27 January 2025
Muslim Present and its Past
Join HUM:Global, ‘The Other Islamists Project’ at Aarhus University and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam on 30 January 2025 for a one-day workshop with 11 papers being presented on the themes of memory, identity and belonging in the Muslim Middle East.
Time: 30 January 2025
Contact: Fanar Haddad fanar.haddad@hum.ku.dk
The papers
- Taushif Kara, Kings College London. "Revealed Knowledge: Indian Shia and the Making of the Muslim Past."
- Karen Ruffle, University of Toronto. "Whats in a Name? Topographies of Religious Memory and Historical Amnesia in Hyderabad, India."
- Stefan Williamson Fa, University of Cambridge. "Muharram 2020 in the Shadow of the Karabakh War: The Aesthetics of Azerbaijani Mourning."
- Craig Larkin, Kings College London - TBA
- Aline Schlaepfer, University of Geneva. "The Historian's Craft: Memory and History-Writing in Iraq about the Ottomans after the Ottomans."
- Sana Chavoshian, Kate Hamburger Kolleg, Aachen. "Conspire Matters: Muslim Ecological Agency beyond the anthropocene."
- Minoo Mirshahvalad, ToRS, University of Copenhagen. "Transnational Karbala: From Rebellion to Reconciliation."
- Abir Mohamad Ismail, University of Aarhus. "Remembering Palestine: Collective Memory and Palestinian Identity in Denmark."
- Oliver Scharbrodt and Yafa Shanneik, Lund University. "Resisting 'Resistance' in Dahiyeh: Religious Subcultures in Beirut's Shii Neighbourhoods."
- Shenila Khoja-Moojli, Georgetown University - TBA
- Hawraa al-Hasan, University of Cambridge. "The Novelization of Shia Historical Memory in Popular Juvenile Fiction."