This Conference will still go on as scheduled.
February 15-18, 2007
Convened by Professor Susannah Heschel
Judaism and Islam are religions with long histories of migrations and
conquest, though very different traditions regarding ethnicity and diaspora.
Public attention to the politically-fraught migrations of Muslims to Europe and
the United States, and evaluations of the ultimate disaster of Jewish efforts
at integration into Europe, suggest that a conference on both Jewish and Muslim
experience would be worthwhile. Recently interest has grown on the part of
scholars and journalists in migrations and their impact on Jewish and Muslim
identities, as affected politically, culturally, religiously, and in terms of
gender and sexuality. Both the rise of European anti-Semitism in the nineteenth
and twentieth centuries and the and the post-war rise of tensions over the
Muslim presence in Europe and Turkey's membership in the European Union have
raised questions about the nature of European nationalism and the modernity so
proudly hailed for the past two hundred years. Contrasts between Europe and the
United States have been drawn sharply over the question of Jews, Muslims and
multiculturalism, yet efforts to uphold American society as a pinnacle of
tolerance and as an environment in which difference is extolled and flourishes
are being challenged by the Iraq war and by growing awareness of the economic
and social consequences of globalization. Meanwhile, the shifts in defining
Judaism and Islam as a result of the transnational migrations of the modern era
have rarely been examined in comparative context, and only rarely have
Judeophobia and Islamophobia been studied together. This conference will begin
that comparative effort and intends to foster a discussion that will consider
ways in which methodologies and interpretive frameworks might be shared as well
as jointly called into question by the work of scholars in both Jewish and
Islamic Studies.
This conference is the fourth in a series funded by a grant from the Ford
Foundation to Professor Susannah Heschel as part of an effort to foster closer
relations between scholars in the fields of Islamic Studies and Jewish Studies.
Previous conferences, held at Dartmouth over the course of the past two years,
have addressed topics of "Gendered Intersections: Feminist Scholarship in
Islamic and Judaic Studies," "Orientalism and Fundamentalism in
Jewish and Islamic Critique: A Conference Honoring Sadik al-Azm," and
"Ink and Blood: Textuality and the Human in Judaism, Christianity and
Islam."
This conference will convene scholars from Europe, the Middle East, the
United States, and Canada, with an interest in Islamic and Jewish Studies and
who work in a range of disciplines, including literature, anthropology,
religion, linguistics, history, and political thought.
All sessions are open to the public.
Conference Program (tentative)
Thursday, February 15, 2007
Opening Session: 4 PM-6 PM
Rockefeller 2
Moderator: Veronika Fuechtner, Department of
German Studies, Dartmouth College
- Sander Gilman, Emory University, Can the Experience of
Diaspora Judaism serve as a Model for Islam in Today's Multicultural
Europe?
Moderator: Gene Garthwaite, Department of History, Dartmouth College
- Jamal Malik, University of Erfurt, Germany,
Transnational Migrations of Sufism: Constructions of Muslims Identities in
the West
Friday February 16, 2007
Session 1: 9 AM - 12 noon
Haldeman 125
Moderator: Michael Ermarth, Department of History, Dartmouth College
- Moha Ennaji, Rutgers University, Moroccan Migrants in
Europe: Facts and Identity Crisis
- Tobias Brinkmann, Southampton University, England,
Eastern Jews and Western Jews: The Transitory Spaces of Migration before
and after the "Great War" - Berlin, London and New York
- Kecia Ali, Boston University, Shariah-Mindedness in
North American Islam: Women, Authority, and Authenticity
Session 2: Friday 2 PM - 5 PM
Haldeman 125
Moderator: Ed Miller, Department of History, Dartmouth College
- Till van Rahden, Université de Montréal,
"'Germans of the Jewish Tribe': Visions of Community between
Nationalism and Particularism, 1800 to 1933"
- Matti Bunzl, University of Illinois, Anti-Semitism and
Islamophobia: Hatreds Old and New in Europe
- Mona Abaza, NIAS and American University in Cairo, The
Trafficking with Enlightenment in Egypt
Saturday February 17, 2007
Session 3: 9 AM - 12 noon
Haldeman 125
Moderator: Gene Garthwaite, Department of History, Dartmouth
College
- Leo Spitzer, Columbia University, A Name Given, A Name
Taken: Camouflaging, Resistance, and Diasporic Social Identity
- Fatima Sadiqi, University of Fez and Harvard University,
The Impact of Islamicization on Moroccan Feminisms
- Admiel Kosman, University of Potsdam and Geiger College,
Germany, Do we all believe in the same God? Law versus Religiosity,
Structure versus Heart
Session 4: Saturday 2 PM-5 PM
Haldeman 125
Moderator: Amy Allen, Department of Philosophy, Dartmouth College
- David Powers, Cornell University, "Fathers and
Sons: the Foundation Myths of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
- Naomi Seidman, Graduate Theological Union and University
of California, Berkeley, The Erotics of Tradition in a Post-Secular
Age
- Mary Jean Green, Dartmouth College, People Who Leave
No Trace: Writing Jewish and Muslim Immigrant Memory in France
Co-Sponsors Include: Office of the Provost, The Fannie and Alan Leslie
Center for the Humanities, German Studies Department, The William P. and
Dewilda N. Harris German/Dartmouth Distinguished Visiting Professorship, The
John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding, Jewish Studies
Program
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