MUSLIM FUTURES – MUSLIMISCHE ZUKÜNFTE
Conference
WHEN: 08.06.2024, Saturday
WHERE: Sigmund Freud Privat University, Vienna, Room: E603 Freudplatz 3, 1020 Wien
THE CONFERENCE TAKES PLACE IN COOPERATION WITH Sigmund Freud PrivatUniversität Wien, IFIME, Interdisciplinary Researchcenter Islam and Muslims in Europe; FWF Forschungsprojekt Conviviality as Potentiality (AR 679), Erasmus+ und der Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien sowie Muslim Futures sowie Superrr Lab, Berlin.
© Muslim Futures
Who has the privilege to dream – and who does not? What circumstances need to be created to think about Muslim Futures? At a time when racist discourses and policies are affecting the imaginations of Muslims, how does this affect visions for Muslim Futures? How do Muslims shape their identities and their presence in a world that – among many other challenges – is increasingly characterized by anti-Muslim racism? Can Muslim Futurism be used as an approach to support the development of future strategies by and for Muslims and demonstrate the important role that art and culture can play in this? Collective imagination processes would be understood in this context as a project of decolonization.
We are inviting you to a conference that focuses on Muslim Futures as a concept that deals with the development of Muslim communities, culture, sustainability, and art. It refers to the idea that Muslims are and want to be actively involved in shaping their own future and examines the obstacles they face and the opportunities that open up to them.
How do Muslims navigate toward sustainable communities? In addition to space for interdisciplinary academic reflection and exchange, the conference will also offer the opportunity to get to know and discuss specific initiatives and projects.
Concept: Dr. Amani Abuzahra, IFIME, Interdisciplinary Researchcenter Islam and Muslims in Europe
PROGRAM
Saturday 08/06/2024
Location: E603, Sigmund Freud Privat University Vienna
Freudplatz 3, 1020 Vienna
09:00 Registration
09:30 Welcome & Opening:
Univ.Prof. Alfred Pritz, Rector, Sigmund Freud Privat University, Vienna
Mag.a Amena Shakir, Head of IFIME, Sigmund Freud Privat University, Vienna
09:45-10:45 Keynote: Three Arguments for Muslim Futures – Dr. Shamim Miah, University of Huddersfield
10:45-11:15 Q&A
11:15-11:30 coffee break
11:30-12:00 Plenary lecture I: The Future as Our Will to Power: Creating Potentialities for Self-Sovereignty – Dr. Thabang Monoa, University of Cape Town
12:00-12:15 Response Univ.Prof.in Marina Gržinić, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
12:15-12.30 Q&A
12:30 – 14:00 lunch break
14:00-14:30 Plenary lecture II: Take Me into The Future – Prof. Maurits Berger, Leiden University
14:30-14:45 Q&A
14:45-15:15 Plenary lecture III: Prof.in Dr. Asmaa El Maaroufi
15:15-15:30 Q&A
15:30-15:45 coffee break
15:45-17:15 Workshops
- Prof.in Dr. Asmaa El Maaroufi
- Thinking Through Cacophony: An Experiment in Sounding our Different Knowledges – Dr. Thabang Monoa, University of Cape Town
- Real Utopias and The Politics of Imagination – Kübra Gümüşay, Fellow at the New Institute in Hamburg
- Thinking Through Muslim Futures – an Exercise in the Praxis of Imagination – Prof. Maurits Berger, Leiden University & Sara Bolghiran, PhD Student in Islamic Studies at Leiden University and a Visiting Researcher at Oxford University
- Of lived utopias: Muslim Futures – Ouassima Laabich, PhD candidate in Political Science at FU Berlin and Fellow/Visiting Researcher at Yale University & Sayda Elarabi
17:15 -18:00 Conclusion
Presentation of the workshops in plenary
Summary & Farewell
