Event Archive
Event Archive
Framing Muslims was inaugurated on September 8th 2007 with a one-day workshop at SOAS, University of London. Over the course of the project a number of events are taking place, including a seminar series pairing scholars, journalists and practitioners working on aspects of the representation of Muslims. Venues alternate between the fund-holding institution, the University of East London, SOAS, and Senate House, University of London, but in due course the project will also travel, visiting venues both nationally and internationally. In the Autumn of 2007, Framing Muslims combined with the Inter-University Postcolonial Seminar series, run by Professor Susheila Nasta of the Open University Postcolonial Research Group, to explore ‘Postcolonial Muslim Cultures’.
In this archive you will find a selection of audio recordings from some of these events, available to download as podcasts. Click on the podcast logo to subscribe. You can listen to these in MP3 format or you can download a free QuickTime Player plugin to be able to hear the podcast in Apple Quicktime format, this format has clicable Chapter breaks.
Workshop Perspectives from Britain and North America
Last Updated on Tuesday, 04 May 2010 22:02
This Workshop was held on Saturday, 5 December 2009 in Birkbeck College, University of London.
The participants included: Hisham Aidi, Nabil Matar, Haideh Moghissi, Kamran Pasha, Sherene Razack, Amena Saiyid, Steven Salaita, Tim Jon Semmerling and Pnina Werbner
Some of the themes they discussed included: Historical perspectives, Production and Reception of images, Representation and Power, and Race, ethnicity and gender
Read more: Workshop Perspectives from Britain and North America
Interview with Kamran Pasha author of "Mother of the Believers"
Last Updated on Tuesday, 04 May 2010 23:45
This interview with author Kamran Pasha was conducted by Amina Yaqin on Friday, 4 December 2009 in SOAS, London; it also features the author giving readings from his novel Mother of the Believers.
About the Novel
Written in beautiful prose and meticulously researched. Mother of the Believers is a compelling work of historical fiction that portrays an empowered Muslim woman who helped user Islam into the world.
Read more: Interview with Kamran Pasha author of "Mother of the Believers"
Interview with Farahad Zama author of "The Many Conditions of Love"
Last Updated on Tuesday, 04 May 2010 23:37
This interview with author Farahad Zama was conducted by Amina Yaqin on Friday, 23rd October 2009 in SOAS, London; it also features the author reading from his novel The Many Conditions of Love.
About the Novel
Can true love triumph in the face of fierce family opposition? Mr Ali's marriage bureau is flourishing but trouble isn't far away once son Rehman begins secretly to woo TV journalist Usha in the small cafes and on the beautiful beaches of South Indian Vizag in an ill-advised romance.
Read more: Interview with Farahad Zama author of "The Many Conditions of Love"
Seminar New Directions
Last Updated on Tuesday, 04 May 2010 23:29
This seminar titled Framing Muslims:New Directions was an afternoon workshop held in collaboration with the Ferguson Centre, Open University on June 25th 2009, it was held at the Open University buildings on the Milton Keynes Campus.
The Speakers included Madeline Clements, Maruta Herding, Peter Morey and Amina Yaquin, the event was hosted by Dennis Walder.
The papers presented covered topics such as the role of mapping in the writing of Kamila Shamsie, the emergence of an Islamic youth culture in Western Europe, Muslim Stereotypes in the mainstream Western media and locating transnational Muslim subjectivies therein.
Workshop Muslims Making Britain
Last Updated on Tuesday, 04 May 2010 23:25
Muslims Making Britain
This one-day workshop was jointly run by the AHRC-funded research projects Making Britain and Framing Muslims and was held on 14 July 2009 at SOAS, University of London
This one-day workshop explored facets of the historical and contemporary South AsianMuslim experience in Britain, focused on the cultural productions of writers, artists, activists and workers from 1870 to the present in order to explore how they have negotiated, interacted with and sometimes resisted majority British culture; their varied and complex identifications and affiliations; and the ways in which they might have re-imagined the nation. By focusing on how South Asian Muslims have helped to shape British cultural and political life across the period, this collaborative workshop foregrounded the depth as well as the breadth of their contribution to the making of Britain. A report of the day is available further down this page
Workshop Others Within and Without: Muslims, Jews and European Identity
Last Updated on Friday, 30 April 2010 15:56
This was a one-day workshop that explored the mutual and intersecting analyses of both Arab/Muslim and Jew as framed in a relational presence to each other and to Europe. It was held in SOAS on Saturday 14th March 2009.
Read more: Workshop Others Within and Without: Muslims, Jews and European Identity
Seminar Nadje Al-Ali and Sohail Daulatzai
Last Updated on Friday, 30 April 2010 15:56
Nadje Al-Ali presented a collection of photographic portraits of women since 1948 to the present day, documenting the changing multiple roles women have played in Iraqi life, which she argues are central to fate of the nation. Her talk was counterpointed by Sohail Daulatzai whose paper set the Afro American Muslim experience in a historical context derived from and critical of American colonialism, a debate he argues that has reached a complex nexus in the inauguration of Barak Obama. Podcasts and photos to be posted Friday 13th March.
Seminar Moustafa Bayoumi and Bob Cannon
Last Updated on Friday, 30 April 2010 15:58
Moustafa Bayoumi presents an overview of his recent collection of Muslim experiences in contemporary America called 'How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being Young and Muslim in America Today, this is complimented by Bob Cannon's consideration of Social Justice through Multiculturalism or Cosmopolitanism in his paper 'Goodbye Multiculturalism – Hello Cosmopolitanism? Social Justice in a Divided World'
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