Day I – Wednesday, 3 April 2019
12.00 – 13.00 Registration
13.00 – 13.45 Opening and Introduction
Ulrike Freitag (ZMO)
Thematic Section: Religious Worlds
13.45 – 15.15 Religion and Ideas of World Order: Claims, Engagement and Transformations
Convenor: Antía Mato Bouzas (ZMO)
Antía Mato Bouzas (ZMO): “Religion in the Making of Transnational Spaces”
Dietrich Reetz (ZMO): “Claiming and Making Global Space: Muslim Actors from South Asia”
Fatima Tofighi (University of Religions and Denominations, Qom): “Revolutionary Bodies: Self-Disciplining the Muslim Iranian Body in the Face of Empire”
15.45 – 17.15 Governing the Sahel-Sahara: Bad Islam and Good Muslims
Convenor: Britta Frede (ZMO), Judith Scheele (ZMO), Abdoulaye Sounaye (ZMO)
Discussant: Baz Lecocq (Humboldt University, Berlin)
Britta Frede (ZMO): “The Islamic Republic of Mauritania and its Governance of (trans)local Islamic Heritage”
Judith Scheele (ZMO): “Whatever Happened in Northern Mali?”
Abdoulaye Sounaye (ZMO): “Treating Muslim Subjects: Deradicalizing the Sahel”
18.00 – 19.30 Keynote Lecture
Seema Alavi (Delhi University): “Muslim Cosmopolitanism and the Writing of World History”
Day II – Thursday, 4 April 2019
Thematic Section: Values in Circulation
9.30 – 11.00 Making Muslim Spaces in the Indian Ocean
Convenor: Sebastian Prange (University of British Columbia)
Chair and Discussant: Ulrike Freitag (ZMO)
Sebastian Prange (University of British Columbia): “The Hindu King who Loves the Muslims: Expanding the Dar al-Islam on the Sixteenth-Century Malabar Coast”
Scott Reese (University of Northern Arizona): “Small Volumes: Publishing, Print and Networks of Muslim Intellectual Community in the Colonial Indian Ocean”
Tika Ramadhini (ZMO): “Jawah Women’s Learning Activities in Mecca, Nineteenth to Twentieth Century”
11.30 – 13.00 Challenging the North/South Divide: Multicentric Flows in Muslim Worlds
Convenor, Discussant: Stefan B. Kirmse (ZMO)
Chair: Jeanine Dağyeli (Nazarbayev University, Astana)
Rebecca Gould (University of Birmingham): “The Obligation to Migrate: Hijra and Cultural Memory in the Soviet Caucasus Literatures”
Manja Stephan-Emmrich (Humboldt University, Berlin): “Bourgeois Islam and Other Post-national Sensi- bilities: Tracing Im/-material Flows Across Central Asia and the Gulf”
Sumit Mandal (University of Nottingham): “Music, Faith, and Commerce: The Nature, Reach, and Impact of Islamic Devotional Music in Southeast Asia”
14.30 – 16.00 The Moral Economies of Resource Valuation and Extraction
Convenors: Katharina Lange (ZMO), Jeanine Dağyeli (Nazarbayev University, Astana)
Discussant: Jeanine Dağyeli (Nazarbayev University, Astana)
Patrick Schukalla (ZMO): “Becoming the Nuclear Front-End – On the Uranium Frontier in Tanzania”
Erdem Evren (ZMO): “Negotiating Extraction”
Julien Brachet (Univers. Paris I, IRD): “The (im)moral Economy of Natron Mining in Northern Chad”
18.00 – 19.30 Roundtable discussion: Was sind muslimische Welten? Fragen an den globalen Norden
Venue: Leibniz-Gemeinschaft, Raum Hannover, 5th floor, Chausseestraße 111, 10115 Berlin
Word of welcome: Matthias Kleiner (Leibniz Association)
Moderation: Ulrike Freitag (ZMO)
Participants:
Charlotte Wiedemann (Berlin)
Mamadou Diawara (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)
Claudia Derichs (Philipps-Universität Marburg)
Bekim Agai (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)
The event will be held in German.
Day III – Friday, 5 April 2019
Thematic Section: Unmaking and Remaking Muslim Worlds
9.30 – 11.00 Overcoming Division – Religious and Non-Religious Norms in Global Transitional Justice Processes
Convenor: Sonja Hegasy (ZMO)
Brahim El Guabli (Williams College): “Islamizing Memory: Islamist Prison Literature and Moroccan Cultural Memory”
Susanne Buckley-Zistel (University of Marburg): “Transnational Memorialisation of Past Atrocities”
Farzana Haniffa (University of Colombo): “Transitional Justice in Sri Lanka: Muslim Engagement with the National Discourse”
11.30 – 13.00 Muslim Liminality in Migrant Spaces: Berlin During the Era of the World Wars
Convenor: Peter Wien (University of Maryland)
Peter Wien (University of Maryland): “Survival Strategies in Nazi Berlin: Husni al-’Urabi’s 89 Months in Exile”
Jan Brauburger (ZMO): “Imperial Anti- colonialism: the Camp Newspaper “El Dschihad” and the Propaganda to Muslim prisoners of
war in Germany, 1915-1918”
David Motadel (London School of Economics and Political Science): “Anti-Colonial Revolutionaries in Wartime Berlin”
Thematic Section: Rethinking Muslim Worlds
14.30 – 16.00 Intellectual Cultures, Philosophy, and Critical Thinkers: Challenges, Pathways and Reservoirs for Decolonization
Convenors: Kai Kresse (ZMO), Nils Riecken (ZMO)
Nils Riecken (ZMO): “Abdallah Laroui’s Situated Universalism:Conceptual Translation and the Re- Working of the Historicity of Concepts”
Anaheed Al-Hardan (American University of Beirut): “On South-South Circulations, Histories and Possibilities in the Arab World”
Abdulkader Tayob (University of Cape Town): “Nativizing Religion between Muslim Intellectuals and the Enlightenment Project”
16.30 – 18.00 Closing Discussion