Sunday, September 17, 2006

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

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