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Dear colleagues, Some of you may be interested in the 2016 Cadbury programme, culminating in an international conference on 30 June-1 July at the Department for African Studies and Anthropology, University of Birmingham, on the theme 'Bodies of Text: Learning to be Muslim in West Africa'. The programme explores the practices, disciplines and debates through which West Africans learn to be Muslims. Focusing on the elaborate and complex systems of Islamic learning that have emerged in the region, we ask how knowledge about being Muslim is passed on and acquired through the circulation of ideas and texts, and through physical, emotional and social forms of discipline. In the often multi-religious and multi-ethnic societies of West Africa, how does one learn to be Muslim and differentiate oneself from non-Muslim others? And how does one develop a particular Islamic identity amongst many ways of being Muslim? For more information, see: http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/historycultures/departments/dasa/events/cadbury/index.aspx www.knowingeachother.com, #bodiesoftext or contact [log in to unmask] With best wishes, Dr Insa Nolte Reader, Department of African Studies and Anthropology University of Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK 'Knowing Each Other: Everyday religious encounters, social identities and tolerance in SW Nigeria" http://www.knowingeachother.com/ https://twitter.com/KEONigeria https://www.facebook.com/knowingeachotherNigeria