Work-in-Progress Colloquium - Michaelmas Term 2022
The Oxford Islamic Studies Network hosted its inaugural Work-in-Progress Colloquium at St Antony’s College on the 29th of November 2022. The Colloquium was the first in a series of termly seminars that aim to showcase the ongoing research of postgraduates who study Islam at Oxford. After an initial address which outlined the Network’s objectives, its formal integration with TORCH, and its proposed events for the Hilary Term, the seminar featured presentations by postgraduate researchers from a range of disciplinary vantage points.
Imran Visram DPhil Religion (Network Coordinator and Founder)
Opening Address: A Note on the Islamic Studies Network
Anika Kabani
DPhil Anthropology Negotiating Muslimness: Humanitarian Legal Regimes and the Shaping of the Ideal Muslim Subject
Shireen Azam
DPhil Religion Persistence and Invisibilisation: Caste in Indian Muslims
Taibah Al-Fagih
MSt Global & Imperial History Analysing the Legacy of French Colonial Rule in Algeria Through the 2005 Riots in France
Denton Knight
MPhil Development Studies Educating for Pluralism and Perceptions of Islamic Pluralism in East Africa
Sina Maghami Nick
DPhil Geography and the Environment Ethnographic Research Based on Hikmah
Sania Ismailee PhD Political Theory, Commonwealth Split-Site Fellow (IIT Delhi and DPIR Oxford)
Theoretical Perspectives on the Muslim Family Law Reform Debate in India
If you are a current postgraduate researcher at Oxford who is interested in presenting or attending a future Colloquium, be sure to join the mailing list: https://tinyurl.com/OxfordISN. For general news and events, follow the Network’s Instagram account @OxfordISN.
Any queries about the Network can be directed to imran.visram@theology.ox.ac.uk
The Oxford Islamic Studies Network is part of the TORCH Critical-Thinking Communities
