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NEGOTIATING TECHNOLOGIES A MUSA Workshop organized in collaboration with CEIAS, Paris & the Centre of South Asian Studies, Cambridge 14 & 15 October 2016 Adrian House Seminar Room, Trinity College, Grange Road (opposite Trinity's Old field Sports Ground) Cambridge
OCTOBER 14 10am-1030am Registration & Introductory Remarks 1030am-12pm Panel 1: Gender and the Private Sphere Kathryn Zyskowski University of Washington Akanksha Awal University of Oxford Sadaf Jaffer Stanford University
Negotiating Pardah, New Technologies and Jobs in Hyderabad, India Attitude, Character, and Personality: Muslim Women use Phones, Scarves, and Scooties in western Uttar Pradesh Good Beyond God: Pakistani Atheist Women Online 12pm-2pm Lunch
2pm-4pm Panel 2: Religious Authority and Faith Hira Amin University of Cambridge Ali Altaf Mian Seattle University Sumbul Farah University of Delhi
Religious authority and the internet in the South Asian diaspora in Britain Troubling technologies: the regulation of modern media in Deobandi orthodoxy Adab in the Digital Realm: Navigating Virtual Spaces Ethically
Nuaiman Keeprath Andru Technologies of the Pious Muslim Self: Religion and University of Media Infrastructure among Muslims of Malabar, Hyderabad/Freie University South India Berlin 4pm-4:30pm Tea
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4:30pm-6pm Panel 3: New Media Mohammad Reyaz MMA Jauhar Academy of Technology, Media and Minority: The Role of Internet International Studies, Jamia in Mainstreaming of Muslims in India Millia Islamia The Appropriation: The Impact of the Islamic Rituparna Das Techno India University, Religious Mobile Apps in the Formation Of Kolkata Contemporary Muslim Culture Muhamamd Ashraf T. & Negotiating Secularism: The Cyberspace of Kerala Ayoob Rahman Muslims University of Hyderabad
OCTOBER 15 10am-1130am Panel 4: Activism, Protest, and Resistance Aasim Khan King’s College London Ajmal Khan Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai Ayoob Rahman & Muhammad Ashraf T. University of Hyderabad
Identity, Minority Rights and the Internet. The changing political imagination and practice of ‘communications rights’ in India State, modernity, nuclear energy and Muslims in India: A Case Study of Protest Movement against the Japitapur Nuclear Power Plant in Maharashtra, India Constructing Counter Space: Social Media and Muslim Students’ Politics in India 1130am-12pm Tea
12pm-1:30pm Panel 5: Intimacy, Love, and Sex Anna-Maria Walter Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich Johannes Rosenbaum University of Bamberg Patrick Clibbens University of Oxford
(Pre)Marital Intimacy through Mobile Space: Women’s Appropriation of Mobile Telephony and the Negotiation of Moral Concepts in Gilgit-Baltistan The Printed Counsellor. Advice manuals and the propagation of the loving couple Rejuvenating the Nation: Sexology, Traditional Medicine and Nationalism in the Career of M. A. Ansari (1880-1936)
1:30pm-3:30pm Lunch & Plenary
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