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November 4, 2009
Call for participation "No!: Subjectivity and Agency in Muslim
rights/Rites of Negation, Durham, NC, Feb. 27-28, 2010
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CALL FOR PAPERS: No!: Subjectivity and Agency in Muslim Rights/Rites of
Negation
Location: North Carolina, United States
Call for Papers Begins: 2009-12-15
Date Submitted: 2009-11-02
Announcement ID: 171703
7th Annual Duke-UNC Graduate Islamic Studies Conference
Graduate students in Islamic Studies at Duke University and the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are now accepting papers for the
following conference:
No!: Subjectivity and Agency in Muslim Rights/Rites of Negation
February 27-28, 2010
Duke University
Keynote Speaker - Kecia Ali, Boston University
And when a limit is established, norms and interdictions are not far
behind
Jacques Derrida
The concept and practice of No! can establish barriers and break them
down. As Georges Bataille explained, No can be passive negation or active
rebellion. Who gets to refuse and how they do so involves subjectivityways
in which individuals relate to themselves and the other. The act of
negation enacts the affirmation of possible alternatives. Such acts range
from Satans refusal to bow before Adam to a wifes legal inability to
refuse her husbands sexual overtures in Muslim jurisprudence. In ordinary
life, individuals enunciate negation through multiple media, including
expressions of tact and satire. In politics, the state expresses its
agency by codifying certain political ideologies, while individuals
actualize their agency by negating or affirming them. Practices of
negation, refusal, and dissent both constitute and are constituted by
subjectivity and society. This connection has often been overlooked in
recent studies of Islam. Therefore, we welcome diverse approaches to
examine negation, agency, and the subject in the study of classical,
medieval, and contemporary Islamicate contexts. We are particularly
interested in interdisciplinary approaches to this theme with regards to
Muslim political theologies, Islamic textual canons, and Muslim
minorities, including those of gender, sexuality, race, and class.
In addition to formal papers, we also welcome films related to theme of
the conference.
Possible paper/film topics may include:
* Refusal or Appropriation of Normative Categories of Gender and Sexuality
* Approaches to Difference in Muslim Intellectual History
* The Construction of Sunni and Shi'a Theology Through Mutual Refusal
* The Role of Dissent in Contemporary Muslim Politics
* Rejection of Arabized Muslim identity
* Negation as a hermeneutical tool in the construction of authority in
jurisprudential methodology
* Re-defining Collective Muslim Narratives and Representations
* Appropriation or negation of legal rulings through the utilization of
Objectives of Islamic Law
* Annihilating the Self in Sufism
* Muslim Dissent as Political Threat
* Asceticism and Martyrdom as Socio-Political Refusal in Early Sufism
* Disavowal of Muslim Minorities
* Refusing Racial Categories within Islam
* Turns from Asharite Theological Hegemony in Contemporary Sunnism
* Appropriations and Negations of the Muslim Past in Contemporary
Apologetic Discourses
The conference will proceed in an interactive workshop format. We ask that
those invited to present papers remain for the duration of the conference
in order to engage the work of fellow participants. This two-day
conference will take place at Duke University.
To apply, please send the following to dukeuncconf@gmail.com:
* Proposal of no more than 500 words, double-spaced
* Paper title
* Curriculum Vitae
The deadline for submissions is December 15, 2009
Organizers:
Brandon Gorman, Department of Sociology, UNC-Chapel Hill
Matthew Hotham, Department of Religious Studies, UNC-Chapel Hill
Nadia Khan, Department of Religion, Duke University
Ali Altaf Mian, Department of Religion, Duke University
Saadia Yacoob, Department of Religion, Duke University
DUKE-UNC Graduate Islamic Studies Conference
Department of Religious Studies
125 Saunders Hall, CB#3225
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3225
Email: dukeuncconf@gmail.com
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