Schedule

Translating Islam: A Conference in Honor of Carl Ernst
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, October 6-7, 2017
Hampton Inn & Suites Chapel Hill-Carrboro/Downtown
370 E. Main Street, Carrboro, NC 27510

Preliminary Schedule
Updated September 1, 2017

Friday, October 6, 2017

9:30-9:45 a.m. Bruce Lawrence, Duke University, Introductory Remarks and Reflections on Working with Carl Ernst Building the Field of Islamic Studies
9:45-11:30 a.m. Panel: Islam at Large
Chair: Mona Hassan, Duke University
Katherine Pratt Ewing, Columbia University, “Sufism’s Ambivalent Publics.”
Kathleen Foody, College of Charleston, “U.S. Cultural Diplomacy and the Heritage of Islam, 1979-1983.”
Kambiz GhaneaBassiri, Reed College, “Sufism in the American Public Square.”
Brett Wilson, Central European University, “Sufi Orders in the Making of Modern Turkey.”
Respondent: SherAli Tareen, Franklin & Marshall College
11:30-11:45 a.m. Jim Peacock, Reflections on Working with Carl Ernst Building International Studies at the University of North Carolina
1:00-2:45 p.m. Panel: Indo-Muslim Ventures
Chair: Anna Bigelow, North Carolina State University
Jim Laine and Joy Laine, Macalester College, “Religion/Islam/Hinduism/Sufism/Yoga.”
Ali Altaf Mian, Seattle University, “Communalist Contestations: Hindu-Muslim Theological Polemics in Colonial India.”
Samira Sheikh, Vanderbilt University, “The Long Life and Strange Death of Gujari.”
Fabrizio Speziale, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3, “The Islamization of Ayurvedic Materials in Persian Culture.”
Respondent: David Gilmartin, North Carolina State University
3:00-4:45 p.m. Panel: Translation Issues
Chair: Charles Kurzman, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Brannon Ingram, Northwestern University, “Is Din Translatable?”
Tony K. Stewart, Vanderbilt University, “From Translation to Conceptual Integration: Acts of Parody and Appropriation in Early Modern Bengali Sufi Fictions.”
Tehseen Thaver, Bard College, “Questions of Language and Religious Identity in Qur’anic Interpretation.”
Brannon Wheeler, U.S. Naval Academy, “Translation, Travel, Transfiguration: The Visionary Recitals of Ibn Sina and the Practice of Scholarship in the Study of Religion.”
Respondent: miriam cooke, Duke University
8:00-10:00 p.m. Concert: An Evening of Persian Music
Rohab Ensemble with vocalist Sepideh Raissadat
Tickets must be purchased in advance. Please click the concert tab for more information and to purchase tickets.
Location: Stone Center Auditorium, UNC-Chapel Hill, 150 South Road, Chapel Hill, NC 29599-5250

Saturday, October 7, 2017

10:00-10:15 a.m. Cemalnur Sargut,  Reflections on Working with Carl Ernst
10:15 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Panel: Sufi Studies
Chair: Omid Safi, Duke University
Rick Colby, University of Oregon, “Ascension Visions of Sufi Masters: Approaching the Translation of the Dream Experiences of Ibn Abi Jamra Andalusi (d. ca. 1300) in Light of the Mystical Diary of Ruzbihan Baqli Shirazi (d. 1209).”
Scott Kugle, Emory University, “A Crooked Cap Marks the Right Way to Pray: Embodying Love in Qawwali.”
Gregory A. Lipton, Macalester College, “Stars in the Realm of the Sun: Rethinking Ibn ‘Arabi’s Religious Universalism as Political Metaphysics.”
Rob Rozehnal, Lehigh University, “Sufi Cyberscapes: The Inayati Order in the Virtual Ecosystem of American Islam.”
Canguzel Zulfikar, Üsküdar University, “Carl Ernst’s Methodology of Sufi Studies.”
1:30-3:15 p.m. Panel: Islamic Studies
Chair: Juliane Hammer, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Richard Martin, Virginia Tech, “Sources of the Self in Islam: Rethinking Charles Taylor’s Problematic in Islamic Studies.”
Youshaa Patel, Lafayette College, “Muslims Wearing European Hats: Critical Responses to Muhammad Abduh’s Transvaal Fatwa.”
Michael Pregill, Boston University, “Neo-Geigerism: Some Observations on the Qur’an, Islamic Origins, and Judeo-Islamica.”
Kevin Reinhart, Dartmouth College, “Ritual and Islam.”
Respondents: Laurie Patton, Middlebury College; Tom Tweed, University of Notre Dame
3:30-5:15 p.m. Roundtable: The Future of Islamic Studies
Chair: Ahmet Karamustafa, University of Maryland
Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst, University of Vermont
Peter Wright, Colorado College
Qasim Zaman, Princeton University
Respondent and Final Remarks: Carl Ernst, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill