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Conference Announcement: Female Visions: The Religious Visual Culture of Contemporary Female Islamic Mysticism, Oct. 16-18, 2020

Conference Announcement: Female Visions: The Religious Visual Culture of Contemporary Female Islamic Mysticism , Oct. 16-18, 2020


by Sara Kuehn

With apologies for cross-posting:


Female Visions: The Religious Visual Culture of Contemporary Female Islamic Mysticism
International Conference


Fri 16 Oct, 2020 - Sun 18 Oct, 2020

Drawing on recent research regarding the visual-material turn in the study of religion, this interdisciplinary conference will focus on the often-overlooked role of women in contemporary Islamic mysticism and in the socially-engaged dimension of Sufi belief and practice. This trend in visual-material studies has been accompanied by a broadening of analytical perspectives. Attention is now increasingly paid to religious practices, rituals, and discourses in terms of their connection to certain types of artefacts. Scholars have also begun to focus on the sensory perceptions and the social effects or atmospheres evoked by visual-material engagements. The conference focusses on the sensorium in visual-material culture and on its religious, cultural, and social connections/ implications. In doing so, we hope to present a more nuanced and polyvocal understanding of the role and place of women within mystical Islam and Sufism, a tradition that is in constant dialogue with society and its political, cultural, and economic dynamics.

Conference organized by Christian Ströbele (Academy of the Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart, Germany) & Sara Kuehn (Marie Curie Fellow at the Institut d’ethnologie méditerranéenne, européenne et comparative (IDEMEC), Aix-Marseille/CNRS, and at the Centre for Islamic Theology (ZITH), University of Tübingen) in collaboration with Erdal Toprakyaran (ZITH, University of Tübingen) & Dionigi Albera (IDEMEC, Aix-Marseille/CNRS), with the financial support of the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 794958 (SufiVisual).

Conference open to the public. Online live participation free of charge. Registration available at: http://www.akademie-rs.de/vanm_23429

Concurrent Artwork Presentation with Video and Sound Installations:

https://www.akademie-rs.de/themen/themenuebersicht/aktuell/female-visions-art-works/

Further details are to be found on the conference website: https://www.akademie-rs.de/visions

Conference Program

https://www.akademie-rs.de/fileadmin/user_upload/download_archive/interreligioeser-dialog/2020_Mystic/Female_Visions_2020_10.pdf



Friday, 16 October 2020

12:30 Registration and Lunch / Coffee
14:30 Welcome and Introduction
Opening Remarks from Sara Kuehn (Aix-Marseille/Tübingen)
Artwork Presentation. Video and Sound Installations
Dionigi Albera (Aix-Marseille) and Meliha Teparić (Sarajevo)

15:00 Panel 1 Chair and Discussant: Erdal Toprakyaran (Tübingen)
Stillness in the Eye of the Storm: Mira Burke
and the Performance of Spiritual Ecstasy
Amila Buturović (Toronto)
Break
Gender and Sufism: Hindu Sindhi Women and the
Transmission of the Sufi Legacy in India
Michel Boivin (Paris)
Reflections from the Visual World of Zöhre Ana
Mark Soileau (Ankara)

17:30 Public Speech and Q&A:
Kadıncık Ana’s Visions for Women
Gülizar Cengiz (Cologne)
19:00 Dinner
20:00 Public Speech and dhikr
Female Mysticism and the Image of Humanity
Fawzia Al-Rawi Al-Rifai (Vienna)



Saturday, 17 October 2020

09:30 Panel 2 Chair and Discussant: Esther Voswinckel Filiz (Istanbul)
Colours and Visions: A Hybrid of Sufi Mysticism and Science
Pnina Werbner (Manchester)
Ziyāra and Feminine Harīm in Post-Socialist Albania: The
Case of Dervishe Hatixhe’s Grave in Tirana
Gianfranco Bria (Rome)
11:00 Break

11:30 Panel 3 Chair and Discussant: Debora Müller (Tübingen)
The Female Caliphate: The Qur’ān, Female Voices and
Gender Dynamics in Present-Day Sufism
Yunus Hentschel (Vienna)
Learning Adab, Becoming Muslim: Women within the Global

Networks of Islamic Education
Ezgi Güner (Istanbul)
13:00 Lunch

14:00 Panel 4 Chair and Discussant: Christian Ströbele (Stuttgart/Tübingen)
Wrapping Body, Voice, and Self: Female Chanters in the
Fayḍa Tijāniyya Sufi Community in Senegal
Joseph Hill (Alberta)
The Visionary Female Guarding of Turkish Cultural Heritage:
The Case of the Turkish Rifai Shaykha Samiha Ayverdi
Feyza Burak-Adli (Chicago)
15:30 Break

16:00 Panel 5 Chair and Discussant: Dionigi Albera (Aix-Marseille)
‘A Real-Life Jātaka Tale’: Seeking Inspiration from the Life of
Pīrzadi-Shahīda Noor-un-Nisa Inayat Khan
Sara Kuehn (Aix-Marseille/Tübingen)
Mapping the Vision: Sufi Dream Guidance in Contemporary Afghanistan
Annika Schmeding (Boston)
Break
The Visual Culture of Sufi Mysticism in the Works of Female Artists
Meliha Teparić (Sarajevo) and Rosana Ratkovčić (Zagreb)
18:30 Dinner

20:00 Public Speech and Q&A:
‘The Ocean Inside the Womb': The Spiritual Transmission that
Flows through the Veins of the Tariqas of Islam Comes to the
West Challenging Some of the Old Cultural Stereotypes
Amina Teslima al-Jerrahi (Mexico City)
21:00 Womanhood as a Metaphysical Concept
Dilek Güldütuna (Frankfurt)
The Meaning of Motherhood in Taṣawwuf
Cemalnur Sargut (Istanbul)



Sunday, 18 October 2020

09:30 Panel 6 Chair and Discussant: Ruggero Vimercati Sanseverino (Tübingen)
Female Sufi Scholars in Mauritania: Visions of Pious Women
Britta Frede (Bayreuth)
Holy Women in the Early Twentieth-Century Red Sea Region:
Spatial Spheres, Travelling Images
Silvia Bruzzi (Padova)
11:00 Break

11:30 Panel 7 Chair and Discussant: Hilary Mooney (Weingarten)
A Matriarch Amongst Patriarchs: Female Leadership in a
Non-Reformed Sufi Order in Contemporary Pakistan
Aliya Iqbal (Karachi) and Hasan Ali Khan (Karachi)
Progressive-Pluralist Sufi Heritage, New Mediatization and
Female Artists in Sindh, Pakistan
Rafique Wassan (Bern)
13:00 Lunch

14:30 Public Speech and Q&A:
Being a Woman on Earth
H. Nur Artıran (Istanbul)
Women and the Prophetic Way
Fariha Fatima al-Jerrahi (New York)
16:15 Closing Remarks
from Pnina Werbner (Manchester)
and Christian Ströbele (Stuttgart/Tübingen)








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