[eccr] Islam, The Public and Private Spheres

>Islam, The Public and Private Spheres
>5 to 7 December 2002, New York, United States
>
>The distinction between public and private is one of
>society's most crucial and contested issues. Islam, the
>world's most populous religion, is also, at least in the
>West, perhaps the most misunderstood. This conference
>explores the diversity of Islamic societies worldwide,
>probing their varying conceptions of privacy as a way of
>illuminating how these societies resemble and differ from
>each other and our own, at a time when this
>understanding is of critical importance.
>
>Conference Program:
>THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5th
>Session 1: Keynote Address     6:00 - 7:30 p.m
>Understandings of public and private in Islamic societies.
>Speaker: Abdolkarim Soroush
>
>FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6th
>Session 2:  Islamic Law:  Boundaries and Rights:
>Case Studies     9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
>How are questions of boundaries and rights negotiated in
>states governed by Sharia?  How do these negotiations
>compare with those in predominantly Muslim states
>governed by civil law, or possibly Islamic communities in
>the diaspora?
>Speakers: Baber Johansen, Brinkley Messick, Roy
>Mottahedeh, Frank Vogel. Moderator: Talal Asad
>
>Session 3: Individual, Family, Community and State:
>Case Studies     1:30 - 4:30 p.m.
>What is the concept of the individual?  How are
>distinctions between public and private articulated within
>and across the boundaries of individual, family,
>community and state?
>Speakers: Juan Cole, Nilufer Gole, Mehrangiz Kar, Saba
>Mahmood. Moderator: Leila Ahmed
>
>Session 4:  Media and Information: Case Studies
>6:00 - 8:30 p.m.
>Who determines what and how information is made
>public?  What is the role of the media in civil society and
>its impact on privacy?
>Speakers: Geneive Abdo, Jon Anderson, Hafez al-Mirazi,
>Hassan Mneimneh. Moderator: TBA
>
>SATURDAY, DECEMBER 7th
>Session 5: Representations of Privacy in Literature and
>Film: Case Studies 10:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
>How are the concepts of privacy and the private sphere
>interpreted and represented in literature and film?
>Speakers: Hamid Dabashi, Assia Djebar, Azar Nafisi,
>Orhan Pamuk. Moderator: Farhad Kazemi
>
>Session 6: Film Screening and Discussion   2:00p.m. -
>4:00 p.m. WAITING (Iran, 1975), A film by Amir Naderi.
>The film will be followed by a discussion between Amir
>Naderi and Hamid Dabashi focusing on how privacy is
>represented in this and other of his films.
>Moderator: Hamid Dabashi
>
>Admission to this conference is $30 or $7 for each
>individual session. Full-time students with a valid ID are
>admitted free.
>
>For more information or to register for the conference
>please see our website at  http://www.socres.org
>
>E-mail enquiries: (socres /at/ newschool.edu)
>
>Organized by: Social Research Journal

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