Workshop on “Rethinking Interdisciplinary Approaches to Shi‘a Transnationalism/Trans-Regionalism”
International workshop at the Department of Political Science
Oplysninger om arrangementet
Tidspunkt
Sted
1330-124
Arrangør
In cooperation with Mara Leichtman (Michigan State U/AUFF Fellow at IFSK) and Thomas Brandt Fibiger (Arab-Islamic Studies, Aarhus U) and as part of the “TOI: Bringing in the Other Islamists” IRFD research project (www.ps.au.dk/toi), Morten Valbjørn is organizing an international workshop on “Rethinking Interdisciplinary Approaches to Shi‘a Transnationalism and Trans-Regionalism”.
The aim of the workshop is to examine the nexus among Shi’a transnationalism, trans-regionalism, and interdisciplinarity. Against this background, the workshop will bring together scholars from political science, anthropology, history, and religious studies, who have a shared interest in studying Shi‘a transnationalism, but differ in terms of thematic focus, geographical contexts, time periods, and disciplinary groundings.
10.00-10.30 | Introductory remarks |
1030-12.30 | PANEL I |
| Mara Leichtman (Michigan State University/Aarhus U): From Shi‘a Transnationalism to Trans-Regionalism: Researching Islamic Connections Between the Middle East and Africa |
| Younes Saramifar (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) Committing an Anthropological Sin: Writing Beyond Ethnography Specificity |
| Yafa Shanneik (Lund University) Rethinking Gender Agency in Shi'i Transnationalism: A New Perspective on Empowerment |
| Thomas Brandt Fibiger (Aarhus University) Transnationalism and state relations. The case of Dawoodi Bohras around the Indian Ocean |
1230-1330 | Lunch |
1330-1530 | PANEL II |
| Christopher Bahl (Durham University) (virtual participation on zoom) From a Sunni to a Shi'i court. Changing patronage networks at the sixteenth-century court of Ahmadnagar. |
| Sabrina Mervin (Centre national de la recherche scientifique) (virtual participation on zoom) Dealing with authority and rituals in contemporary Shiism from the 'atabat (Najaf, Karbala) to the fringes (India, Brazil) |
| Oliver Scharbrodt (Lund University) My homeland is Husayn”: Understanding Multilocality in Shi’a Contexts. |
| Morten Valbjørn (Aarhus University) When Transnationalism is not Global: Dynamics of Armed Transnational Shi’a Islamist Groups |
1530-1600 | Coffee break |
1600-1630 | Concluding discussion |