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01-07-10: Colorado - Islam and Media
01-07-10: Colorado - Islam and Media
Call for Papers
Islam and the Media
January 7-10, 2010
The Center for Media, Religion and Culture
School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Colorado, Boulder www.colorado.edu/journalism/cmrc
The events of September 11, 2001 have unleashed an unprecedented period of global re-thinking of issues in media and religion. Islam has emerged as a major focus of inquiry and debate, but the interaction between contemporary Islam and the media has rarely been addressed. This conference will thus engage a set of questions on the place of Islam within global, regional, national and local media.
If we believe the torrent of popular headlines on Islam today, it seems that only Muslim extremists are talking about their religion, pursuing a project that claims to defend it from “secularized” Western culture. From Bin Laden’s call to jihad to the angry reaction of Muslims to the Danish cartoons of the prophet Muhammad, Muslims are portrayed in the media as irrational followers of a religion adamantly out of step with modernity. In the face of this, and perhaps in order to balance their coverage of Islam, Western journalists, pundits, and others have been asking “where are the moderate Muslims?” But few true moderates have emerged. Instead, some Western media have turned to another extreme: Muslim secularists or “Muslim non-believers”--voices which deserve media attention, but which arguably stand at the opposite fringe, rather than nearer the center of how Islam is lived and understood today.
Muslims, both in the Muslim world and in the diaspora, have found themselves compelled to speak for the ‘real’ Islam and explain its relevance in modernity both to themselves and to non-Muslims. This process is at the same time generating divergent discourses that arguably are already coming to challenge the religious authority of clerical Islam. Today, Muslim men and women, young and old, secularists and Islamists, Westerners and Easterners, gay and straight, rappers and comedians, journalists and scholars, bloggers and televangelists, are changing the conventional pathways of religious discourse and disintegrating the old centers of knowledge production within Islam. In fact, Muslims around the world are taking advantage of new media platforms like the Internet and other forms of conventional media like satellite television, music and film to articulate an arguably ‘pure’ or ‘modern’ Islam. These media have become prime discursive spaces in which Islamic knowledge is contested, reinterpreted, and popularly re-mediated. Given the unprecedented amplification of this inner struggle within Islam, it is imperative to ask questions such as: who speaks for Islam today using what original platforms? Does the pluralization of Muslim voices lead necessarily to innovations in the core of Islamic teachings or is it merely a shift in method to reaffirm a message of orthodoxy? Are these new voices accessible to large numbers of Muslims? And how are contemporary media deployed to facilitate this shift in Islamic knowledge production? Thus, a range of questions dealing with the mediation of Islam and other religions are also coming to the fore.
This international conference will bring together scholars on Islam and contemporary media, media professionals, activists and NGOs to reflect on the implications of these developments. Papers and panels may address, but should not be limited to, the following topics:
• The representation of Islam in global media
• Journalism and Islam
• Images of Islam in Western entertainment media
• Muslim voices in Western media
• Media and the “clash of civilizations”
• Contemporary Islamic media and the transformation of religious knowledge
• The impact of new Muslim media on patterns of religious learning and practice
• The proliferation of Islamic websites and Islamic discourse on the Internet
• The weakening of traditional Islamic institutions
• Articulations of Islam in popular culture
• The intersections of Islam and consumer culture
• The impact of mediated transnational Islam on the Ummah and nation
• The role of Muslim diasporas in the new Islam
• The role of women in shaping the teachings of new Islam
• Muslim minorities’ use of media globally, regionally, and locally
• The impact of new media on social and cultural patterns in Muslim societies
• Representations of contemporary Islam in Muslim and Western media
• New Muslim media, public sphere and democracy
• Islam, globalization, and religious identity
• Contemporary Islamic thought and new mediations of Islamic heritage
• Methodologies: how to study Islam in the media age
• Methodologies: social-scientific, humanistic, and “theological” analyses
• Media and the making of Islamic religious “celebrity”
Confirmed Keynote Speakers
• Charles Hirschkind: University of California, Berkeley- author of The Ethical Soundscape: Cassette Sermons and Islamic Counterpublics.
• Zarqa Nawaz: filmmaker and the writer of the critically-acclaimed TV series A Little Mosque on the Prairie.
• Gary Bunt: University of Wales- author of iMuslims: Rewiring the House of Islam
• Naif Al-Mutawa: creator of the popular Islamic-themed comic series "The 99".
• Mona Eltahawy: an award-winning syndicated columnist and an international public speaker on Arab and Muslim issues.
Featured Documentaries:
- New Muslim Cool by Jennifer Maytorena Taylor: this documentary gives audiences an insider’s view of a little-known cultural fusion between Muslims and street beats that has been developing since the very beginnings of hip-hop culture. The result is a surprising challenge to stereotypes of both Muslims and urban youth in America that encourages viewers to look critically at the “clash of civilizations” between Islam and the West.
Deadline
A detailed conference Website will be available shortly. Please send a 300-word abstract by July 10, 2009 to Nabil Echchaibi nabil.echchaibi@colorado.edu
For further information and comments please contact Nabil Echchaibi at nabil.echchaibi@colorado.edu or Stewart Hoover at stewart.hoover@colorado.edu
Nabil Echchaibi
Assistant Professor of Journalism and Communication
Associate Director of the Center for Media, Religion and Culture
University of Colorado-Boulder
nabil.echchaibi@colorado.edu
Islam in a New Media Age Blog
http://www.nabilechchaibi.com/blog.php
Call for Papers
Islam and the Media
January 7-10, 2010
The Center for Media, Religion and Culture
School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Colorado, Boulder www.colorado.edu/journalism/cmrc
The events of September 11, 2001 have unleashed an unprecedented period of global re-thinking of issues in media and religion. Islam has emerged as a major focus of inquiry and debate, but the interaction between contemporary Islam and the media has rarely been addressed. This conference will thus engage a set of questions on the place of Islam within global, regional, national and local media.
If we believe the torrent of popular headlines on Islam today, it seems that only Muslim extremists are talking about their religion, pursuing a project that claims to defend it from “secularized” Western culture. From Bin Laden’s call to jihad to the angry reaction of Muslims to the Danish cartoons of the prophet Muhammad, Muslims are portrayed in the media as irrational followers of a religion adamantly out of step with modernity. In the face of this, and perhaps in order to balance their coverage of Islam, Western journalists, pundits, and others have been asking “where are the moderate Muslims?” But few true moderates have emerged. Instead, some Western media have turned to another extreme: Muslim secularists or “Muslim non-believers”--voices which deserve media attention, but which arguably stand at the opposite fringe, rather than nearer the center of how Islam is lived and understood today.
Muslims, both in the Muslim world and in the diaspora, have found themselves compelled to speak for the ‘real’ Islam and explain its relevance in modernity both to themselves and to non-Muslims. This process is at the same time generating divergent discourses that arguably are already coming to challenge the religious authority of clerical Islam. Today, Muslim men and women, young and old, secularists and Islamists, Westerners and Easterners, gay and straight, rappers and comedians, journalists and scholars, bloggers and televangelists, are changing the conventional pathways of religious discourse and disintegrating the old centers of knowledge production within Islam. In fact, Muslims around the world are taking advantage of new media platforms like the Internet and other forms of conventional media like satellite television, music and film to articulate an arguably ‘pure’ or ‘modern’ Islam. These media have become prime discursive spaces in which Islamic knowledge is contested, reinterpreted, and popularly re-mediated. Given the unprecedented amplification of this inner struggle within Islam, it is imperative to ask questions such as: who speaks for Islam today using what original platforms? Does the pluralization of Muslim voices lead necessarily to innovations in the core of Islamic teachings or is it merely a shift in method to reaffirm a message of orthodoxy? Are these new voices accessible to large numbers of Muslims? And how are contemporary media deployed to facilitate this shift in Islamic knowledge production? Thus, a range of questions dealing with the mediation of Islam and other religions are also coming to the fore.
This international conference will bring together scholars on Islam and contemporary media, media professionals, activists and NGOs to reflect on the implications of these developments. Papers and panels may address, but should not be limited to, the following topics:
• The representation of Islam in global media
• Journalism and Islam
• Images of Islam in Western entertainment media
• Muslim voices in Western media
• Media and the “clash of civilizations”
• Contemporary Islamic media and the transformation of religious knowledge
• The impact of new Muslim media on patterns of religious learning and practice
• The proliferation of Islamic websites and Islamic discourse on the Internet
• The weakening of traditional Islamic institutions
• Articulations of Islam in popular culture
• The intersections of Islam and consumer culture
• The impact of mediated transnational Islam on the Ummah and nation
• The role of Muslim diasporas in the new Islam
• The role of women in shaping the teachings of new Islam
• Muslim minorities’ use of media globally, regionally, and locally
• The impact of new media on social and cultural patterns in Muslim societies
• Representations of contemporary Islam in Muslim and Western media
• New Muslim media, public sphere and democracy
• Islam, globalization, and religious identity
• Contemporary Islamic thought and new mediations of Islamic heritage
• Methodologies: how to study Islam in the media age
• Methodologies: social-scientific, humanistic, and “theological” analyses
• Media and the making of Islamic religious “celebrity”
Confirmed Keynote Speakers
• Charles Hirschkind: University of California, Berkeley- author of The Ethical Soundscape: Cassette Sermons and Islamic Counterpublics.
• Zarqa Nawaz: filmmaker and the writer of the critically-acclaimed TV series A Little Mosque on the Prairie.
• Gary Bunt: University of Wales- author of iMuslims: Rewiring the House of Islam
• Naif Al-Mutawa: creator of the popular Islamic-themed comic series "The 99".
• Mona Eltahawy: an award-winning syndicated columnist and an international public speaker on Arab and Muslim issues.
Featured Documentaries:
- New Muslim Cool by Jennifer Maytorena Taylor: this documentary gives audiences an insider’s view of a little-known cultural fusion between Muslims and street beats that has been developing since the very beginnings of hip-hop culture. The result is a surprising challenge to stereotypes of both Muslims and urban youth in America that encourages viewers to look critically at the “clash of civilizations” between Islam and the West.
Deadline
A detailed conference Website will be available shortly. Please send a 300-word abstract by July 10, 2009 to Nabil Echchaibi nabil.echchaibi@colorado.edu
For further information and comments please contact Nabil Echchaibi at nabil.echchaibi@colorado.edu or Stewart Hoover at stewart.hoover@colorado.edu
Nabil Echchaibi
Assistant Professor of Journalism and Communication
Associate Director of the Center for Media, Religion and Culture
University of Colorado-Boulder
nabil.echchaibi@colorado.edu
Islam in a New Media Age Blog
http://www.nabilechchaibi.com/blog.php
Monday, June 15, 2009
07-04-09 : Washington ISNA Dinner
07-04-09 : Washington ISNA Dinner
By generously donating to ISNA, you help sponsor youth programs, youth camps, regional conferences, interfaith, daw'ah outreach, and Imam Leadership training; all of which helps the Ummah at large. All the contributions made are put directly back into these programs that help the Muslim communities in North America.Please pre-register children under 10 for the complimentary child care, they will not be admitted into the luncheon.Luncheon tickets can be purchased online or contact Khadeejah Farooq at (317)839-8157 ext 809 or
Community Service Recognition Luncheon (CSRL)Saturday, July 4, 2009 from 12:15-2:30pm
Grand Ballroom, Renaissance Hotel, 999 Ninth Street NW, Washington, D.C. 20001
Grand Ballroom, Renaissance Hotel, 999 Ninth Street NW, Washington, D.C. 20001
Ticket Price: $200 per seat or $2000 per table of 10.
By generously donating to ISNA, you help sponsor youth programs, youth camps, regional conferences, interfaith, daw'ah outreach, and Imam Leadership training; all of which helps the Ummah at large. All the contributions made are put directly back into these programs that help the Muslim communities in North America.Please pre-register children under 10 for the complimentary child care, they will not be admitted into the luncheon.Luncheon tickets can be purchased online or contact Khadeejah Farooq at (317)839-8157 ext 809 or
Date: July 4, 2009
Sunday, June 14, 2009
12-04-09 : East West Encounters- Gulen
12-04-09 : East West Encounters- Gulen Movement
Conference in Los Angeles, CA
July 15 - deadline for paper submission
Invitation to a conference on "East and West Encounters: The Gulen
Movement"
www.gulenconference.net
Sponsors:
Office of Religious Life at the University of Southern California,
Department of Theological Studies at Loyola Marymount University,
Santa Monica College International Education Center
Pacifica Institute
Editorial Board:
Dean Varun Soni - University of Southern California
Prof. Juan Campo - UC Santa Barbara
Prof. Reza Aslan - UC Riverside
Prof. Jill Carroll - Rice University
Prof. Reuven Firestone - Hebrew Union College
Prof. Amir Hussain - Loyola Marymount University
Prof. Daniel Skubik - California Baptist University
Prof. Jon Paulien - Loma Linda University
Prof. John Olsen - University of Arizona
Prof. Richard Penaskovic - Auburn University
Prof. Thomas Burns - University of Oklahoma
Prof. Alan Godlas - University of Georgia
Dear Dr. X,
We are pleased to announce the International Conference on East and West
Encounters: The Gülen Movement, to be held December 4 to 6, 2009 in Los
Angeles, California, USA. This conference follows a series of very
successful conferences on the Gülen movement that are held at Georgetown
University (2008), House of Lords & London School of Economics (2007),
University of Oklahoma (2006) and Rice University (2005).
During the past several years, over 300 academics like yourself around
the world studied and presented the impact of Gülen movement over
religious, cultural, social spheres of the world. The growing interest
in this new exciting field led us to focus attention on this emerging
research area and thus, we are convening the International Conference on
"East and West Encounters: The Gülen Movement", to be held December 4-6,
2009 at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California,
USA. The abstract deadline for presentations is July 15, 2009.
Topics include:
. Impact of Gülen movement in the encounter between East and West
. Democracy and dialogue: Gülen's contributions
. Gülen inspired educational institutions
. Structure, development and finance in the Gülen movement
. Women and gender roles in the Gülen movement
. Humanistic vision of Gülen
. Gülen's contributions to Islamic theology
. Gülen's impact on the youth
/The Editorial Board is especially interested to the contributions
regarding the following topics: /
. Contributions of the Gülen movement to the dialogue between East and West
. Gülen's view of the challenges facing Muslim citizens in the western
democracies
. Gülen's view on Zimmi's: status of non-Muslims in the Muslim world
. Violence in the name of God: Gülen's fight with violence
. Gülen's view of the clash of civilizations
. Gülen's view on Islamic theocracies
. Gülen's perspective on Muslim and non-Muslim thinkers and philosophers
. Gülen's understanding of humanism
. Social sciences and arts in Gülen inspired schools
. The impact of the Environment and Energy Olympiads by Gülen inspired
schools and organizations
. Educational transformation of African youth by Gülen inspired schools
. Character education in Gülen inspired schools
. Recruitment and fundraising in the Gülen movement
. Gülen's role in the movement
. Post-Gülen survival of the Gülen Movement
. Advantages and disadvantages of the lack of central coordination in
the Gülen movement
. Is a Gülen inspired insurance company, Iþýk Sigorta, a new concept in
modern Islamic finance?
. Mobilization of the young generation by Gülen's ideals
. Gülen's views on women rights
. Gülen's view on roles and rights of the family members
. Gülen's view on inheritance, equality and divorce rights of Muslim women
The authors should submit an abstract (approximately 250 words) and
biography (approximately 150 words) at the conference website by July
15, 2009. The editorial committee will review the abstracts and respond
by July 31, 2009. The selected authors should then submit papers of
minimum 3000 and maximum 6000 words to the Editorial Board by September
20, 2009. Electronic submission via the conference web page is
preferred. Authors who choose to submit hard copies are responsible for
the timely delivery of their submissions by the same deadlines. The
editorial board will evaluate and ask the authors to revise the papers
(if needed) and resubmit camera ready copies by November 1, 2009. The
conference organizers reserve the right to remove from the proposed
program papers not received by the published deadlines or that fail to
respond to the comments of the editorial board. The accepted papers will
be published at the conference webpage and as conference proceedings.
The coverage of the conference will be publicized on the conference web
page: www.gulenconference.net.
Travel and accommodation expenses of the invited presenters including
airport pickups, meals, and organized sightseeing trips will be met by
the organizing committee. Please inquire for scholarships for
non-presenting participation.
We look forward to your participation. Please do not hesitate to contact
the Editorial Board at coordinator@gulenconference.net
.
Attachments: Conference flyer and call for papers
Conference in Los Angeles, CA
July 15 - deadline for paper submission
Invitation to a conference on "East and West Encounters: The Gulen
Movement"
www.gulenconference.net
Sponsors:
Office of Religious Life at the University of Southern California,
Department of Theological Studies at Loyola Marymount University,
Santa Monica College International Education Center
Pacifica Institute
Editorial Board:
Dean Varun Soni - University of Southern California
Prof. Juan Campo - UC Santa Barbara
Prof. Reza Aslan - UC Riverside
Prof. Jill Carroll - Rice University
Prof. Reuven Firestone - Hebrew Union College
Prof. Amir Hussain - Loyola Marymount University
Prof. Daniel Skubik - California Baptist University
Prof. Jon Paulien - Loma Linda University
Prof. John Olsen - University of Arizona
Prof. Richard Penaskovic - Auburn University
Prof. Thomas Burns - University of Oklahoma
Prof. Alan Godlas - University of Georgia
Dear Dr. X,
We are pleased to announce the International Conference on East and West
Encounters: The Gülen Movement, to be held December 4 to 6, 2009 in Los
Angeles, California, USA. This conference follows a series of very
successful conferences on the Gülen movement that are held at Georgetown
University (2008), House of Lords & London School of Economics (2007),
University of Oklahoma (2006) and Rice University (2005).
During the past several years, over 300 academics like yourself around
the world studied and presented the impact of Gülen movement over
religious, cultural, social spheres of the world. The growing interest
in this new exciting field led us to focus attention on this emerging
research area and thus, we are convening the International Conference on
"East and West Encounters: The Gülen Movement", to be held December 4-6,
2009 at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California,
USA. The abstract deadline for presentations is July 15, 2009.
Topics include:
. Impact of Gülen movement in the encounter between East and West
. Democracy and dialogue: Gülen's contributions
. Gülen inspired educational institutions
. Structure, development and finance in the Gülen movement
. Women and gender roles in the Gülen movement
. Humanistic vision of Gülen
. Gülen's contributions to Islamic theology
. Gülen's impact on the youth
/The Editorial Board is especially interested to the contributions
regarding the following topics: /
. Contributions of the Gülen movement to the dialogue between East and West
. Gülen's view of the challenges facing Muslim citizens in the western
democracies
. Gülen's view on Zimmi's: status of non-Muslims in the Muslim world
. Violence in the name of God: Gülen's fight with violence
. Gülen's view of the clash of civilizations
. Gülen's view on Islamic theocracies
. Gülen's perspective on Muslim and non-Muslim thinkers and philosophers
. Gülen's understanding of humanism
. Social sciences and arts in Gülen inspired schools
. The impact of the Environment and Energy Olympiads by Gülen inspired
schools and organizations
. Educational transformation of African youth by Gülen inspired schools
. Character education in Gülen inspired schools
. Recruitment and fundraising in the Gülen movement
. Gülen's role in the movement
. Post-Gülen survival of the Gülen Movement
. Advantages and disadvantages of the lack of central coordination in
the Gülen movement
. Is a Gülen inspired insurance company, Iþýk Sigorta, a new concept in
modern Islamic finance?
. Mobilization of the young generation by Gülen's ideals
. Gülen's views on women rights
. Gülen's view on roles and rights of the family members
. Gülen's view on inheritance, equality and divorce rights of Muslim women
The authors should submit an abstract (approximately 250 words) and
biography (approximately 150 words) at the conference website by July
15, 2009. The editorial committee will review the abstracts and respond
by July 31, 2009. The selected authors should then submit papers of
minimum 3000 and maximum 6000 words to the Editorial Board by September
20, 2009. Electronic submission via the conference web page is
preferred. Authors who choose to submit hard copies are responsible for
the timely delivery of their submissions by the same deadlines. The
editorial board will evaluate and ask the authors to revise the papers
(if needed) and resubmit camera ready copies by November 1, 2009. The
conference organizers reserve the right to remove from the proposed
program papers not received by the published deadlines or that fail to
respond to the comments of the editorial board. The accepted papers will
be published at the conference webpage and as conference proceedings.
The coverage of the conference will be publicized on the conference web
page: www.gulenconference.net
Travel and accommodation expenses of the invited presenters including
airport pickups, meals, and organized sightseeing trips will be met by
the organizing committee. Please inquire for scholarships for
non-presenting participation.
We look forward to your participation. Please do not hesitate to contact
the Editorial Board at coordinator@gulenconference.net
Attachments: Conference flyer and call for papers
Monday, June 8, 2009
Papers: Jihad in 21st Century
CALL FOR PUBLICATION: Jihad in the 21st Century
Book edited by Ahmed Al-Dawoody (University of Birmingham/Al-Azhar University) & Anicée Van Engeland (Law Faculty, McGill University).
We would like to edit a book on the issue of the contemporary theories and practices of the Islamic tradition of jihad. The purpose is to gather a group of expertise from both the Muslim and Western Worlds who will approach this issue from various disciplines Approaches to jihad should be innovative. The aim is to discuss the issue of jihad and its relevance to the contemporary issues of: war – both domestic and international – peace, international law, international criminal law, international humanitarian law norms, domestic and international forms of terrorism. These discussions intend to explain the Islamic position on (1) the different form of the use of force in the post United Nations era by both state and non-state actors; (2) domestic and international acts of terrorism; and the international community position. Contributions can be made in any field (law, politics, social sciences, humanities and others) on the following non-exhaustive list:
History of Jihad
Jihad in the Quran
Jihad in the Modern World
Jihad and International Law (self-defense for example)
Jihad and Universal Human Rights
Islam and law of armed conflicts
Ethics
The Politics of Jihad
Fundamentalism
Terrorism Any other topic not included in this list is welcomePlease send an abstract (maximum 500 words) with title of the proposed chapter, affiliation and contact information as well as a resume/CV by July 1st, 2009 toAnicée Van Engeland anicee.vanengeland@mcgill.ca <mailto:anicee.vanengeland@mcgill.ca> & Ahmed Mohsen Al-Dawoody: adawoody@hotmail.com <mailto:adawoody@hotmail.com>
Anicee Maasoume Van Engeland, Ms" <anicee.vanengeland@mcgill.ca>
Book edited by Ahmed Al-Dawoody (University of Birmingham/Al-Azhar University) & Anicée Van Engeland (Law Faculty, McGill University).
We would like to edit a book on the issue of the contemporary theories and practices of the Islamic tradition of jihad. The purpose is to gather a group of expertise from both the Muslim and Western Worlds who will approach this issue from various disciplines Approaches to jihad should be innovative. The aim is to discuss the issue of jihad and its relevance to the contemporary issues of: war – both domestic and international – peace, international law, international criminal law, international humanitarian law norms, domestic and international forms of terrorism. These discussions intend to explain the Islamic position on (1) the different form of the use of force in the post United Nations era by both state and non-state actors; (2) domestic and international acts of terrorism; and the international community position. Contributions can be made in any field (law, politics, social sciences, humanities and others) on the following non-exhaustive list:
History of Jihad
Jihad in the Quran
Jihad in the Modern World
Jihad and International Law (self-defense for example)
Jihad and Universal Human Rights
Islam and law of armed conflicts
Ethics
The Politics of Jihad
Fundamentalism
Terrorism Any other topic not included in this list is welcomePlease send an abstract (maximum 500 words) with title of the proposed chapter, affiliation and contact information as well as a resume/CV by July 1st, 2009 toAnicée Van Engeland anicee.vanengeland@mcgill.ca <mailto:anicee.vanengeland@mcgill.ca> & Ahmed Mohsen Al-Dawoody: adawoody@hotmail.com <mailto:adawoody@hotmail.com>
Anicee Maasoume Van Engeland, Ms" <anicee.vanengeland@mcgill.ca>
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