CENTRE FOR MIDDLE EASTERN
AND ISLAMIC STUDIES
University of Bergen
SEMINARS AT THE CENTRE
During
2006 the Centre for Middle East and Islamic studies organized a series
of seminars dealing with the Middle East and Islam.
AUTUMN 2006
SEMINAR ON SHARIA IN THE MODERN WORLD
Léon Buskens (Leiden Universitet)
Title: Islamic law and society in Morocco: The Genesis of a Modern
Legal System
Date: Friday December 8th
Time: 14:15 - 16:00
Venue: Seminar room, SMI
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Robert Gleave (University of Exeter)
Title: Law and authority in modern Shi'ism: The case of Iran and Iraq
today
Date: Thursday November 2nd
Time: 14:15 - 16:00
Venue: Seminar room, SMI
This lecture is the first in a series of lectures/seminars on "The
Sharia in the Modern World" held at the Centre.
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OTHER SEMINARS
Bethany Walker (Grand Valley State University, Michigan)
Title: Financial Collapse and the Medieval Islamic State:Challenges
of Sources and Methods
Date: November 15th
Time: 12:15 - 14:00
Venue: The seminar room, SMI, 5th floor Nygårdsgaten5.
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Mark Sedgwick (American University of Cairo)
Title: From Paris to Cairo to Tehran: Sufism and Traditionalism
Date: October 5th 2006
Time: 14:15 - 16:00
Venue: The seminar room, SMI, 5th floor Nygårdsgaten5.
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SEMINAR ON HUMAN RIGHTS AND ISLAM
Henriette Sindig Aasen (Faculty of Law, University
of Bergen)
Title: "Rights of Muslim women and the relationship between international
human rights and Islamic law"
Date: November 9th 2006
Time: 12:15 - 14:00
Venue: Seminar Room, SMI, 5th floor Nygårdsgaten 5.
Shirin Ebadi (2001 Rafto Prize Laureate and 2003 Nobel
Peace Prize Laureate)
Title: Is
there any hope for a future respect of democracy and human rights in
Iran?
Date: November 2nd 2006
Time: 19:15
Venue: Aud. 1, Faculty of Law
Tore Lindholm (Centre for Human Rights, University
of Oslo)
Title: Human Rights and Islam
Date: October 12th 2006
Time: 12:15 - 14:00
Venue: Seminar Room, SMI, 5th floor Nygårdsgaten 5.
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Spring 2006:
MEETING WITH PALESTINIAN MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT FROM HAMAS
Meeting with Yahya Al-Abadsa
Date: June 15th 2006
Time: 10:15 - 12:00
Venue: Room 8045, 8th floor, Stein Rokkans Hus
SECULAR AND CIVIC DEMOCRACY IN TURKEY
Prof. Ilkay Sunar (Bascesehir University, Turkey)
Date: May 22nd 2006
THE ARMENIAN MINORITY IN LATE OTTOMAN/EARLY POSTWAR HISTORY
Prof. Hilmar Kaiser: " World War, Germany and the Armenian Genocide"
Matthias Bjørnlund: "When the canon talks, the diplomats must be silent:
A Danish Diplomat during the Armenian Genocide"
Inger Marie Okkenhaug: "Armenia has become my second home country: A
Norwegian missionary and the Armenian people 1905-1934"
Wednesday May 10th, 12.15-16.00
Dr. Anne Sofie Roald, IMER, University of Malmo:
“Collective vs. Individual rights: The case of Muslim Women in
Sweden”
Friday Februrary 17, 12.15-14.00
Sindre Bangstad, International Institute for the Study of Islam in
the Modern World, Leiden:
“Multiculturalism - South African Style:Transformations of Muslim
Personal Law and Implications for Muslim Women in Polygynous Marriages
in Cape Town, South Africa”
Thursday February 23, 12.15-14.00
Dr. Jeremy Prestholdt, NorthWestern University, Chicago:
“Peripheral Visions: East African Consumerism in a
Global Age”
Thursday March 16, 12.15-14.00
Yadullah Shahibzadeh, Dept. of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages,
University of Oslo: Tentative title: The political ideas behind the
Islamic leadership in Iran.
Thursday 23 March 12.15 – 14.00.
7th International Sudan Studies Conference 2006
6th - 8th April 2006, University of Bergen, Norway
"Fifty Years After Independence: Sudan's Quest for Peace, Stability
and Identity"
Since the late 1960s, scholars at the University of Bergen have conducted research in the Sudan, and benefited greatly from academic exchange and cooperation with colleagues from the Sudan.
In light of this history, the University of Bergen is honoured to host the 7th International Sudan Studies Conference, 6-8 April 2006. The International Conference is held every third year, and will gather Sudanese academics and researchers from around the world who are working on the Sudan. The conference will be organized by the Sudan Studies Association, SSA and the Sudan Studies Society of the United Kingdom, SSSUK in cooperation with the Centre for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies. See the Conference website, as well as the section below for further details about the conference.
