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Video of Panelists’ Presentations

“Creating Islamic Spaces and Places" NAAIMS 52nd Annual Conference

Thursday, October 19, 2023

 

Cosponsored By:

Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture

Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN

Welcoming Remarks: Philip Goff, Indiana University & 
Panel Session 1: Place-Making At The Margins
Chair/Discussant: Alisa Perkins, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI

  • Bouchra E. Mossmann (University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark): “Making the Arctic a Muslim Home: Strategies of Place-making in Northern Canada”
  • Lucy Ballard (Harvard University, Cambridge, MA): “Feeling Islam in Detroit City: Prophetic Neighborliness and the Making of a ‘Real’ Islamic Place”
  • Nazreen S. Bacchus (Farmingdale State College-State University of New York, SUNY): “Mobilizing for Islam: Community Organizing and Place-making in New York”

Panel Session 2: What is “Islamic Space?”
Chair/Discussant: Najib B. Hourani, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI

  •  Omar M. Ramahi (University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada): “Is there such A thing as ‘Islamic Space?’
  • Hazem Ziada (Emory University, Atlanta, GA): “Space for Religious Experience: Contemporary Synthesis?”
  • Salah D. Hassan (Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI): “A Paradoxical Place: The North American Mosque”

Keynote Address by Mahbub Rashid, Dean of School of Architecture & Design,
University of Kansas, KS: “Notes on the Social Production of ‘Islamic Spaces & Places’ ”

Panel Session 3: Muslim Spaces in Secular Places
Chair/Discussant: Siti Sarah Muwahidah, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

  • Krista Melanie Riley (Vanier College, Montreal, Canada): “A Space Just for You: The Role of a Prayer Room for Muslim Students in a Quebec College”
  • Rahimjon Abdugafurov (Macalester College, Saint Paul, MN): “Cultural and Institutional Dynamics: Shaping Uzbekistani Mosques in the United States”

Panel Session 4: Internment/Interment &Closing Remarks: Philip Goff, Indiana University
Chair/Discussant: Abdulkader Sinno, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN

  • Leila Tarakji (Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI): “Negotiating Muslim Identity and Occupying Empty Spaces in Samira Ahmed’s Internment”
  • Sharmin Sadequee (University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada): “Secular Populism and Disputes Over Islamic Green Burial in the American Public Sphere”
  • Muhammad Izzul Haq (McGill University, Quebec, Canada): “Marking New Face Creating New Space: The Establishment of a Refugee-Friendly Mosque”