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SIAS Summer Institute 2005-2006:"Hierarchy, Marginality, and Ethnicity

in Muslim Societies (7th Century to the Second World War)" /

August 8 - 19, 2005, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany /

July 31 - August 11, 2006, National Humanities Center, Research Triangle

Park, North Carolina / Application Deadline: 18 February, 2005 / For
more

information, please contact:

SIAS Summer Institutes

Katharina Wiedemann

Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin

Wallotstrasse 19

D-14193 Berlin, Germany

Tel.: +49 30 / 89001 - 117

Fax: +49 30 / 89001 - 100

Email: [log in to unmask]

Visit the website at

http://www.wiko-berlin.de/kolleg/projekte/eayssi/ausschreibsecrel?hpl=2

Ethnicity in Muslim Societies (7th Century to the Second World War)

Conveners:

Gudrun Krämer, Professor of Islamic Studies, Institute for Islamic

Studies, Free University, Berlin

Mark R. Cohen, Professor of Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University

The SIAS Summer Institutes are designed to support the development of

scholarly networks and collaborative projects among young scholars from

Europe and the United States. The program seeks to explore theoretical,

methodological, and empirical issues, promote the integration of

approaches and interpretations from various disciplines into the

participants & research, review the state of research in that
discipline,

and identify promising areas for further research.

Each institute will accommodate twenty participants and will meet twice,

once in Europe and once in the United States . Participants will present

their research and collaborate on new projects at the seminars and
between

the two meetings. Participants will be expected to attend both meetings.

The program will provide stipends and cover travel and lodging costs for

both the European and the American meetings. The institutes are open to

Ph.D.candidates and scholars who have received a Ph.D. since 1999.



Moving beyond the approach of majority-minority relations, with its
focus

on tolerance versus intolerance, this Institute will attempt, to

understand how Muslim societies, with all their complexity and

multiplicity of subgroups, worked, sometimes with conflict, often
without.

Its premise is that interrelated concepts from anthropology and
sociology

- hierarchy, marginality, and ethnicity - can be applied to the history
of

Muslim societies with profitable results.

Within this theoretical framework, the Institute encourages applicants
in

a variety of fields, including anthropology, history, sociology, legal

studies, literature, philosophy, and theology. Themes could include, for

example, notions of purity and impurity; intermarriage; dietary laws;

dress codes; physical as well as social and economic mobility; spatial

patterns of living; conviviality; conflict; inter-communal ties;

interaction of laws and courts; presence or absence of corporate

organization; cultural embeddedness of non-Muslims; shared or parallel

venues for learning; artistic borrowing; impact of modernization; shared

or entangled histories.

We would like to extend the geographical and cultural range of our
inquiry

beyond the historical core region of the Islamic world by including
other

Muslim societies, notably on the Indian subcontinent and in Southeast

Asia. We would also like to include themes dealing with non-Muslims
other

than Jews and Christians.

Cross-posted from:

WUNRN

http://www.wunrn.com

H-Gender-MidEast




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