TEACHING ISLAM IN THE POST-9/11 UNIVERSITY

The UCR Department of Women's Studies and the Institute for the Study of Immigrant Religions (ISIR) presents

 

A Roundtable Discussion among Scholar-Teachers of Islamic Studies

 

This roundtable discussion will explore issues of Islam, religion, and race in post-9/11 U.S. universities and institutions of higher learning. Scholar-teachers of Islam will examine the racialized politics of civic space in post-9/11 classrooms.

 

 

- Zayn Kassam, Ph.D. (Pomona College, John Knox McLean Professor of Religious Studies)

- Aysha Hidayatullah, Ph.D. (University of San Francisco, Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies)

- Martin Nguyen, Ph.D. (Fairfield University, Assistant Professor of Islamic Religious Traditions)

 

- Sherine Hafez, Ph.D. (Associate Professor, Women’s Studies and MEIS)

- Muhamad Ali, Ph.D. (Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies, Religious Studies, SEATRiP, MEIS)

 

Facilitated by Tammy C. Ho, Ph.D. (Assistant Professor, Women's Studies)

 

Seating is limited. RSVP to ucrwmst.rsvp@gmail.com.

 

Interested educators, faculty, and graduate students who would like to join further discussion with the visiting scholars around issues of pedagogy, email ucrwmst.rsvp@gmail.com.

 

Free and open to the public. Campus Parking $ 6 per day.

 

This event is generously co-sponsored by the Viral Ports, Virtual Currents: A 2012-13 Andrew W. Mellon Workshop in the Humanities, SEATRiP, and the Departments of Ethnic Studies and Religious Studies. The ISIR is sponsored by Mellon through the Center for Ideas and Society.