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<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Islam and Enlightenment</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>A two-day workshop organised jointly by the Centre
for Asian and Middle Eastern Architecture (CAMEA), The University of Adelaide,
and the School of Historical Studies, The University of Melbourne.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>University of Melbourne, 25-26 September
2008</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Traditional scholarship mapped the Enlightenment
as a uniquely European experience, but recent scholarship has revealed the
eighteenth century as a period of axial change across the world. The
relativisation of cultural systems, the unseating of religious certainty, the
development of civic publics, and the rapid advance of technological innovation
marked the leading European societies of this period. But these developments
unfolded within, and were in many ways dependent upon a context of global trade
and exchange. Expanding interest in non-European ideas, religions and
techniques, the increase in mobility, and ultimately the colonization of
societies outside Europe, brought ever greater contact. Nowhere was this more
evident than in relation to the Muslim world which overlapped with Europe at its
borders and in many areas into which Europeans were moving. The great empires of
Islam dominated much of the world at the beginning of the century, and Europeans
often built upon long-established Muslim trading networks.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>What was the nature of the exchange between these
two worlds in transformation? What did the Enlightenment mean to Muslims of the
period, and what did Islam mean to the Enlightenment? This workshop will map out
directions for developing this rich area of study. Possible topics might include
(but are not limited to):</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>- Muslim travellers in Europe and European
travellers in the Muslim<SPAN class=099482912-12022008> </SPAN>world</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>- The role of intermediary groups and
minorities</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>- Cultural, intellectual and technical
borrowings</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>- Global trade and consumption</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>- Exchange in mixed and border
societies</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>- Print culture and the public sphere</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>- The coffee house and secular urban
culture</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>- Leisure gardens and the culture of urban
recreation</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>- Postal systems and the culture of
correspondence</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>- Gender issues in transforming
urbanity</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>- Philosophical challenges and
continuities</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>- Religious challenges and continuities</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>- Shared and parallel modernities</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>For further information or to submit your 250 word
proposal and one-page CV, please contact:</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Samer Akkach:
samer.akkach@adelaide.edu.au</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Ian Coller: icoller@unimelb.edu.au</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Deadlines</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>14 March 2008 Short abstract: 250-word abstract
together with<SPAN class=099482912-12022008> </SPAN>one-page CV</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>16 May 2008 Extended abstract (900-1000 word
summary)</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>25 Sep. 2008 Full papers to be collected and
reviewed for</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>post-workshop publication</FONT></P>
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