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<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Dear list members</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Please note that the deadline for receiving
abstracts for the following workshop has been extended till 31 March
2008.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Associate Professor Samer Akkach<BR>Founding
Director, Centre for Asian and Middle Eastern Architecture (CAMEA)<BR>The
University of Adelaide, SA 5005, AUSTRALIA</FONT></P>
<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=599181305-19032008>
</SPAN>world<BR></FONT><FONT face=Garamond size=4>- The role of intermediary
groups and minorities<BR></FONT><FONT face=Garamond size=4>- Cultural,
intellectual and technical borrowings<BR></FONT><FONT face=Garamond size=4>-
Global trade and consumption<BR></FONT><FONT face=Garamond size=4>- Exchange in
mixed and border societies<BR></FONT><FONT face=Garamond size=4>- Print culture
and the public sphere<BR></FONT><FONT face=Garamond size=4>- The coffee house
and secular urban culture<BR></FONT><FONT face=Garamond size=4>- Leisure gardens
and the culture of urban recreation<BR></FONT><FONT face=Garamond size=4>-
Postal systems and the culture of correspondence<BR></FONT><FONT face=Garamond
size=4>- Gender issues in transforming urbanity<BR></FONT><FONT face=Garamond
size=4>- Philosophical challenges and continuities<BR></FONT><FONT face=Garamond
size=4>- Religious challenges and continuities<BR></FONT><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: <A
href="mailto:samer.akkach@adelaide.edu.au">samer.akkach@adelaide.edu.au</A><BR></FONT><FONT
face=Garamond size=4>Ian Coller: <A
href="mailto:icoller@unimelb.edu.au">icoller@unimelb.edu.au</A><BR></FONT><FONT
face=Garamond size=4></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>Deadlines</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Garamond size=4>31 March 2008 Short abstract: 250-word abstract
together with<SPAN class=599181305-19032008> </SPAN>one-page CV<BR></FONT><FONT
face=Garamond size=4>16 May 2008 Extended abstract (900-1000 word summary)
<BR>25 Sep. 2008 Full papers to be collected and reviewed for<SPAN
class=599181305-19032008> </SPAN>post-workshop publication</FONT></P>
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