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SUMMARY:UM Frankel Center Event - Amina Boukail
DESCRIPTION:Jews of Algeria in Light of Modern Studies: Major Trends and New Horizons\nAmina Boukail\, University of Jijel-Algeria\n  \n \nRegister for this virtual event here: https://myumi.ch/RWq4G \nIn this talk\, Amina Boukail outlines the development of contemporary scholarship on Algerian Jews. In doing so\, she offers a critical examination of contemporary research on Algerian Jews in several languages (Arabic\, French\, Hebrew\, English\, and Spanish) in order to demonstrate how scholarship on the history of Algerian Jews has been impact by and has developed in relation to certain historical processes (French colonialism\, postcolonial French-Algerian relations\, the establishment of the State of Israel\, and the Palestinian cause). \nAmina Boukail addresses a number of questions: What are the trends in recent studies on the topic of Jews of Algeria? How do other factors impact the writing of Algerian Jewish history? What are some new interdisciplinary avenues of exploration on this topic? Are there sufficient studies compared to the studies that deal with the Jews of Tunisia or Morocco? What topics still remain taboo when it comes to the history of Jews in Algeria? \nHer review of the principal currents in the study of Algerian Jews is divided into two sections: First\, the study of Jews in Algeria in France\, the United States\, and Israel; second\, the study of Jews in Algeria in Algerian universities. \nAmina Boukail is an Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature in the Department of Arabic Language and Literature at the University of Jijel in Algeria. She received her Doctorate in Comparative Literature from the University of Annaba in 2016. Her current research interests include: Arabic Medieval literature; Cultural Contacts in Medieval Iberia; Cultural Minorities in the Arab world; Hebrew Cultures in North Africa; Sephardic Literature and Judeo-Arabic Heritage in Algeria; Muslim-Jewish relations in Algeria; Colonialism and Literature.
URL:https://www.jewishannarbor.org/event/um-frankel-center-event-amina-boukail/
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SUMMARY:Frankel Center Religion and Critical Theory: Muhammad Iqbal and Walter Benjamin
DESCRIPTION:Asad Dandia\n \nIn what ways can modern religious traditions come into constructive dialogue with critical theory? This Frankel Center lecture in collaboration with the Jewish-Muslim Research Network will seek to explore that question by looking at the concepts of time\, history\, and human agency in the thought of two 20th century thinkers\, one Muslim and one Jewish: Muhammad Iqbal and Walter Benjamin. Instead of focusing on questions of “compatibility\,” it will instead look to the generative ways in which creative (re)-interpretations of Muslim and Jewish themes and motifs can offer more capacious avenues for engaging religious traditions with critical theory in the pursuit of a better world. \nAdvanced registration is required: https://myumi.ch/Ek8AM \nAsad Dandia is a student\, teacher\, and organizer with an abiding interest in religious thought\, critical theory\, and radical politics. He is currently Community Program Coordinator at the Council on American-Islamic Relations\, New York (CAIR-NY)\, an urban studies student at CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies (SLU)\, and teaches at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research (BISR). He draws from his experience both as an academic and a community organizer to connect theory with praxis on a range of subjects. He graduated Columbia University with an MA in Islamic Studies with a thesis entitled\, “Rethinking Islamic Studies: Muhammad Iqbal’s Philosophy as Decolonial Critique.”
URL:https://www.jewishannarbor.org/event/religion-and-critical-theory-muhammad-iqbal-and-walter-benjamin/
LOCATION:Online
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SUMMARY:UM Frankel Center Event - Queer Jews and Muslims: A Roundtable on Race\, Religion\, Gender and Sexuality
DESCRIPTION:Katrina Daly Thompson\, University of Wisconsin – Madison\nRobert Phillips\, Ball State University\nEdwige Crucifix\, Bryn Mawr College\nShanon Shah\, King’s College London\nWith Adi Saleem Bharat\, University of Michigan \n JMRN \nRegister at: https://myumi.ch/qgDEy \n  \nThis roundtable brings together scholars from a range of disciplinary backgrounds in the humanities and social sciences to reflect on historical and contemporary representations and experiences of queer Jews and Muslims in a wide range of geographies. By placing the question of gender and sexuality at the heart—and not merely as a subsection—of (ethno-)religious identities and spiritualties\, the speakers queer normative understandings of Jewishness/Judaism and Muslimness/Islam in order to broaden the horizon of Jewish and Muslim coexistence and\, perhaps more importantly\, co-resistance. \nKatrina Daly Thompson (she/they) is Professor of African Cultural Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison\, where she is also the Director of the Program in African Languages\, and a core faculty member in Second Language Acquisition. She holds additional affiliations in Anthropology\, Gender & Women’s Studies\, Religious Studies\, Folklore\, and the Middle East Studies Program. Her research uses critical ethnography and critical discourse analysis to examine African and Muslim discourse\, with specific projects in Zimbabwe\, Tanzania\, North America\, and online. Her third monograph\, Misfits\, Rebels\, and Queers: An Ethnography of Muslims on the Margins\, is under contract with NYU Press. \nRobert Phillips is an Associate Professor of Anthropology and Associate Director of the Jewish Studies Program at Ball State University. He lectures on ethnographic methods and the anthropology of religion and technology with much of his empirical research conducted in India and Singapore. Most recently\, Phillips has published Virtual Activism: Sexuality\, the Internet\, and a Social Movement in Singapore (University of Toronto Press\, 2020). Currently\, Phillips is looking at how queer and Jewish individuals are embracing alternative models in the healing of individual and collective trauma. \nDr. Edwige Crucifix is a scholar of Modern and Contemporary Francophone literature\, specializing in gender studies and postcolonial theory. Her current book project explores mechanisms of identity construction in colonial society in the works of French and North African women. Her research and teaching stems from an interdisciplinary interest in modes of cultural resistance\, explored in previous publications dedicated to modernist aesthetics\, nineteenth-century bourgeois taste\, and inter-war Jewish identity. \nDr. Shanon Shah conducts research on minority religions and alternative spiritualities at the Information Network Focus on Religious Movements (Inform)\, based at King’s College London\, and is Tutor in Interfaith Relations at the University of London’s Divinity programme. He is also the Director of Faith for the Climate\, a faith-inspired network of climate justice activists\, and an editor at Critical Muslim\, the flagship quarterly publication of the Muslim Institute (a London-based educational fellowship). \nAdi Saleem Bharat is an LSA Collegiate Fellow and\, from Fall 2022\, an assistant professor in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan. He is also an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Manchester’s Center for Jewish Studies. His research examines the intersection of race\, religion\, gender\, and sexuality in contemporary France\, with a focus on Jews and Muslims. He is currently working on a manuscript tentatively titled Beyond Jewish-Muslim Relations\, which examines and challenges the construction of a polarized\, oppositional category of “Jewish-Muslim relations” in media and political discourse in France.
URL:https://www.jewishannarbor.org/event/um-frankel-center-event-queer-jews-and-muslims-a-roundtable-on-race-religion-gender-and-sexuality/
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