Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies Postgraduate Study Day
“Allah n’est pas obligé: The Location of Islam in Francophone Cultures”
University of Stirling, 20 June 2013
Pathfoot Building (Room E26)
PROGRAMME
10 – 10:30 Registration, Coffee & Welcome
10:30 – 12 Panel 1: Screening Islam
Chair: David Murphy
Dr. Stefanie Van De Peer (University of St Andrews)
Même Pas Mal! Nadia El Fani’s Double Consciousness
Rym Ouartsi (King’s College London)
Marock: Debating Religious Values, Obscuring Social Class Differences
Jamal Bahmad (University of Stirling)
Globalisation and Radical Islam in Laila Marrakchi’s Marock (2005)
12 – 12:15 Coffee Break
12:15 – 13:15 Panel 2: Islam in the Diaspora
Chair: Mauro Di Lullo
Amina Easat-Daas (Aston University)
Muslim Women’s Political Participation in France and Belgium
Dr. Chloé A. Gill-Khan (University of South Australia)
French Republican Secularism and Islam in North African Diasporic Cultural Production
13:15 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:30 Panel 3: Islam: Historical and Literary Representations
Chair: Chloé A. Gill-Khan
Karima Lahrach-Maynard (New York University)
The Representations of Islam in France during the Crusades of Saint Louis and the Egypt Expedition of Bonaparte
Kirsty Bennett (University of Sussex)
Identity Crux: Isabelle Eberhardt, Islam and the Ottoman Empire
Mauro Di Lullo (University of Stirling)
Jean Genet and Political Islam
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 – 16:30 Publishing Workshop
Professor David Murphy (University of Stirling)
16:45 – 17:45 Keynote:
Chair: Jamal Bahmad
Dr. Philip Dine (National University of Ireland, Galway)
Subjectivity, temporality, territoriality: locating Islam from the French colonial past to the Francophone postcolonial present
17:45 – 18:00 Close
There will be a small charge of £10 for participation in the Study Day. This fee will cover catering costs. Please contact Jamal Bahmad at the following email address for a registration form: jamal.bahmad@stir.ac.uk.
For a downloadable version of the programme, click here.
To download the registration form, click here.
To view the call for papers, click here.
