On the 14th and 15th December, the II Seminar Islam 2.0: “Continue, break, rework: The Islamic tradition on the 21st century” will take place in Granada, at the Euroarab Foundation. This seminar is organised in the frame of the R+D+i Project Islam 2.0: Cultural and religious signs of mediterranean societies in transformation – ALAM2.0 and Euroarab Foundation.

The II Seminar “Islam 2.0” that will take place in Granada on the 14th and 15th December, proposes a critical reflection around four elements that, within their islamic expression, have conditioned the social transformation of the Mediterranean space: authority, community, gender and language.

Throughout the different sessions, the seminar will analyze, in a diachronic and intersectional manner, all these ideas; and also all the polítical, social and cultural appearances that are determined by them, to the extent that they will condition new subjectivities and hierarchies in both an Islam of majorities and minorities.

This seminar in December continues the work undertaken in the I Seminar “Islam 2.0. Identities in transit in the Mediterranean: analytical categories for their study", that was held at the Autonomous University of Madrid in 2015.

The Seminar will develop the following sessions:

  • Muslims and Muslim community: How long?
  • The imam as an intermediary? Reflections on the Islamic religious authority and the role of the imam in the Spanish public sphere.
  • Feminized nation, imagined nation: Palestinian identity and motherland.
  • Language and translation: From the Spanish colonization of Morocco to The foreign daughter by Najat El Hachmi.
  • Language policy in Morocco 2.0: continuities or ruptures in the management of the varieties of Arabic?
  • Application of Islamic law in communities of Muslim migrants in Spain: from linguistic problems to legal problems.
  • Narrative diglossias: Reflections on the actuality of an evanescent conflict.
  • Post-orientalism as a theoretical framework: possibilities and limitations from the analysis of the Maghrebi intellectual discourse.

The Seminar makes part of the formative offer of the non oficial Master’s Degree offered by the University of Granada and the Euroarab Foundation: “Islam Today: Trends of Islamic Thought and the Management of Coexistence and Diversity”. 

The Seminar makes part of the formative offer of the non oficial Master’s Degree offered by the University of Granada and the Euroarab Foundation: “Islam Today: Trends of Islamic Thought and the Management of Coexistence and Diversity”. 

The previous registration will be made by email to: iexcul.uamatgmail.com.

Organising Committee:

  • Elena Arigita Maza, assistant professor of Arab Studies (UGR).
  • Laura Galián Hernández, postdoctoral researcher of Arab and Islamic Studies.

Scientific Committee:

  • Gonzalo Fernández Parrilla, Coordinator of the Master’s Degree in Contemporary Arab and Islamic Studies.
  • Luz Gómez García, principal researcher  of the R+D+i Project “Islam 2.0: Cultural and religious signs of mediterranean societies in transformation” (FFI2014-54667-R).
  • Miguel Ángel Manzano Rodríguez, responsible researcher for the GIR ESARIS, IEMYRhd of the USAL.
  • Rafael Ortega Rodrigo, director of the non-official Master’s Degree offered by the University of Granada and the Euroarab Foundation: “Islam Today: Trends of Islamic Thought and the Management of Coexistence and Diversity”.  

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