NATION, CITIZENSHIP AND BELONGING – ASSOCIATION OF MUSLIM SOCIAL SCIENTISTS OF NORTH AMERICA (AMSS)

5TH CANADIAN REGIONAL CONFERENCE

Co sponsored by the

MULSIM STUDIES OPTION PROGRAM COMMITTEE

NATION, CITZENSHIP AND BELONGING: MUSLIM CULTURAL POLITICS IN CANADA

May 21, 2009

Wilfrid Laurier University
Waterloo, Ontario

9am-6pm

Senate and Board Chambers and Paul Martin Centre

Muslims figure prominently in contemporary debates that shape our national consciousness and public policies from the Maher Arar case, security certificate detainees, the arrests of Muslim youth in Toronto on alleged charges of ‘home grown terror’, racial and religious profiling and the debates over shariah tribunals in Ontario to Quebec’s questions of ‘reasonable accommodation’, the banning of Islamic headscarves in soccer and face veils at the voting polls and xenophobic “Citizens Codes.” The Canadian Muslim diaspora is a complex, contradictory and hybrid space filled with a mix of liberatory possibilities and productive tensions that create the terrain for a distinctly “Canadian Islam’. This conference seeks to explore these issues that are shaping the Canadian social, political and cultural landscape and the field of Muslim studies in Canada.

LUNCHEON KEYNOTE 1PM:
YASMIN JIWANI (Concordia University)
“Doubling Discourses and the Muslim Other”

FILM SCREENING AND DISCUSSION 4PM
with
Zarqa Nawaz
(Filmmaker and Creator of Little Mosque on the Prairie)

CONFERENCE THEMES INCLUDE:

• Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Faith Based Arbitration in Ontario
• Arab-Canadian Migration, Transnationalism & Integration in a Globalized World
• Diasporic Ruptures and Possibilities: Education, Youth and Identity
• Gender, War and Performativity: Canadian Responses
• Liberalism and Muslim Cultural Politics in Canada

REGISTRATION IS FREE

LUNCHEON AND KEYNOTE TICKETS $10.00

PLEASE RSVP: amsscanada@yahoo.ca

Conference Co-Chairs: Meena Sharfy-Funk (Religion and Culture) & Jasmin Zine (Sociology/AMSS Board)

Tags: AMSS, CITIZENSHIP, SOCIAL SCIENTISTS

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