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Seminar "Framing Islam/Muslims" will be held on Tuesday, March 8th.
2016.02.26
| organizers | Institute of Asian Cultures at Sophia University
IAS Center at Sophia University (SIAS)
Center for Islamic Area Studies at Kyoto University (KIAS).
| | date and time | March 8th, 2016 (Tue.)16:00-18:00 | | title | Framing Islam/Muslims | | speaker | Dr. Munir Jiwa
(Associate Professor at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley/ The Founding Director of the Center for Islamic Studies)
| | venue | Sophia University, Yotsuya Campus
Room 2-615a (6th Floor, Bldg. #2, Sophia University
* Access Guide to Yotsuya Campus, Sophia University:
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campus map | | language | English | | admission | If you wish to attend the seminar,
please contact us in advance at the following address:
ias-iac@sophia.ac.jp
| | Abstract of Presenation | In this presentation, I discuss the normative frames through which Islam and Muslims are most often represented in the Euro-American public sphere.
These frames are what I present as the five "media pillars" of Islam, namely: 9/11 as the predominant temporal lens through which we approach Islamic history and theology violence and terrorism Muslim women and veiling, and new discussions on sexual minorities Islam and the West and questions of compatibility and values and finally the Middle East as the geographical/spatial lens through which we view the entire"Muslim world," focusing on politics. This presentation attempts to think through these totalizing frames, looks at how any reframing runs the risk of being unrecognizable or apologetic, and proposes some possibilities beyond these limits.
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