Global Halal Conference — Michigan State University, East Lansing (États-Unis), 19-21/02/2015
Global Halal Conference
Program (Feb. 19-21)
Michigan State University
Thursday, February 19, 2015
3:30 – 4:00 – Welcoming/opening remarks (303 International Center)
4:00 – 5:30 – Panel 1: Re-imagining Muslimness in Diaspora
Aliyah Khan
Good Muslims, Bad Muslims, and the Secret of the New York White Sauce
Achmat Salie
Halaaloween
Alysa Perkins
Islam Homosexuality and Sexual boundaries in an immigrant city
Shabana Mir
Dancing in front of boys can taint you: Muslim American women on campus
6:00 – 7:30 – Opening Keynote
John Esposito
Islam and Shariah in American Popular Culture: Halal or Haram?
Friday, February 20, 2015
9:00 – 9:15 – Welcome
9:15 – 10:45 – Panel 2: Global Halal Markets
Elif Izberk-Bilgin
Faith-based marketing and the emergence of the global halal industry
Sharif Islam
The semiotics of halal
Sally Howell
Mosqueing the Marketplace in Hamtramck
Ryan Calder
How do we study the “halal revolution”? A map of existing investigations on global halal and agendas for future research
11:00 -12:00 – Keynote 2
Kecia Ali
Redeeming Slavery: ISIS and the Quest for Islamic Morality
1:30 – 3:00 – Panel 3: Ethics and Traditions
Nathan Tabor
The Bottle Let me Down: Intoxicants and Poetry Recitation in 1700s Safavid and Mughal Lands
Moustafa Elsayed
Permissibility of the Maulid: Historical and Contemporary Debates
Tazeen Ali & Evan Anhorn
The (Im)permissibility of Jihad and Hijrah: Western Muslims between Text and Context
Yasmin Moll
Natural Pleasures: Ethical Entertainment in the Islamic Revival
3:15 – 4:45 Panel 4: Negotiating Halal in the Arts
Alaya Forte & Asmaa Soliman
‘Halalising the Arts: How European Muslims Negotiate Religion and the Arts’
Peter G Morey
‘”Halal Fiction” and the Limits of the Postsecular’
Leila Tarakji
The Halal Question in Muslim American Literature
Amina Yaqin
‘The permissibility of Sufi rock music in Pakistan’
7:00 – 9:00 – Keynotes 3 and 4 (Kellogg Center, Auditorium)
Ingrid Mattson
Let’s Get Real: The Body as the Locus of Ethical Action
Sherman Jackson
Beyond Halal: Shariah and the Challenge of the Islamic Secular
Saturday, February 21, 2015
9:30 – 10:45 – Panel 5: Law, Power, and Belonging
Umut Korkut & Hande Eslen-Ziya
Religion, Discourse and Power, and Haram versus Halal in the Eyes of the Beholder: The case of Turkish Friday Mosque Sermons
Mohsen M. Mobasher
Migration, Religion, and the Politics of the Permissible/Impermissible: Conversion as a political strategy for obtaining residency among Muslim Iranian asylum seekers in Europe and North America
Liyakat Takim
Fiqh for Minorities: Shi’i Law in the Diaspora
11:00-12:30 – Panel 6: Halal Meat Industry in International Contexts
Shadia Husseini de Araújo
“Even more halal”? Interpretations of the permissible and the Brazilian halalchicken industry
Oliver Leaman
Controversies about halal: a British debate
Petra Kuppinger
Hidden Halal: Notes From Germany
Sarah E. Robinson
Sourcing Zabiha-Halal Meat as an Expression of Piety: Taqwa Eco-food Cooperative’s Care Ethics in Action