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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170914
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SUMMARY:Exploring Contemporary Muslim Art\, Culture and Heritage in Britain
DESCRIPTION:In association with the Dept of Theology & Religion at the University of Birmingham\n  \nThis one-day Muslims in Britain Research Network (MBRN) conference will create space for critical dialogue and community exchange by bringing aspiring and established Muslim artists and cultural producers together with eminent scholars and researchers\, policymakers and arts funders. The conference will provide a space to discuss\, inform and engage through a program of lectures\, presentations and panel discussions. Cultural experts will share insights into the key factors affecting Muslim arts and culture in Britain. \nFor further information and registration see: https://muslimartconference2017.eventbrite.co.uk \nProvisional Schedule: \n09.15-10.00 – Registration and Networking \n10.00-10.15 – Welcome\nProfessor Alison Scott-Baumann (MBRN Chair)\nDr Stephen Jones (MBRN General Secretary)\nDr Katherine Brown (University of Birmingham) \n10.15-11-15 – Opening Plenary \nMuslim Art & Culture in Britain: the Challenges\nDr Carl Morris (University of Central Lancashire)\n‘Muslim Art and Culture: the Challenge of Conceptualisation and Definition’\nDr Fatima Zahra Hassan (Educator & Artist)\nLuqman Ali (Artistic Director\, Khayaal Theatre)\nSara Choudhrey (Digital Islamic Art\, PhD Candidate\, University of Kent)\nChair: Mobeen Butt (MBRN/Muslim Museum) \n11.30-12.45 – Parallel Session 1 \nMuslim Art\, Identity & Activism\nDr William Barylo (Affiliate Researcher\, EHESS (Paris))\n‘Art as a Decolonial Narrative: Rumi’s Cave in London’\nShahnaz Akhter (PhD Candidate\, Warwick University)\n‘Englistan\, The New British’\nIsa Sulaiman Noorudeen (Co-Founder\, Developing Our Traditions)\n‘Art in Our Times: The Battle with a Community to which Art is Alien’\nFasial Hussain (Director\, True Form Projects)\n‘Suspect Objects\, Suspect Subjects’\nChair: Mohammed Ali MBE (Soul City Arts) \nMuslim Heritage & Exhibitions\nDr Nazneen Ahmed (Research Associate – UCL)\n‘“A Special Space for Sisters”: Tracing the Creative Making of Muslim Women’s Space Using Creative Research Methods’\nDr Irfan Malik (Independent Researcher)\n‘The First World War contribution of Dulmial Village\, Pakistan’\nHaroon Ravat (Director\, Xtra Mile West Midlands)\n‘Connected Histories: Muslims in the WWI’\nIzzy Mohammed (Project Manager\, Soul City Arts)\n‘Knights of the Raj Heritage Project’\nNeelam Hussain (Curator\, Cadbury Research Library\, University of Birmingham)\n‘Heritage\, Arts and Islamic Manuscripts’\nChair: Dr Jamil Sherif (East London Mosque Archives) \n12.45-13.45 – Lunch / Prayers (Zohar 1.03pm) / Networking \n13.45-14.45 – Performance or Tour \nSufi Music\nDome Rehearsal Room\, Bramall Music Building\nAyesha Khan (PhD Candidate\, Cardiff University)\n‘Contemporary Sufi Expression amongst Young British Muslims’\nTas Bashir & Dr Scott Wilson (University of Birmingham)\nQawwali Research Unit & Demonstration of Sufi music using B.E.A.S.T.\nChair: Prof Alison Scott-Baumann (MBRN/SOAS) \nTour of Cadbury Research Library (max. capacity 20)\nCadbury Research Library\, Muirhead Tower\nNeelam Hussain (Curator\, Cadbury Research Library\, University of Birmingham)\nTour of the Mingana Collection of Middle Eastern Manuscripts \n15.00-16.00 – Parallel Session 2 \nIslam and Music: Rap\, Choirs & Song\nMirina Paananen (Student\, University of Oxford)\n‘The Mosque Choir: Engaging with Muslim Choral Heritage’\nAnna Nayyar (Research Director\, Vivacity – Peterborough Museum)\n‘The Quivering Scale: Tradition and Fusion Over 3 Generations of Muslim Women’s Song’\nIsmael Lea South (Project Manager\, Black Muslims in British History)\n‘A Brief Overview of the History and Influence of Black British Urban Artistic Expression of Islamic Urban Rap & Poetry’\nDr Abdul-Azim Ahmed (Cardiff University)\n‘Grime and Islam’\nChair: Dr Sadek Hamid (MBRN) \nTraditional\, Minimalistic & Digital: Islamic Art & Calligraphy\nDr Fatima Zahra Hassan (Educator & Artist)\n‘Art of the Book’\nRazwan Ul-Haq – Artist & Author\, Calligraphy\, Fantasy & Sci-Fi\n‘Is There Such a Thing as “Islamic” Art? A Practical Exposition’\nRazwan Baig – Calligrapher and Collector of Islamic Art\n‘The evolution of Islamic Calligraphy’ \nFunding Workshop (TBC) \n16.15-17.15 – Parallel Session 3 \nLiterature\nProf Peter Morey (University of Birmingham)\nDr Rula M. Al-Abdulrazak (University of East London)\n‘Who’s the hero? Muslim Women in Arabic Literature’\nChair: Dr Amina Yaqin (SOAS)\n[Additional speaker(s) TBC] \nWeapons of Beauty\, Rumi’s Circle\nSaimma Dyer (Director\, Chickpea Press)\nFatimah Ashrif (Founder\, Rumi’s Circle)\nMohammed Nazam (Founder\, Berakah Arts) \n(Re)Creating Muslim Heritage in Britain (roundtable)\nDr Jamil Sherif (East London Mosque Archive)\nSadiya Ahmed (Founder\, Everyday Muslim Heritage and Archive Initiative)\nIzzy Mohammed (PhD Candidate\, ‘Representation in Public Archives’\, University of Birmingham)\nHaroon Ravat (Connected Histories: Muslims in WWI)\nNeelam Hussain (Curator\, Cadbury Research Library\, University of Birmingham)\nFacilitator: Mobeen Butt (Director\, Muslim Museum Initiative)\n[Additional participants TBC] \n17.30-18.45 – Closing Plenary – Practitioner Panel Discussion \nArtists in Conversation: the Opportunities\nMohammed Ali MBE (Founder\, Soul City Arts)\nSaba Khan (CEO\, ArtEase)\nTeakster (Digital & Graphic Artist)\nSalma Zulfiqar (Humanitarian Artist)\nHassan Vawda (Community Arts Programmer)\nChair/Reflection: Abid Hussain (Director\, Arts Council England)
URL:https://mbrn.org/event/exploring-contemporary-muslim-art-culture-and-heritage-in-britain/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180419
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180420
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SUMMARY:Populist Politics and the Minority Voice: British Muslims\, Extremisms and Inclusion
DESCRIPTION:In partnership with the Department of Theology and Religious Studies\, King’s College London (KCL)\, University of London:\n  \nEvent Description\nA one-day Muslims in Britain Research Network (MBRN) conference organised in partnership with the Department of Theology and Religious Studies\, King’s College London (KCL)\, University of London \n19 April 2018 \nThemes include:\n\nMuslim activism and populist politics;\nNew media\, populism and the representation of Muslims and other minorities;\nRecognising\, opposing and offering alternatives to anti-Semitism\, Islamophobia and other extremisms;\nBritish Muslims and national identity after Brexit;\nChallenges to\, and for\, principles of tolerance\, free speech and accommodation.\n\nPlenary speakers\nNarzanin Massoumi\, University of Exeter & editor\, What is Islamophobia?\nAaron Winter\, University of East London\nDavid Feldman\, Director\, Pears Institute for the Study of Anti-Semitism\nShenaz Bunglawala\, Aziz Foundation\nRokhsana Fiaz OBE\, Newham councillor and mayoral candidate\nKeith Kahn-Harris\, Leo Baeck College and Birkbeck\, University of London\nRuth Sheldon\, Birkbeck\, University of London \nAdditional speakers\nReza Gholami\, University of Birmingham\nKhadijah Elshayyal\, University of Edinburgh\nMirjam Aeschbach\, University of Zurich\nShanon Shah\, Critical Muslim\nAjmal Hussain\, University of Manchester\nLaura Jones\, Cardiff University\nWaqas Tufail\, Leeds Beckett University\nGillian Kennedy\, King’s College London\nKristin Henrard\, ESL\, Rotterdam\nAyesha Chowdhury\, Leeds Becket University\nLaurens de Rooij\, University of Cape Town \nConference outline\nAcross Europe and North America\, populist parties and leaders have surged in recent years\, with figures such as Donald Trump and Andrej Babiš and parties such as UKIP and Alternative für Deutschland making significant electoral gains. Although different in important respects\, these movements share certain themes\, such as emphasis on national self-interest and hostility toward international co-operation\, liberal political norms and established news media. In almost all cases this desire to reassert national identity has also involved renewed hostility toward ethnic and religious minorities – especially Jewish and Muslim minorities – as well as toward any frameworks of liberal accommodation that have allowed minorities to participate in public life on an equal footing. In the UK\, this was evident in the referendum on European Union membership in 2016\, which not only destabilised previously taken-for-granted political and legal frameworks but also contributed to a sustained rise in hate crime\, anti-immigration rhetoric and Islamophobia. \nThis one-day conference on ‘Populist politics and the minority voice’ will discuss the effects of these changes on British Muslims\, and how the concerns of British Muslims relate to those of other minority groups as well as wider debates about the future of liberal states\, free speech and ‘fake news. Since at least the 1970s\, British Muslims – as a group and alongside other minorities – have been involved in a struggle for rights\, for media and political representation and for recognition. What might these struggles look like in the future? What is the future of British Muslim identity\, post-Brexit? How might rights and legal accommodations be affected by withdrawal from the EU? How do concerns about rising Islamophobia intersect with concerns about resurgent anti-Semitism and far-right and populist movements? How should debates about Muslims and the media proceed in an era of ‘fake news’? How can standards of debate about minorities be preserved and what can higher education and Muslim institutions contribute? \nConference programme\n09.30-10.15 – Registration and Networking \n10.15-10.30 – Welcome\, Alison Scott-Baumann (MBRN) and Daniel Nilsson DeHanas (King’s College London) \n10.30-12.00 – Opening Plenary\, ‘Recognising\, Opposing and Offering Alternatives to Anti-Semitism\, Islamophobia and Other Extremisms’ \n\nNarzanin Massoumi\, University of Exeter\nAaron Winter\, University of East London\nDavid Feldman\, Pears Institute for the study of Antisemitism\, Birkbeck\, University of London\nRuth Sheldon\, Birkbeck\, University of London\n\n12.00-13.00 – Lunch \n13.00-14.30 – Parallel Session 1A\, ‘Transnational Law and Activism’ \n\nGillian Kennedy\, King’s College London\, ‘Between a rock and a hard place’: British Egyptian Muslims and new explanations for Transnational Diaspora Mobilization since the 2011 Egyptian Uprising’\nAyesha Chowdhury and Razaq Raj\, Leeds Beckett University\, ‘21st Century Conflict: Incitement of Religious Discrimination\, Freedom of Speech and Defamation of Religion’\nKristin Henrard\, Erasmus School of Law\, and Peter Vermeersch\, University of Leuven (KU Leuven)\, ‘Nationalism with a ‘human’ face? European human rights judgments and the reinvention of nationalist politics’\n\n13.00-14.30 – Parallel Session 1B\, ‘Identity Politics’ \n\nKhadijah Elshayyal\, University of Edinburgh\, ‘Muslim Identity politics: Islam\, activism and equality in Britain’\nShannon Shah\, Critical Muslim\, ‘Populist politics and gay Muslims: Scapegoats\, pawns or rebels?’\nLaura Jones\, ‘Challenging Islamophobia and Fostering ‘Ambassadors’ for Islam – A Case Study of Open Iftar Events at a Mosque’\n\n14.30-15.00 – Coffee / Networking \n15.00-16.30 – Parallel Session 2A\, ‘Media and Representation’ \n\nLaurens de Rooj\, University of Cape Town\, ‘Believing and Belonging: Media Engagement With Populism\, Islam\, And Muslims In Britain’\nMirjam Aeschbach\, University of Zurich\, ‘New Media\, Representation\, and Belonging: British Muslim Struggle for Recognition on Twitter’\nAjmal Hussain\, University of Manchester\, ‘The impossibility of Muslims in the public sphere’\n\n15.00-16.30 – Parallel Session 2B\, ‘Islamophobia and the Far-Right’ \n\nWaqas Tufail\, Leeds Beckett University\, ‘From ‘Grooming Gangs’ to Far-Right Populism and Racist Murder: Anti-Muslim Racism and Resistance in Neoliberal Britain’\nStephen H. Jones\, Newman University and MBRN\, ‘“That’s how Muslims are required to view the world”: Race\, culture and belief in non-Muslims’ descriptions of Islam and science’\nReza Gholami\, ‘Extremisms\, Policy and Myths of ‘Muslim Education’\n\n16.30-17.00 – Transfer / Set up / Networking \n17.00-18.15 – Closing Plenary\, ‘Minorities and British Identity after Brexit’ \n\nShenaz Bunglawala\, Aziz Foundation\nRokhsana Fiaz\, Newham mayoral candidate\nKeith Kahn-Harris\, Leo Baeck College\n\n18.15-18.30 – Closing Summary\, Alison Scott-Baumann \nCONFERENCE CLOSE
URL:https://mbrn.org/event/populist-politics-and-the-minority-voice-british-muslims-extremisms-and-inclusion/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180718
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180719
DTSTAMP:20260425T131010
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SUMMARY:Studying Muslim Britain: A Forum for Early Career Researchers
DESCRIPTION:In collaboration with the University of Manchester
URL:https://mbrn.org/event/studying-muslim-britain-a-forum-for-early-career-researchers/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180912
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180913
DTSTAMP:20260425T131010
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SUMMARY:British Muslims and health: addressing inequalities and promoting access
DESCRIPTION: In partnership with Bradford University and the Born in Bradford project.
URL:https://mbrn.org/event/british-muslims-and-health-addressing-inequalities-and-promoting-access/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200115
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200116
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SUMMARY:British Muslim Charitable Organisations: A Best Practice Forum
DESCRIPTION: In partnership with the Muslim Charities Forum and the Humanitarian Academy for Development\n  \nThis event is for scholars and practitioners working in\, working with or researching Muslim charities that are based in the United Kingdom but conduct charitable activities throughout the world. British Muslim INGOs have been in operation in the UK since the early eighties. Since then\, the sector has grown and now includes over a hundred charities which have a total spend of just under half a billion pounds annually. \nThese charities have been at the forefront of providing aid in times of crisis and in supporting long term economic development in some of the poorest parts of the world. At this conference\, scholars and practitioners from across this sector will showcase their work from the field and discuss and debate the challenges the sector faces\, whether to do with fundraising\, policy contexts or working internationally. Papers will either focus on a specific aspect of British Muslim charity that presenters wish to highlight as best practice or seek to open debates about working in any aspect of development work. The conference organisers intend to collect all or part of the proceedings of the conference to be published in book form. \nThe call for papers for this event has now closed\, but all are welcome to register to attend. \nThe Muslims in Britain Research Network is a network of academics\, researchers and practitioners that specialises in studying and supporting the development of the British Muslim community. The Muslim Charities Forum has been studying the sector for the past year and will be launching its research into the charity sector at this event. The Humanitarian Academy for Development is a center of excellence serving the leadership\, research and talent development needs of the humanitarian sector.
URL:https://mbrn.org/event/british-muslim-charitable-organisations-a-best-practice-forum/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201208
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201209
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SUMMARY:BRITISH MUSLIMS AND COVID-19
DESCRIPTION:British Muslims and Covid-19: Impacts\, Experiences and Responses\n  \nSymposium Overview\n  \nResearch on Covid-19 highlighted its disproportionate impact on Black and Asian Minority Ethnic groups (BAME) communities (Public Health England\, 2020). However\, these studies only offer a limited understanding of the particularity of experiences within the umbrella category BAME. For instance\, there is only limited discussion around faith in relation to Covid-19\, its impacts and the socio-economic fall-outs of lockdown. This MBRN symposium redressed this gap by taking an intersectional perspective in mapping and analysing the impact of Covid-19 on British Muslim communities. By bringing together practitioners and academics\, we examined how diverse British Muslim communities have experienced the pandemic\, how their lives have been impacted during and after lockdown and how they responded. \nBy focusing on the experiences of British Muslims\, this online symposium enabled us to examine the interplay of ethnicity\, religion and deprivation\, in negotiating the particular challenges of living through Covid-19. We explored the diversity of ways in which British Muslims have experienced and responded to Covid-19\, and seek to understand its ongoing impacts. We suggested answers for the question\, “How are diverse British Muslims living through\, and responding to the challenges of\, Covid-19?”. \nThe symposium included presentations from academics and practitioners from a range of epistemological positions and disciplinary standpoints to explore dimensions of Muslim identity / lived experiences in relation to the pandemic\, lockdown and subsequent socio-economic implications of Covid-19 in Britain.
URL:https://mbrn.org/event/british-muslims-and-covid-19/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20240814T080000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20240814T170000
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SUMMARY:Call for Papers: British Muslim Studies at 50: Retrospect and Prospect
DESCRIPTION:This conference will examine some of the main contributions to British Muslim Studies (BMS)\, including a specific focus on research institutes and centres.\nThough still in its infancy as a sub-field\, the academic study of British Muslims in UK institutions of higher education is now over five decades old.  Since the 1960s/1970s\, research and teaching about Britain’s Muslims has developed and expanded – advancing our understanding and knowledge of Britain’s diverse and dynamic Muslim population in myriad disciplines – including but not limited to sociology\, history\, religious studies\, Islamic Studies\, geography\, politics\, and their various intersections. \nOver the past decade or so\, British Muslim Studies (BMS) has seen the emergence and flourishing of successive cohorts of scholars from within Muslim communities – complicating and enriching the field by interrogating definitions\, concepts and parameters of understanding. This\, coupled with the long tradition of engagement and partnership with community institutions\, practitioners and grassroots spaces means it is an exciting time for BMS and an apt moment to cast a retrospective glance over the past 50 years\, while looking ahead towards future prospects. \nThis conference will examine some of the main contributions to BMS\, including a specific focus on research institutes and centres. It will also pay tribute to two recently departed pioneers of BMS: Professors Mohammed Anwar and Ataullah Siddiqui. \nWe invite abstract submissions for papers\, which showcase emergent research topics and directions in British Muslim Studies. We are keen to receive abstracts from PhD scholars and early career academics and are particularly interested in proposals corresponding to the following themes: \n\nCo-production/collaboration between researchers and communities\nSynergies (or tensions) between academe and practitioners\nInnovative research methods and interrogation/problematisation of extant methods\n\nTo submit a proposal:\n\nPlease submit a title and abstract of no more than 300 words together with names and short biographies (150 words) of the presenter/s\, institutional affiliation/s (if relevant)\, and contact details.\nWe welcome proposals from postgraduate researchers\, independent scholars and practitioners.\nProposals should be sent to MuslimsinBritainRN@gmail.com\nAcademic enquiries should be sent to Dr Khadijah Elshayyal\, ke3@soas.ac.uk\nDeadline: 5pm on Wednesday 15th June 2022\nSuccessful presenters will be notified by Thursday 30th June 2022.\n\nhttp://ijtihadnet.com/call-for-papers-british-muslim-studies-at-50-retrospect-and-prospect/
URL:https://mbrn.org/event/call-for-papers-british-muslim-studies-at-50-retrospect-and-prospect/
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SUMMARY:Conference: Muslims in Britain\, 1800‒1970\, and Beyond: Historical Approaches & Why
DESCRIPTION:Muslims in Britain\, 1800‒1970\, and Beyond: Historical Approaches & Why \nDate: Monday and Tuesday\, 1st and 2nd of July\, 2024. \nTime: Day One – 10 am – 5:30 pm \nDay Two – 10 am – 2:30 pm \nVenue: Westminster University – Marylebone Campus (see map) \nRegistration \nConference Schedule \nDay 1: Monday 1st July \n09:30 am – 10:00 am – Arrival\, Registration and Refreshments \n10:00 am – 10:20 am – Words of Welcome – Westminster & MBRN \n10:25 am – 10:45 am – MBRN launches new membership programme & AGM \n10:50 am – 11:50 am – First Plenary Session – Abdul-Azim Ahmed \nIslam in Wales\nChair: Sariya Cheruvallil-Contractor \n11:50 am – 12: 05 pm- Break \n12:10 am -1:05 pm – Panel Session 1 (Rooms tbc) \nSufi Communities of Britain: Tracing their Historic Trajectories \nChair: Dr. Hafza Iqbal \n\nC J (Ted) Bearup (University of Manchester): The Growing Influence of the Shadhiliyya Tariqa in the UK \nQudra Goodall (University of East Anglia): Intergenerational narratives on belonging\, ideology and British Islam\nFarzana Hannan (Trustee of Hijaz Trust) & Imran Khan (Hijaz College): A Very British Islam: The Hijazi Naqshbandi Sufi Community in Warwickshire \n\nContemporary Trends and Future Possibilities in the Study of British Muslim History \nChair: Dr. Abdul Azim-Ahmed \n\nProf. Ron Geaves (Cardiff University): Contestation\, Nuance and Consequence in Emic and Etic Approaches in Quilliam Studies\nProf. Gary R. Bunt (University of Wales\, Trinity Saint David) & Prof. Sariya Cheruvallil-Contractor (Coventry University): Future Histories: Our Contemporary Archiving of Digital British Islam \nTamanna Taznin (Department for Health and Social Care): Is it Fair to say that Muslim Experiences in non-Muslim States are Still Largely Determined by the Legacy of Colonialism? \n\n1:10  pm – 2:10 pm – Networking Lunch \n2:15 pm – 3:55 pm – Second Plenary Session \nCollaboration and Co-Creation in Documenting History – Community Practitioners and Academia\nChair: Sariya Cheruvallil-Contractor \n–    Everyday Muslim Heritage and Archive – Insights into community archiving and academic partnership \n–    Launch of muslimhistorymaps.com \nMuslim History Maps is a digital mapping project that collects and shares the history of the global Muslim civilisation\, past and present. \n–    Yahya Birt – Making Community History through Place\, Poetry and Performance: the Commemoration of Fatima Cates \n–    Oluwatosin Daniju  – Curating a Photographic Archive \n–    Asif Shakoor – My story researching BAME seafarers \n–   Muneera Williams – Spoken Word – Reflections on documenting and archiving family and community history \n–    Q&A \n4:00 pm – 4:15 pm – Break \n4:20 pm – 5:25 pm – Panel Session 2 (Rooms tbc) \nMuslim Activism and Institutionalisation in British Muslim History\nChair: tbc \n\nTabassum Hawa (Royal Holloway\, University of London): ‘A History in Shadow’ – Emotions\, Identity\, and Muslim Activism in Britain: 1933-1953 \nMuhammad Nabil (SOAS\, University of London): Islamic Charitable and Philanthropic Organisations: Religiosity\, Institutional activism and formation of British-Muslim Identities \nMurid Shah Nadiri (University of Oxford): Resurrecting Muslim Intellectual Heritage in London/ A City of Shiʿi Muslim Institutions and Learning \n\nBritish Muslim Knowledge Production and Resistance in Imperial Britain\nChair: Yahya Birt \n\nSamuel Bartlett (Royal Holloway\, University of London): Renegade in an Imperial Age: Tracing the Subversive Elements of Marmaduke Pickthall’s Scholarship\nOmar Nasr (London School of Economics): British Imperialism\, Knowledge Production and Islam in World War II\nHassam Latif (University of Durham): Lascars and the Pre-History of the Cardiff Race Riots 1919 \n\n5:30 pm Close \nDay 2: Tuesday 2nd July\n09:30 am – 10:00 am – Arrival\, Registration and Refreshments \n10: 00 am – 10:10 am – Welcome \n10:15 am -11:05 am – Plenary (Room tbc) \nMuslim Women in Britain\, 1850-1950: 100 Years of Hidden History \nChair: tbc \n11:10 am – 11:15 am – Coffee Break \n11: 20 am – 12:25 pm – Panel Session 4 (Rooms tbc) \nHistory of British Muslim Arts\nChair: tbc \n\nHassan Vawda (Goldsmiths University): Muslim Modern Artists in Britain: 1925 and 1962\nStefan Williamson Fa: Singing Sindhi Saints in Notting Hill: Aziz Balouch and his Sufi Society (1940- 1970) \nLynsey Haught (University of Birmingham): The Music of the Hemispheres: Halide Edib’s Transnational Voice and the Sound of East-West Fusion in Late Ottoman Constantinople  \n\nTravelling To\, Through\, and Within: History of British Muslim Migration and Travel\nChair: tbc \n\nTalha Bhamji (University of Wales Trinity Saint David): Recollecting Hijra in the History of Deoband\nAbdul Sabur Kidwai (King’s College London): Islam in/and Victorian Britain: Travel Writing of Sir Syed and Masihuddin Alvi  \nNasima Hassan (Star Academies): 1967: The Journey of a Changemaker\n\n12:30 pm 12:45 pm – Break \n12:50 pm – 1:55 pm – Panel Session 4 (Rooms tbc) \nBiographical Studies and Methodological Reflections in British Muslim History\nChair: tbc \n\nSalim Ayduz (Independent Senior Researcher): The Astonishing Story of Ayuba Suleiman Diallo – An African Slave\nJaffer A. Mirza (King’s College London): Using oral history as a method: Documenting early Shi’a Muslim spaces in Britain (1960s-1970s) \nIman Dawood (University of Cambridge): A Post-Ideological Islam in the Making? Reflections from Preliminary Fieldwork in the British Muslim Community \n\nMuslimahs in Britain: Injustices\, Resistance\, and Agency in the Past & Present\nChair: tbc \n\nMuminah Hussain: Oral History Study into Muslim Female Agency\, Late 20th Century Britain\nMuhammad Zubair Abbasi (Oxford Brookes University): Religious Marriage as Children’s Play: Inequality\, Uniformity\, and Exclusion under English Matrimonial Laws \nFarah Ahmed (University of Cambridge): British Muslim Women Educators’ Innovations to Counter the Securitisation and Demonisation of Muslim Youth.\n\n2 pm – Close \n                       ——————————————————-\nCALL FOR SUBMISSIONS\nLast date for submission of abstracts: Saturday\, 11 May 2024\nMuslims in Britain\, 1800‒1970\, and Beyond: Historical Approaches & Why\nVenue: University of Westminster\nEveryday Muslim Heritage and Archive Initiative (EMHAI) are delighted to announce a collaborative conference between the Muslims in Britain Research Network (MBRN)\, and the University of Westminster\, which will be hosted as part of the Westminster Voices series. This unique partnership aims to bring together scholars\, practitioners\, and communities to delve into the multifaceted histories of Islam and Muslims in Britain from the 1800s onwards. \nMuslims have been in Britain for centuries\, but their presence grew in the nineteenth century\, as did the first communities. The earliest Muslims had a transient presence in Britain as lascars (sailors)\, travellers\, sojourners\, soldiers\, servants (including ayahs)\, students\, notables\, anti-colonial dissidents\, as well as performing troupes including acrobats and ethnographic shows of colonised peoples. \nThe earliest Muslim communities in Britain evolved around the first mosques in Liverpool and Woking (both 1889) and also in and around the ports of Liverpool\, Cardiff\, East London\, Manchester and South Shields\, where from c. 1836 onwards\, some ‘lascars’ took local wives and settled down. In the Liverpool and Woking mosque communities\, many congregants were converts who encountered Islam through travel\, mosque publications or public lectures\, as well as sojourners and others who happened to be ‘passing through’. In port communities\, working-class women converted to Islam to marry Muslim sailors\, set up homes and have families. These conversions took place in social contexts that viewed Islam and Muslims with suspicion and ridicule (Gilham 2014\, Ansari 2001). This remained a period of great mobility through imperial networks of sojourners to Britain. Take\, for example\, the itinerant scholar and thinker Mushir Hosein Kidwai\, who stayed in Britain for 15 years over a 23-year timescale\, making decisive contributions to the development of early Muslim political organising in Britain during this period\, particularly his work on Islam and socialism (Fogg 2019). This conference is interested in uncovering both the transient and settled aspects of the Muslim experience\, identity\, Islamic beliefs and practices in Britain. \nThe two world wars saw the substantial contributions of Muslims\, a third of the British Indian Army\, to the war effort. According to the National Muslim War Memorial Trust\, Muslims mainly from the Indian subcontinent (modern India\, Pakistan and Bangladesh) and African countries fought on three continents\, playing a decisive role in Britain’s first major land victory against Nazi Germany in North Africa. Throughout and beyond this period as Kidwai’s story indicates\, Muslims were politically active\, engaging in activism around a variety of Muslim issues of national and international significance (Cienkus 2018)\, including the Armenian-Ottoman conflict\, the Khilafat movement and the Indian independence movement (which led to the formation of India\, Pakistan and Bangladesh). This conference is keen to explore historical Muslim political activism in Britain. \nPost-1960s\, mass migration from South Asia\, Africa and the Caribbean radically changed the demographics and ‘flavour’ of Islam and Britain forever (Gilliat-Ray 2010). These people from the erstwhile colonies often arrived in the UK\, not solely as economic migrants but to help rebuild the mother country\, Britain (Weller 2013). This was a new period of history-making\, identity formation\, and milestone moments. As Muslim communities grew in number and size\, they encountered\, experienced and challenged racism\, anti-Muslim prejudice and Islamophobia (Weller et al 2013). The 1960s and 70s also saw the inception of Muslim institutions – mosques\, seminaries\, umbrella organisations – that\, to date\, remain foundational to the identity of Muslims in Britain (Elshayyal 2018\, Peace 2015\, Fazakarley 2014). Weller writes about the milestone moments in British Muslim history\, including the Salman Rushdie affair\, which\, according to Weller (2009) and Hiro (1992)\, consolidated Muslim identity in Britain as distinct from South Asian identity. Despite being a period of significant flux and development for Islam in Britain\, this period remains unresearched – a gap this conference aims to address. \nThe histories of Islam in Britain are growing (Ansari 2011\, 2008\, 2004; Cheruvallil-Contractor 2020\, Cheruvallil-Contractor and Gilham 2023\, Geaves 2010; Gilham 2023\, 2014; Halliday 2010; Lawless 1995; Seddon 2014)\, but more nuance and granularity is needed about the complexity and intersectionality of Muslim identity and life in Britain\, for example around gender\, class\, ethnicity and different ways of ‘believing’. The available insights provide valuable evidence of how different Muslims and any communities they were part of attempted to\, not always successfully\, negotiate conciliations between British and Muslim aspects of their identities\, values\, families\, communities and loyalties.  Discovering the stories of Islam in Britain has become increasingly important for modern British Muslims who want to better understand their roots in the country and celebrate their histories of activism\, agency and nation-building. This conference aims to highlight these histories in all their richness and diversity. \nWe are eager to include perspectives from various backgrounds and positions\, whether academic or non-academic. We encourage individual submissions at any stage of their academic or non-academic career. The goal is to foster collaborative efforts with community stakeholders\, promoting knowledge exchange. We very much welcome submissions in different formats\, including traditional academic papers\, community heritage projects\, poetry\, spoken word\, performances\, and other forms of artistic expression.  Topics for submissions can include but are not limited to:- \n\nIntersectionality in historical Muslim identity in Britain\nPost- and de-colonial approaches within history\nContemporary impact and influence of historical British Muslims\nExperiences of racism and prejudice in early British Muslims\nHistories of  Muslim Organizations and Institutions\nContestations in ‘British Muslim’ identity\nSocio-political activism to date\nSignificant ‘British Muslim’ public figures\nRecent books/publications on the history of Islam and Muslims in Britain\n\nTo submit a proposal: \n\nPlease submit a title and abstract of no more than 300 words together with names and short biographies (150 words) of the presenter/s\, institutional affiliation/s (if relevant)\, and contact details.\nWe also welcome proposals from academics\, postgraduate researchers\, independent scholars and community practitioners.\nProposals should be sent to MuslimsinBritainRN@gmail.com\nDeadline: 5 pm on Friday\, 11th May 2024\nSuccessful presenters will be notified by 24th May 2024\n\nConference Organisers \nSadiya Ahmed\, Samuel Bartlett\, Sariya Cheruvallil-Contractor \nMuslim in Britain Research Network\, Everyday Muslim Heritage and Archive Initiative and University of Westminster \n  \nConference: Muslims in Britain\, 1800‒1970\, and Beyond: Historical Approaches & Why
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DESCRIPTION:We look forward to welcoming academics and practitioners at the conference Muslim Converts in Britain and Beyond: Transitions and Transformations\, which takes place on Thursday the 9th of January 2025 at Cardiff University. Registrations have now closed.\n\nPlease check the timetable and relevant information by downloading the Programme.\nIf you have any questions\, please don’t hesitate to email us at MuslimsinBritainRN@gmail.com.
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SUMMARY:Call for Papers Muslim Converts in Britain and Beyond: Transitions and Transformations 9th January 2025\, Cardiff University
DESCRIPTION:Call for Papers\nMuslim Converts in Britain and Beyond: Transitions and Transformations \n9th January 2025\, Cardiff University \nThe Islam-UK Centre\, Cardiff University & MBRN (Muslims in Britain Research Network) invite submissions for academic papers and professional contributions to a one-day conference about Muslim converts in Europe.  This interdisciplinary conference is open to academic scholars\, non-academic professionals and practitioners\, and members of religious communities. \nWe will showcase contemporary research and practice in relation to Muslim converts in Britain\, and identify topics for future research and practice by addressing the following questions: \n\nWhat impact have British Muslim converts had on Muslim communities and wider British society?\nWhat resources do British Muslim converts use to create progress and change in their own lives\, and more widely?\nWhat are the challenges and needs faced by British Muslim converts in the contemporary context\, and how can research help to identify and address these?\n\n  \nState of knowledge \nOver the past 20 years\, conversion to Islam has captured the attention of academic scholars as well as practitioners and policy-makers from the criminal justice system\, health and social care\, religion professionals\, and the media. In many European societies\, conversion can be seen as controversial due to anti-Muslim prejudice and Islamophobia. For converts themselves\, whilst conversion can be a joyous and fulfilling experience\, it can also create tensions in their inter-personal relationships and in the wider public sphere\, including in education and the workplace (Vroon 2014). \nResearch in Britain\, and across Europe\, has tended to focus on conversion experiences and the challenges Muslim converts can encounter (Alyedreessy 2016; Brice 2010). Specifically\, conversion has been analysed in relation to: ethnicity\, race and racialisation (Moosavi 2015; Piela & Krotofil 2023); gender and sexuality (Suleiman 2013\, 2016; Van Nieuwkerk 2006); and\, incarceration and terrorism/counter-terrorism (Flower 2013; Mullins 2015). \nConversion to Islam in Europe is most often characterised as a sudden and radical move to a ‘foreign’ religion. In contrast to this popular characterisation\, research shows that conversion is a longer transformative process\, motivated by a spiritual quest involving cumulative knowledge acquisition and a gradual shift in identity boundaries (Al-Qwidi 2002; Midden 2023). Scholarly attention has also been paid to historical evidence of Britain’s early encounters with Muslims and conversion\, to counter such narratives (Ansari 2004; Gilliat-Ray 2010). Furthermore\, the extent to which converts are shaping a specifically British or European Islam has been conceptualised as the ‘indigenisation’ of Islam (Zebiri 2014). \nConvert Muslims have been described as ‘ambassadors of Islam’ in Europe (Van Es 2017). From this perspective\, White Muslim converts can act as ‘bridges’ between born Muslims from minority backgrounds and non-Muslim majority populations (Roald 2004; Suleiman 2013). However\, convert Muslim communities are ethnically diverse and a focus on whiteness can lead to further marginalisation of Muslim converts of other ethnic groups in both research and the practice of ‘convert care’ (Birt 2022). It is also important to note that converts’ positionality is complicated by colonial and historical legacies (Gallonier 2015). \nMore recently\, scholarly interest in conversion has shifted to examine life (long) after conversion. The ‘Transformational: Muslim Converts in British Life’ is one such study\, being conducted at the Islam-UK Centre Centre in collaboration with the Convert Muslim Foundation. This study aims to document and conceptualise the impact of leadership and changemaking activities of Muslim converts in Britain. \nConference Themes \nWe welcome contributions related to the following (non-exhaustive list of) themes: \n\nLeadership and changemaking among Muslim converts\nSecond or third generation of converts\nIntercultural integration\nConversion and Islamophobia\nConversion and social activism\nConverts’ politics\nConverts and (changing) religious authority\nConverts’ long-term spiritual journeys\nEvolved convert organisations\nGender\n‘Race’\, ethnicity and other dimensions of converts’ diversity\n(Media) narratives on conversion\nConversion and da‘wah cultures\nOther themes relevant to the conference questions\n\nSubmission guidelines \nPlease submit your abstract or description of your 15-minute presentation (300 words) addressing one or more of the conference questions\, along with a short bio (50 words) using this online form:  https://forms.office.com/e/bwKkwzHqDB \nThis call for papers will close on 31st October 2024. \nYou will be notified of acceptance by mid-November 2024. \nConference organisers \nCentre for the Study of Islam in the UK: Sophie Gilliat-Ray and Asma Khan \nMuslims in Britain Research Network:  Sariya Cheruvallil-Contractor; Laura Mora\, Qudra Goodall.
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