[Reader-list] Negotiating and Accommodating Religious Identity in Public Arena: Programme of an international conference on : Comparing Indian and European Experiences with Special Reference to Muslim Minorities

Wed Feb 10 18:53:15 IST 2010

Dear all,

Please find below programme of an international conference on

Negotiating and Accommodating Religious Identity in Public Arena: Comparing
Indian and European Experiences with Special Reference to Muslim Minorities

I shall also present in the conference a paper on "Redefining Ahl-e
Hadis Identity in Contemporary India: Dynamics of Exchange between
Jamia Salafia of Varanasi and Islamic University of Medina"..

Regards,

arshad amanullah

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PROGRAMME OF THE INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR

Negotiating and Accommodating Religious Identity in Public Arena: Comparing
Indian and European Experiences with Special Reference to Muslim Minorities

10-12th February 2010

Centre for West Asian Studies

Jamia Millia Islamia (A Central University), New Delhi

 Venue: Mir Anis Hall, Dayar-Mir-Taqi- Mir

Near Vice Chancellor Office

Jamia Millia Islamia ( A Central University)

 New Delhi

DAY 1

10th February 2010 (Wednesday)

 Venue : Mir Anis Hall, Dayar-Mir-Taqi- Mir,  Near  VC Office, JMI

 09.00 am to 09.30 am - Registration

 09.30 am to 11.00 am - Inaugural Session

 Chair: Prof.  Imtiaz Ahmed

 09.30am to 09.40 am – Welcome and Inaugural Remarks

 Hon’ble  Najeeb Jung , Vice Chancellor, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi

 09: 40 am to 09.50 am – Introduction of Theme

 Prof.  Anwar Alam, Director, Centre for West Asian Studies, Jamia
Millia Islamia - Convenor of the Seminar

 Dr. Konrad Pedziwiatr, Associate Professor, Tischner European
University, Poland - Seminar Consultant

 09.50 am to 10. 30 am:  Key Note Address

 Prof. T.K. Ommen, Professor Emeritus, School of Social Science,
Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

 10.30 am to 11.00 am - Inaugural Address by Chief Guest

 Shri Salman Khursheed, Union Minister for Minority Affairs, Government of India

 High Tea: 11.00 am to 11.30am

 Session II:

 11.30 am to 1.00 pm - State, Modernity and Religion

 Venue : Mir Anis Hall, Dayar-Mir-Taqi- Mir,  Near  VC Office, JMI

 Chair:  Prof. Imtiaz Ahmed

 Michael Dusche, Modernity, Nation-State and Islamic Identity Politics

Hilal Ahmed: Exploring Muslim Modernities: Public Presence of Mosques
in Delhi and London

Markha G. Valenta,  The Urban Divine in Flux: Mumbai and Amsterdam

 Shahul Ameen K.T, Understanding Modernities and Islamic Formation
among Mappila Muslims:the Decline of Kondotti Nerch'

 Lunch: 1.00 pm to 2.00pm

Session III:

2.00 pm to 3.30 pm - Issues of Representation of Religion in Public Sphere

 Venue : Mir Anis Hall, Mir-Taqi- Mir

 Chair: Prof. Nadja-Christina Schneider

Kyriaki Topidi, Religion and the Constitutional Order: De-Constructing
State Neutrality in Germany and Turkey
Anwar Alam, Revisting  Religion and Secularism  Debates in Indian Politics

 Nathan Tabor, All our Crowns are in Museums: Mushairah Poetry and the
Urdu Public Sphere

 Yacob Mahi, Regulation of Monk in Public Life

Tea Break: 3.30 pm to 3.45 pm

 Session IV:

3.45pm to 5.15pm - Political Institutions and Religious Minorities

Venue : Mir Anis Hall, Dayar-Mir-Taqi- Mir,  Near  VC Office, JMI

 Chair: Prof. Zoya Hasan

 Nadja-Christina Schneider, The transnational and local dynamics of a
powerful discourse:

Islamic feminism and Muslim women’s rights activism in India

Jamil Sherif, The religion question in the UK national census of 2001
– landmark campaign for Muslim recognition

 Ziad Fahed, The Religious and National Identities-minorities and
majority issues - A Post War Lebanese Approach

 Tanveer Fazal, Minority Rights and the Nationalist Doctrine: Contest
and Coalescence in the Public Sphere

DAY 2

11th February 2010 (Thursday)

Session V:  Political Process and Negotiation of Minority Religious Identity

9: 00 AM to 10:30 AM:

 Venue: Mir Anis Hall, Dayar-Mir-Taqi- Mir, Near VC Office, JMI

Chair: Prof. Jamal Malik

  Bruce Lawrence, Negotiating Religious Identity on the parameters of
the Indian Ocean

  K.C. Muneer, Kerala Model of Muslim Politics in India

 Tea Break: 10.30 am to 10.45 am

Session VI:

10.45 am to 12.30 noon - Debates on Multiculturalism

Venue: Mir Anis Hall, Dayar-Mir-Taqi- Mir, Near VC Office, JMI

 Chair: Prof. Gurpreet Mahajan

Suresh Kumar, Citizenship and Affirmation of Group Difference: Indian
Experience of Negotiating Religious Identities

Amir Ali, Multiculturalism, Group Rights and Secularism

 Emrah Akbaş, A Critique of Multiculturalism-Case of Social Service in Germany

Shorab Mohammad, European and Indian Models of Multiculturalism and
the Question of Muslim Identity

Session VII:

12.30am to 1.30pm - Islamic Response to Multiculturalism

 Venue : Mir Anis Hall, Dayar-Mir-Taqi- Mir,  Near  VC Office, JMI

Chair: Prof. Akhtural  Wasey

Hussain Qutbuddin,  Analyzing Qur’anic and Hadith Justifications in
Islamic Response to Musliticulturalism

 Moussa Khedimellah, Islam in France

 Omair Anas, Multiculturalism in Indian Islamic Scholarship: A Critical Analysis

Lunch: 1.30pm to 2.30pm

Session VIII: 2.30 pm to 4.00 pm : Naturalisation, Education, and Integration:

 Venue : Mir Anis Hall, Dayar-Mir-Taqi- Mir,  Near  VC Office, JMI

 Chair: Prof. Mohammad Mian

Jamal Malik, Identity Formation and Education of Value: The Process of
the Shaping a New Islam in Germany

Markha G. Valenta, School Jitters: Education into (and Out of)
Pluralism in India and the

 Netherlands

 S. M. Sajid,  Issues and Problems of Religious and Secular Education
among Muslims in India".

 Anne Fornerod, Naturalisation of Muslims in France

Tea Break : 4.00 pm to 4:15 pm

Session IX:

 4:15 pm to 5.30pm - State, Discrimination and Securitization Debates

 Venue : Mir Anis Hall, Dayar-Mir-Taqi- Mir,  Near  VC Office, JMI

Chair: Konrad Pedziwiatr

 Ines Wouters, Rights of Religious Minorities in the Light of European
Convention on Human Rights and National Constitutions

Rinku Lamba, Secularism and the Threat of Neocolonial Governmentality

 Katayoun Alidadi, "Protecting Muslim Minorities in The Work Place?
>From European   Anti-Discrimination toIndian Quota."

 Jyoti Singh & Ajay Singh Rathor, Legal Protection against Discrimination

DAY 3

12th Feb. 2010(Friday)

Session X: 9.30 am to 10.30am : Politics of Muslim Identity I

Venue : Mir Anis Hall, Dayar-Mir-Taqi- Mir,  Near  VC Office, JMI

 Chair: Markha G. Valenta

 Konrad Pedziwiatr, New Muslim Religious Brokers in European Cities
and Politics of Muslim Citizenship

 Razak Khan, Rethinking Muslim Politics: Rehabilitating the Local

 Z. Fareen Parvez,  The Role of Muslim Class Relations in the Politics
of Islam in France and India

10:30 am to 10:45 am: Tea Break

Session XI:

10.45 am to 12.30 am - Politics of Muslim Identity II

Venue : Mir Anis Hall, Dayar-Mir-Taqi- Mir,  Near  VC Office, JMI

 Chair: Arif Mohammad Khan

 Thierry Dicostanzo, Indian Muslim Journalism and the Idea of Pakistan in 1940s

 Rizwan Qaisar, Settled and Unsettled Muslim Identity in Post- Independent India

 Arshad Alam, The Making of a Madrasa: Religion, Caste and Politics in
a North Indian Qasba

 Arshad Amanulllah, Re-defining Ahle Hadis Identity in Contemporary
India: Dynamics of Exchange between Jamia Salafia of Varanasi and
Islamic University of Medina

Lunch and Namaz Break: 12.30 noon to 2.00pm

 Concluding Session: 2:.00 pm to 4: 00 pm

 Venue: Mir Anis Hall, Dayar-Mir-Taqi- Mir,  Near  VC Office, JMI

Chair: Prof. Bruce Lawrence

Valedictory Lecture: Prof. Mushirul Hasan

Observations and Recommendations

  Vote of Thanks: Anwar Alam & Konrad Pedziwiatr