Workshop:
Islamic Pasts and Futures in East Asia’s Worldmaking
September 23, 2022 – September 24, 2022
Venue: Historische Sternwarte, University of Göttingen, Geismar Landstraße 11, 37083 Göttingen
*There is only a limited number of seats for attendance onsite. Please contact xiaoyang.zhao@stud.uni-goettingen.de for inquiries.
Program:
September 23, 2022 (Friday)
| 11:00 –
11:20 |
Opening and Introduction
Dominic Sachsenmaier (University of Göttingen) Janice Hyeju Jeong (University of Göttingen) Mohammad Alsudairi (King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies) |
| 11:30 –
14:00 |
Panel I. Visions and Instrumentalizations of Islam in Asia: Historical Trajectories
Chair: Janice Hyeju Jeong (University of Göttingen) |
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Cemil Aydin (University of North Carolina Chapel Hill) Inter-Asian Muslim Experiences of World-Making and World-Breaking in the Long 20th Century |
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Ulrich Brandenburg (University of Zurich) Asia, Muslim Asia, and the Challenge to Geography |
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Yee Lak Elliot Lee (Leipzig University) Re-Territorialization of Hui Muslims in Early 20th Century China: Historical and Demographic Knowledge Production |
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Hale Eroglu (Bogazici University) The Awakened Muslim: Turkish Modernity in Chinese Muslim Reformist Thought |
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| 15:30 –
16:30
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Keynote Address by Selcuk Esenbel (Bogazici University) “Islam and East Asia in World-Making: Local and Regional Maps Embedded into a Globalizing World” |
| 17:00 –
18:45 |
Panel II. Crisis, Community, and Control in Altishahr/Xinjiang
Chair: Cemil Aydin (University of North Carolina Chapel Hill) |
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Elke Spiessens (Leiden University, WWU Münster) CCP Policy towards Uyghur Islam in the 21st Century: What Changed? |
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Björn Alpermann (University of Würzburg) A Vanishing Act? Islam in Contemporary Xinjiang |
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Rachel Harris (SOAS University of London) Religious Experience and Manufactured Spectacle in Xinjiang |
September 24, 2022 (Saturday)
| 10:00 –
11:45
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Panel III. The Question of “Muslim” Ethnicities and Minorities in “non-Muslim” Asia
Chair: Selcuk Esenbel (Bogazici University) |
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Rian Thum (University of Manchester) Inter-Asian Islamophobia |
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Wlodzimierz Cieciura (University of Warsaw) Huizu – a Chinese ‘Muslim race’? Muslim Racialization and Self-Racialization in Modern China. |
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Yoko Yamashita (Sophia University) Multicultural Freedom and Discursive Modes of Control over Muslims in Contemporary Japan |
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| 13:00 –
14:45 |
Panel IV. The Politics of “Acceptable” Islam: Aesthetics and Public Visibility
Chair: Liu Kang (Duke University) |
| Soojeong Yi (Sogang Euro-MENA Institute, Sogang University)
Social Integration in South Korea: Ban-Opticon and Recognition Struggle
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Yang Yang (National University of Singapore) Traveling Muslim Men as Cultural Assets: Popularized Islam, Heritage, Diplomacy, and the Silk Road in China |
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Michael Malzer (University of Würzburg) From Arabian Nights to China’s Bordeaux: the Vanishing Role of Islam in Yinchuan, Ningxia |
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| 15:00 –
16:00
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Keynote Address by Engseng Ho (Duke University): “Mobile Muslims and Majoritarian States: Open and Shut Cases” |
| 16:30 –
18:15 |
Panel V. Dwelling in Migration and Displacement: Tensions and Opportunities between Global Expanses and Westphalian Borders
Chair: Zhu Guohua (East China Normal University) |
| Francesca Rosati (University of Leiden)
Muslim Women in Northwestern China between Islamization and Chinafication: The Case of Women’s Madrasas in Linxia |
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Leila Chebbi (CETOBaC) In the ways of Tabligh: Sinicization as a Survival Strategy for a Global Islamic Revivalist Movement? |
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Atsushi Yamagata (University of Wollongong) Responses to the Syrian Refugee Crisis in Japan |
Download the program here:
Public Conference Program “Islamic Pasts and Futures in East Asia’s Worldmaking”
For further information please refer to the website of the Joint Center for Advanced Studies “Worldmaking from a Global Perspective: A Dialogue with China”.
Organizers
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