[Bilimsel Haber] Women, Rituals and Ceremonies In Contemporary Muslim Communities and Islamic World, (Ascona, Switzerland) 8-10 June 2007

[Onur Inal]

Women, Rituals and Ceremonies In Contemporary Muslim Communities and
Islamic World

Women, Rituals and Ceremonies In Contemporary Muslim Communities and
Islamic World Centro Incontri Umani (Ascona, Switzerland) 8-10 June 2007

Convenor:
Dr.Pedram Khosronejad
(Junior research Fellow, St. Antony¹s College, University of Oxford)

8 June:
Welcome: Prof. Dr Angela Hobart, (Lugano University and London
University Goldsmiths College and UCL); Director Centro Incontri Umani,
Switzerland
Film Projection (Monte Verita) (21.00)

Standard bearers of Hussein, Women commemorating Karbala
A film by Ingvild Flaskerud
2003 35 min

9 June:
First Panel (Chair : Angela Hobart)
1- Mary Elaine Hegland (Santa Clara University, USA) (9.30-10.30)
(Women's Moharram Practices: Expanding Opportunities in an Iranian
Village)
2- Faegheh Shirazi (University of Texas at Austin, USA) (10.30-11.30)
(The Sofreh: Comfort and Community Among Women in Iran)
3- Sabine Kalinock (University of Frankfurt, Germany) (11.45-12.45) 
('Arus-e Qoraysh Ritual of Iranian Women: Fieldwork on Women's Ritual in
Iran)

Second Panel: (Chair: Mary Elaine Hegland)
4- Sawsan Karimi (Kingdom of Bahrain) (14.30-15.30)
(Home-ethnography of Women's Death Rituals in Bahrain)
5- Su Min (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) (15.30-16.30)
(Remaking Pure Muslim Women: The Choice of lamentation and the
Representation of Filial Piety After the Religious Reform of Islam)
6- Pedram Khosronejad (University of Oxford, UK) (16.45-17.45)
(The Missing: Spiritual and Personal Loss in Bakhtiari Female
Lamentation)

10 June:
Third Panel: (Chair: Prof. Ellen Hertz, Directrice Institut d'ethnologie
Université de Neuchâtel)
7- Patricia Kelly Spurles (Mount Allison University, Canada)
(9.30-10.30)
(Henna practices, gender and Islam in the life course in Marrakesh)
8- Ingvild Flaskerud (University of Tromsø, Norway) (10.30-11.30)
(Negotiating Ritual Participation and Performance A Multicultural
Experience)
9- Anna Neubauer (University of Neuchätel, Switzerland) (11.45-12.45)
(Methodological implications of the Researcher's Gender and Religion:
Reflexions on Fieldwork with Sufi Women in Istanbul)
10 Miriam Ali De Unzaga (University of Oxford, UK) (12.45-13.45)
(Female weaving Rituals in Morroco)
Conclusion of conference (Centro Incontri Umani) (16.00)
Film Projection (Monte Verita) (18.00)
The Procession of the Captives: a Shiite Tragedy
A film by Sabrina Mervin
2006 54 min

For more information regarding this program, please visit these
websites: http://www.ciu-ascona.org/a-eng/Activities/Actual.html
http://www.anthropology-iran.org/forumsource/genderstudies/default.aspx
For participating at this event, please contact:
Madame Laura Simona : giovanni.simona at asp.ti-edu.ch
Centro Incontri Umani
http://www.ciu-ascona.org/index.html
Monte Verita
http://www.monteverita.org/splash.cfm

-- 
Dr.Pedram KHOSRONEJAD, Junior Research Fellow at The Middle East Centre
St.Antony's College, University of Oxford. Oxford OX2 6JF UK.Tel: + 44
(0) 07981690906, Fax: + 44 (0)1865-278190
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~orin0179/