CONCEPTIONS OF ISLAM - A PH.D COURSE

August 27th - 30th 2007

PROGRAMME

Workshop abstracts are available here >>

MONDAY AUGUST 27th 2007

09:30 – 10:00 WELCOME

10:00 – 11:30 ZIBA MIR-HOSSEINI: Islamic Feminism: The Unwanted Child of Political Islam
Related articles: "Islam and Gender Justice" and "Muslim Women's Quest for Equality: Between Islamic Law and Feminism"

11:30 – 11:45 COFFEE BREAK

11:45 – 13:15 FILM SCREENING: "DIVORCE IRANIAN STYLE" + discussion

More information:
Poster
The article "NEGOTIATING THE POLITICS OF GENDER IN IRAN: An Ethnography of a Documentary" by Ziba Mir-Hosseini in The New Iranian Cinema, edited by R. Tapper (London: IB Tauris, 2002)

13:15 – 14:15 LUNCH

14:15 - 15:45 WORKSHOP I

Farhat Taj Andersen (University of Oslo): Protection of Women’s
Civil Rights through Culture-cum-Faith based Family-Dispute
Resolution Sites

Eirik Hovden (University of Bergen): Local Common Resource
Management sanctioned by Islamic Legitimacy

Camilla Nereid (NTNU): Conceptions of Islam

15:45 - 16:00 COFFEE BREAK

16:00 - 18:00 FILM SCREENING "RUNAWAY"+ discussion

More information:
The article "Iran’s Runaway Girls Challenge the Old Rules" by Ziba Mir-Hosseini
A short version of this article appeared in ISIM Newsletter 9, Jan 2002, p.23.


TUESDAY AUGUST 28th 2007

09:30 – 11:00 SARAH BRACKE: Re-articulations of Emancipation. Dutch Muslim women and Dutch feminism
Abstract

11:00 – 11:30 COFFEE BREAK

11:30 – 13:00 NACIRA GUENIF-SOUILAMAS: The plate tectonics: an overview
from France

13:00 – 14:00 LUNCH

14:00 – 15:30 WORKSHOP II

Katja Jansen Fredriksen (University of Bergen): Sharia in
Norwegian courts?

Jacob Høigilt (University of Oslo): Rhetoric and Ideology in the
Islamic field in Egypt

Ehab Galal (University of Copenhagen): Becoming Muslim – TV-
preachers and their rhetorical constructions of Islam at Arab
satellite-television

15:30 – 15:45 COFFEE BREAK

15:45 – 17:15 WORKSHOP III

Rickard Lagervall (Lund University): Conceptions of gender and
religion in Moroccan state discourses

Liv Tønnessen (Chr. Michelsen Institute): Equal before Allah and
Unequal before Man? Hassan al-Turabi and the Reconstruction of
Women’s Rights in Islam

Maija Elo (University of Helsinki): Study of Religiosity of Upper-
Middle Class in Contemporary Cairo – Questions and Challenges



WEDNESDAY AUGUST 29th 2007

09:30 – 11:00 CHRISTINE JACOBSEN: Feminist Contentions: Challenges in Theorizing Muslim Women’s Religious Identities and Practices
Abstract

11:00 – 11:30 COFFEE BREAK

11:30 – 13:00 MALEIHA MALIK: Complex Equality: Muslim Women and the ‘headscarf’
Abstract

13:00 – 14:00 LUNCH

14:00 – 15:30 WORKSHOP IV

Sindre Bangstad (Chr. Michelsen Institute): Islamic Feminisms as Theory and in Practice

Veronika Honkasalo (University of Helsinki): Multicultural
Gendersensitive Youth Work - a necessity for Nordic equality
education

Anne Hege Grung (University of Oslo): Interreligious dialogue and gender: dialogue and gender justice

15:30 – 15:45 COFFEE BREAK

15:45 – 17:15 WORKSHOP V

Synnøve Bendixsen (Humbolt University & Ecole des Hautes
Etudes en Sciences Sociales): Young Female Muslims Contesting
the Correlation between Ethnicity and Religion

Tomas Dolezal (University of Bergen): Questioning collective
identity model within international context: Shared identity of all
Muslims?

Sarvendra Tharmalingam (University of Oslo): The Role of Islam
in home making of Somalis in Norway

THURSDAY AUGUST 30th 2007

09:30 – 11:00 SCHIRIN AMIR-MOAZAMI: Secular Muslim Feminists in France and Germany: Agency or Cooption?
Abstract

11:00 – 11:30 COFFEE BREAK

11:30 – 13:00 SALWA ISMAIL: Conceptual and Methodological Issues in the Study of Muslim Societies
Abstract

13:00 – 14:00 LUNCH

14:00 – 15:30 WORKSHOP VI

Andreja Mesaric (University of Ljubljana): Muslim dress in
Sarajevo

Behnoosh Payvar (Lund University): Youth, Traditions and
Challenges



VENUE:
Faculty of Psychology, Bjørn Christiansens hus, aud. 118
Address: Chrities gate 12.

Workshops for Ph.D students will be held at seminar room 151, Bjørn Christiansens hus.

Organisers:
- Ph. D. School for Middle Eastern Studies/Centre for Middle Eastern Studies, University of Bergen
- Centre for Women’s and Gender Research (SKOK), University of Bergen
- IMER, International Migration & Ethnic Relations Research Unit, University of Bergen
- Ph. D. Program for Asian and African Studies/Dept of Cultural Studies and Oriental Languages, University of Oslo
- Dept of Archaeology and Religious Studies, Norwegian Technical University in Trondheim