Islam, Gender Relations, and Women’s Agency Workshop – India contributions needed November 19, 2015
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A two-day international workshop exploring Islam, gender relations and women’s agency in terms of India–Indonesia connections and comparisons
17–18th December, 2015 (9am-5pm)
Room 1.04, HC Coombs Extension (Building 9), Australian National University
This workshop will investigate connections, comparisons and contrasts between Muslim cultures in India and Indonesia, with a particular focus on gender relations, family and personal law. Keynote speakers will be Professor Emerita Pnina Werbner (Keele University, UK), Flavia Agnes (MAJLIS, India), and Nursyahbani Katjasungkana (LBH-APIK, Indonesia).
Papers will explore themes such as:
- Gender and social/cultural identity of Muslim women
- Popular culture/media treatments of Muslim women and personal law
- Generational differences and intergenerational transformations
- Marriage practices: marriage laws; shariah and custom; polygamy
- Sexuality and reproduction
- Modes of divorce and women’s agency
- Changing Islamic everyday normative practice and gender relations
- Modes and practices of social and ritual seclusion of women
- Roles of women in Islamic calendrical rituals and life-cycle rituals
- Islamic women as religious and secular leaders, scholars and practitioners
This is a renewed call for papers, seeking papers from scholars whose focus is on India, or cross-regional connections.
Please send abstracts to Prof. Kathryn Robinson (ANU) and Dr Zazie Bowen (ANU) as soon as possible and no later than 4th December, 2015. Contact details available from Registration page.
There is no registration fee for this workshop, but we would like you to register for catering numbers. For further information and to register, please click here
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