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One Day Conference at Schomburg Center

The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (Harlem, New York) is hosting a conference on “Globalizing Mystical Islam: Exploring the Murid Diaspora in North America and Europe”, convened by Professor Cheikh Anta Babou, on May 24th, 2008 starting 9:00 am.
Co-organized by the Murid Islamic Community in America; sponsored by the African Studies Center of the University of Pennsylvania and the Institute of African Studies of Columbia University.
The conference comes in straight line with the closing ceremony of the exposition on Sufi Urban Arts in Senegal
Internationally acclaimed professors, historians, anthropologists, sociologists and specialists of Sufi Islam, will be presenting research papers on Islam and Globalization and on the dynamics of the Muridiyya brotherhood (Past, Present and Future), its religious aspects in global terms and perspectives.
 
 

  Globalizing Mystical Islam: Exploring the Murid Diaspora in Europe and North America.
 
 
                     Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
 515 Malcolm X Boulevard (at West 136 street) New York
                                  
                                     Conference Program
                                               
9:00-9:15   Registration and Breakfast Reception
9:15-9:30   Greetings and Opening Remarks by Imam Bachir Lo
 
                           Morning Sessions
9:30-12:30: Multiple Spaces, Multiple Strategies: Murid Disciples in the Global Public Sphere.
                      Victoria Ebin, Population Reference Bureau in Washington DC
                 Documenting the Murids’ Arrival in New York City: Perspectives from the 1980s.
                 Mbaye Lo, Duke University
                Contextualizing Muridiyya within the American Muslim Communities: Perspectives on Past, Present and Future.
                 Emma Nesper, UCLA
                  Digital Disciples, Virtual Piety and Mediated Knowledge: An Analysis of the  Murid Migration into Cyberspace.
         Ellen Foley, Clark University
         Hôpital Matlaboul Fawzaini: How the Murid Diaspora is Remaking the Medical
         Landscape in Senegal.
                    Chair: Mamadou Diouf, Columbia University
12:30-2:00  lunch break
                                         
                                                    Afternoon sessions
2:00-3:30   Emerging Patterns of Globalization: Symbols and Discourses
                 Eric Ross, Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco
                 Touba: Global City
                 Mamaram Seck, University of Florida
                 The Murid discourse Here and There, Then and Now.
                 Cheikh A. Babou, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
                 Globalizing the Muridiyya: Sheikh Abdoulaye Dieye and the Khidmatul Khadim International Sufi School.
                 Chair: Muhammad Abdu Rahman, the Islamic Research Institute, and the Graduate Theological Foundation.
3:30-5:00 Inserting the Local into the Global: Implications for Gender and Generations
                    Dinah Hannaford, Emory University
                Exploring Alternate Social Networks: the Role of the Dahira in Northern Italy.
                    Beth Buggenhagen, Indiana University
               Global Circuits of Senegalese Muslims and Women’s Search for Religious Merit.
                    Erin Augis, Ramapo College, New Jersey
               Dakar's Sunnite women: The Dialectic of Submission and Defiance in a Globalizing City.
                   Chair: Sylviane Diouf, Schomburg Center
7:00 Reception for the participants
                      For more information contact the conference organizer Cheikh A. Babou, cheikh@sas.upenn.edu or the coordinator Sidy A. Ndiaye sidyn@yahoo.com
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Date Posted: 5/1/2008
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