The Chair Islam, Pluralism and Globalization at UdeM will host a lecture tomorrow, March 7 2013, from 5 to 7 p.m., entitled: “Islamic unity in the age of ecumenism: Interpreting the importance of the World Muslim Congress” by Gavin Brockett (Wilfred Laurier University).
The full program is accessible on their website.

The Centre d’études ethniques des universités montréalaises (CEETUM) & The Chaire de recherche du Canada Islam, Pluralisme et Globalisation (CRC‐IPG) invite you to the following conference :

 Contemporary Islamic dynamics in Indonesia

 by Robert Hefner, Ph.D., Professor and Director of the Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs, Boston University

 Monday Dec. 17 2012, 3-5 p.m.

Université de Montréal – Pavillon Lionel Groulx – Room C‐2059

 Robert W. Hefner is professor of anthropology and director of the Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs (CURA) at Boston University, where he served as associate director from 1986‐2009. At CURA, he has directed the program on Islam and society since 1991; coordinated interdisciplinary educational programs on religion and world affairs; and is currently involved in research projects comparing responses to modern social change (“modernity”) in Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism.

Hefner has conducted research on Muslim culture, politics, and education since the mid‐1980s, and on the comparative sociology/anthropology of world religions for the past thirty years. He has directed some 15 major research projects, and organized 11 international conferences. Recent projects have examined shari`a law and citizenship in eight Muslim majority countries (2008‐2010); the culture and politics of Muslim education (2005‐2007); the prospects for and the politics of civil democratic Muslim politics (2002‐2004); and social resources for civility and participation in the deeply plural societies of Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia (1999‐2001). Hefner has authored or edited fifteen books, as well as seven major policy reports for the U.S. government and private policy foundations. Five of his books have been translated into Indonesian.

During 2009‐2010, Hefner serves as the elected president of the Association for Asian Studies, the largest professional association for Asian studies in the world. During 2008‐2009, he was invited by Stanford University and the National University of Singapore to be the first Lee Kong Chian Fellow in Southeast Asian Studies. Hefner was also invited to be editor for the sixth volume of the forthcoming New Cambridge History of Islam, Muslims and Modernity: Society and Culture since 1800. He has also served as member of the advisory committee to two SSRC projects, the “Religious Lives of Migrant Minorities” and “Religion in International Relations”; as an advisor to a project on “religionification” in Southeast Asia at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris (2009‐2010); and as an invited Senior Professor in the Summer Graduate Program on Religion, Culture, and Society at the University Centre‐St. Ignatius, University of Antwerp, Belgium (2007‐2009).

Hi friends! This Tuesday the IIS will host it’s second Brown Bag Lunch Talk.  The speaker will be Professor Khalid Medani who will discuss “Understanding the Challenges and Prospects of another Popular Intifada in Sudan in the Context of the Arab Uprisings.” The talk begins at 1. Come one, come all!

The African Studies Seminar Series Presents Khalid Mustafa Medani: “Political Order and State Dissolution: The Politics of Informal Markets in and Islamism in State Formation and State Collapse in Sudan and Somalia”

Thursday, November 22nd, 2012 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.

For event details and registration information please click here.