Sadiya Ahmed
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Everyday Muslim Symposium
Saturday 31st January 2015, at Bishopsgate Institute, London.
Last Call for Papers Performers and Artists
Dear Friends and Colleagues
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We have had a tremendous response to our call for papers/performances and have decided to extend the time for the symposium from 3pm to 5pm.
This
one-day symposium, organised by the Khizra Foundation in partnership with
Bishopsgate Institute, is dedicated to exploring constructions of Muslim
heritage in the UK. It aims to bring together those working across various
sectors to interrogate the changing ways in which everyday Muslim life has been
represented and archived. It seeks to ask how the process of constructing a
Muslim heritage has changed over the years and looks forward to possible forms
that this might take in the future. We welcome 15-minute papers/ responses
on any aspect of Muslim heritage in the UK. We are keen to capture a wide range
of voices across a number of different sectors and therefore welcome papers, as
well as exhibition ideas and performance ideas. All responses,
both academic and creative responses should focus on British Muslim
identity.
Topics may include, but are not restricted to:
· reflections
on the current state of British Muslim heritage today
· the
shift in categorisation from ethnicity (e.g. Asian, Arab) to ‘Muslim’
· museum
and archive collecting policies and their impacts on representation and
self-identity
· representations
of the diversity of the Muslim community
· opportunities
and challenges of establishing a centralised archive of British Muslim life
· creating
, using and accessing archives
· existing
projects/archives on British Muslim identity
· the
legacy of a British Muslim archive and its contemporary relevance
· the
impact of inter-faith and inter-racial relations on British Muslim identity
· Muslim
narratives and Muslim figures in the UK National Curriculum
Interested participants should send an abstract (maximum 300 words) and a short biography to [log in to unmask] by Friday 31 October 2014.
For more information about the project: http://www.everydaymuslim.org/#!about/c1va9
For attendance please book your free place:
http://www.bishopsgate.org.uk/event/525/Everyday-Muslim-Symposium?&Keyword=Keyword&TypeID=