From the Adriatic to the Sulu Sea:
Islam and Identity in Southeast Europe and Southeast Asia
February 9 - 11, 2012
Franke Institute for the Humanities
University of Chicago
This conference is the third in a series comparing two edges of the Islamic world. The choice of Southeast Europe and Southeast Asia for the foci of these conferences is motivated by the fact that in each of these regions at opposite ends of the traditional Islamic world, Islam is an important historical and social factor that continues to interact with both previous and subsequent cultural traditions and political realities in ways that are informatively comparable. This conference understands "identities" in the broadest possible manner; and the papers will examine phenomena from music and literacy to politics and spirituality and beyond.
This conference will begin Thursday, February 9 at 5 PM with the keynote address by Distinguished Professor Datuk Shamsul Amri Baharrudin from the Malayasian National University and will be held at the International House Assembly Hall, 1414 E. 59th St., Chicago. All other conference events will be held at the Franke Institute for the Humanities, 1100 E. 57th St. on the campus of the University of Chicago.
There is no fee or registration to attend the conference. There will be a teacher workshop on Saturday morning, February 11. CPDUs will be available for qualified K-12 Illinois teachers. There is no cost for participating in this workshop, but teachers must register by contacting immertreu@uchicago.edu.
This conference is the third in a series of joint conferences examining two edges of the Islamic world, sponsored by the Center for East European and Russian/Eurasian Studies, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, and the Franke Institute for the Humanities at the University of Chicago and the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at Northern Illinois University. All three centers are U.S. Department of Education Title VI-funded National Resource Centers.