[csaa-forum] Amina Wadud 'Islam and Gender Reform' UTS, 24 February

[Tanja Dreher]

[Apologies for cross-posting; please circulate widely through your networks]

UTS:IOSARN Public Lecture Invitation

The Indian Ocean and South Asia Research Network (IOSARN) is pleased to announce a Public Lecture by

Amina Wadud
Visiting scholar at the University of Melbourne

“Islam and Gender Reform”

Wednesday, 24 February
6 for 6.30 pm (Drinks from 6 pm)
UTS Building 2, Level 4, Room 4.11 (enter via main tower entrance)
Free Lecture

Abstract:
By the beginning of the 21st century Muslim women reached a critical mass, participating in all levels of social political activity and speaking for themselves in a wide range of matters, religious, spiritual, and intellectual.  There are distinctive voices amongst these speakers but all with the single mandate, to participate fully in what it means to be Muslim, what it means to be a servant of Allah and especially in self definining their own identity. This self recognized identity takes many forms in context as diverse as European Muslim minorities and established Muslim majority nation-states.  This lecture will provide some of the background to these developments, and compare the perspectives of the various players, from Muslim secularists, Islamists, Muslim feminists and Islamic feminists.  It will present some of the competing arguments to consider their relationship to each other and how they build upon Islam itself as the means for Muslim women’s liberation and equality.

About Amina Wadud:
Professor Amina Wadud is a visiting scholar at University of Melbourne teaching and intensive course on Islam, Gender and Reform.  She has been one of the lead intellectuals in Islamic gender reform on the basis of her gender inclusive analysis of the sacred text and her combining scholarship and activism.  She has traveled to more than 40 countries with her scholarly works translated into at least 10 languages.  She has retired from full time academic in order to travel more and to devote more time to consultation on gender issues in Islam and human rights.

Please RSVP to: Cornelia.Betzler at uts.edu.au<https://webmail.adsroot.uts.edu.au/owa/UrlBlockedError.aspx>

See you there!

Cornelia Betzler
Administration and Communications Officer I Transforming Cultures Research Centre
Project Officer I Indian Ocean & South Asia Research Network
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
University of Technology, Sydney | PO Box 123, Broadway, NSW 2007 | Australia
Ph.: +61 2 9514 2768
www.tfc.uts.edu.au<http://www.tfc.uts.edu.au/>
www.iosarn.com<http://www.tfc.uts.edu.au/>

UTS CRICOS Provider Code:  00099F
DISCLAIMER: This email message and any accompanying attachments may contain confidential information.  If you are not the intended recipient, do not
read, use, disseminate, distribute or copy this message or attachments.  If
you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately
and delete this message. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender expressly, and with authority,
states them to be the views of the University of Technology Sydney. Before
opening any attachments, please check them for viruses and defects.

Think. Green. Do.

Please consider the environment before printing this email.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.cdu.edu.au/pipermail/csaa-forum/attachments/20100214/5ae2dc18/attachment.html