September 19th: "Islam in Australia" Seminar

Date: Tuesday, September 19th 2006
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: Lecture Theatre, Chancellor Hall, UBD
Open To: Public
Fees:

• $30 for government officials
• $20 for the public
• $10 for students

All About The Speaker:
Professor Dr Michael Humphrey

• Professor in Anthropology in the School of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of New South Wales
• One of the most published academics on the subject of Islam in Australia

Talk About:

• Formation of the Muslim community through migration
• Multi-ethnic character of Muslim organisations and communities
• Background of their social experience of marginality
• Their relationship to the dominant culture
• Ways Australian Muslims practise their faith
• How areas of conflicts of laws have been managed in the Family Court
• Processes of transnationalisation of the Muslim identity in the second generation
• Growing trend of constructing cultural identity against global events
• Significant shift from 'diaspora Islam' to 'globalised Islam'

For further information, please contact IPISHOAS at 246 1003 (ext 1434/1640) or email to dakwah@ipishoas.ubd.edu.bn or visit UBD official website