Islam in China: New Studies and Perspectives | April 4 2019 at George Mason University

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