, Religions, Laïcités

This conference will open for discussion the processes and issues at stake related to
the mediatization of religion in a French society that largely considers itself to be
secular. It will focus on the mainstream news media, both in their conventional and
digital forms. It aims to encourage reflection about the mechanisms of information
production on religious facts and to question the specificity of the media coverage of
religious facts in France compared to foreign media practices.

Organized by Ph.D. candidates of the Groupe Sociétés, Religions, Laïcités (École
Pratique Des Hautes Études-CNRS) and of the Centre de Recherche Historique (École
des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales-CNRS), it is supported by the Campus
Condorcet.

It is open to researchers, post-doctoral fellows and ph. D. candidates, French and
foreign, from all fields. Three sessions of communications will be followed by two
round tables that will gather academics, journalists as well as religious and
institutional actors : “Journalistical Practices and Deontology under the test of
Religious Facts” and “Place and Representations of the Religious and Laïcité in the media”.

https://faitsreligieuxetmedias.wordpress.com

Call for communications deadline October 1, 2015

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The 2016 CESNUR Conference
Co-organized by:
Center for Studies on New Religions (CESNUR)
International Society for the Study of New Religions (ISSNR)
Korean Academy of New Religions (KANR)
Department of Daesoon Theology, Daejin University
RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS IN A GLOBALIZED WORLD: KOREA,
ASIA, AND BEYOND

Daejin University – 1007 Hoguk Road, Pocheon City, Republic of Korea
5 July – 10 July 2016

http://www.cesnur.org/2016/daejin-cfp.htm

CALL FOR PAPERS

The 2016 CESNUR Conference will go to Asia for the second time, after
CESNUR 2011 in Taiwan. We welcome papers especially on this year’s
theme: «Religious Movements in a Globalized World: Korea, Asia, and Beyond».

As the 2014 CESNUR Conference in Waco (Texas), focused on globalization
and how religious movements adapt to external and societal changes, in
2016 we plan to discuss how global is globalization, and how it affects
internal changes in the movements and religious innovation. With this
theme in mind, we will welcome especially papers on recently born new
religious movements, new forms of religious innovation, and on religious
movements in Asia and of Asian origin, particularly Korea.

Papers will also be welcome on:

• Change in “old” new religions
• New religious movements and the visual arts
• Esoteric movements and innovation
• New religions operating as global networks
  and all those topics upon which you are currently conducting research in
  our usual, larger area.

Papers and sessions proposals should be submitted by E-mail before the
close of business on 15 February 2016 to cesnur_to@virgilio.it,
accompanied by an abstract of no more than 300 words and a CV of no more
than 200 words. Proposals may be submitted either in English or in French.

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Ten years after – The Muhammad Cartoons: Perspectives, Reflections, and Challenges

Aalborg, September 28-29, 2015

Ten years have gone since the Danish newspaper Morgenavisen Jyllands-Posten decided to
publish 12 Muhammad cartoons of the prophet Muhammad as cartoonists ‘imagined him’. The
cartoons and the stories about them cost the lives of 150 people. Denmark’s reputation abroad
and export to Arab speaking countries were severely impacted. In addition, it has affected the
opportunities of immigrants, who experience they are being stigmatized and not fully allowed
to be Danes. Many Danes have had their ideas of womanhood among Muslims re-enforced,
ideas of incompatible values have been strengthened, and the debate about freedom of speech
reified. For many non-Western Muslims, the cartoon story has become an icon of Western
arrogance and hatred towards Islam. Their anger came from a deep sense that they are not
respected, that they and their most cherished feelings are “fair game.”
New research suggests that increased racial discrimination and enforcement of racial-cultural
logics of belonging facilitates mobilization of minority youth groups to crime, violence, political
activism, carelessness and terrorism. This development exposes a “schismogenetic” process
that merits academic attention analysis and solutions.
Some of the questions for the conference:
– How is the gap between “the academics” and “the politicals” being played out?
– Is there a gap between the understanding of the crisis in Denmark and abroad?
– What are the differences in the debates about Islam in contemporary Denmark and
other non-Muslim countries?
– Ten years after – did the insult, the ridicule, and the mocking lead to a better society?
– How does the cartoon story relate to the moralization of Danish society and the
emergence of online social media?
– How are democratic values and free speech affected ten years after by the spread of
Islamophobia, policies, and confrontational news media coverage and debate?
Key note speakers are Lene Hansen, Mark Allen Peterson, Deepa Kumar, Peter Hervik and
Arun Kundnani. Chairs of workshops are Carsten Stage, Signe Kjær Jørgensen, Anja Kublitz,
and Mikkel Rytter. Read more at the conference website:
http://www.ten-years-after.aau.dk
Please send your title, abstract, affiliation and contact information before 28 August via
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mc2015
Please send correspondence to:
Peter Hervik hervik@cgs.aau.dk

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