ISLAM IN CHINA : NEW STUDIES AND PERSPECTIVES
George Mason University Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies
Thursday, April 4, 2019
Johnson Center, Gold Room (Fairfax Campus)
Panel 1 | 9:30 – 12:30
PEOPLE, TEXTS, SOUNDS
ELISE ANDERSON (Indiana University)
From Celebration to Silence in the Uyghur Region: Cultural Genocide and Destruction in the “People’s War on Terror”
DAVID ATWILL (Pennsylvania State University)
A Tibetan by Any Other Name: The Curious Case of Tibetan Muslims
MICHAEL GIBBS HILL (College of William and Mary)
Points of Identification: Translating Literature from Arabic to Chinese in the Twentieth Century
GUANGTIAN HA (Haverford College)
Listening to Lost Sound: Remembrance and Its Failure in the Sufi Voice
Panel 2 | 2:00 – 5:00
RULERS, BOOKS, SPACES
KELLY HAMMOND (University of Arkansas)
Cold War Mosque: Asian Geopolitics, the Politicization of Religious Spaces, and the Taipei Mosque
MARIE PAULE HILLE (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales)
Islam in Northwest China: An Overview of a Sino-Islamic Group, the Xidaotang
ERIC SCHLUESSEL (University of Montana)
The Emperor’s Secrets: How Muslims Interpreted Chinese Rule in Qing Xinjiang
DROR WEIL (Max Planck Institute)
Translating the Natural World: Arabo-Persian Philosophy of Nature in Late Imperial China
Closing Remarks | 5:00 – 5:15
KRISTIAN PETERSEN (Old Dominion University)
Reflections and Future Steps
