Muslim Societies in Asia and the Pacific (MSAP)
A center for information, literature and dialogue on the Muslim societies and cultures of Asia and the Pacific  School of Pacific and Asian Studies (SPAS), University of Hawai'i at Mānoa (UHM)
|
|
10 April 2012 | Issue #71
|
|
|
|
Aloha!
Salaam (peace) and welcome to the Muslim Societies in Asia and the Pacific (MSAP) bimonthly newsletter.
|
The Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Centers, Teaching About Islam in World History and More
For this newsletter we direct your attention to an interview MSAP conducted with Susan Douglas, an Education Consultant and a Curriculum Development Specialist who works with the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding (ACMCU) of Georgetown University. On March 23rd and 24th 2012 (two weeks ago) Susan Douglas held two very well-recieved workshops on "Teaching About Islam, Religion and the World" at the University of Hawaii at Manoa (UHM). With this interview transcript (see link above) you can find a link to portions of the audio recording (mp3 format) from the first day of workshop. Also, find on our website a new post featuring a link to an audio/video of a Q&A session with Susan Douglas. These events were fully funded by ACMCU and sponsored here in Hawaii by MSAP, the Pacific and Asian Affairs Council (PAAC), Bridging Cultures, the Islamic Society at UH, and the College of Education at UHM.
We also guide our readers to a post on university-based centers sponsored by Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal and the Alwaleed Bin Talal Foundation. These six centers, while each distinct, all share the goals of promoting dialogue, increasing understanding, and fostering mutual respect between the "West" and Islam. We highly encourage further engagement with these timely and thriving institutions, and wish to call particular attention to the wealth of educational resources available on the ACMCU website.
And related, next week at CUNY in NYC there is a talk by Sheila Canby, the Patti Cadby Birch Curator in charge of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Department of Islamic Art, in which issues related to these two Melikien articles are likely to be raised.
And for those in Hawaii, this week promises to be inspired by the Sufis, see Events in Honolulu below!
|
Events in Honolulu
"Mystical Landscapes-Places of the Mind: Emptiness and Plenitude in Islamic Philosophy and Mysticism"Speaker: Tamara Albertini
Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Hawaii at Manoa (UHM)
When: 13 April 2012 (Friday) 2:30- 4:30pm
|
Where: Sakamaki C-308 -UHM
|
|
Sponsor: Department of Philosophy-UHM
more info
"Rumi: Poet of the Heart" A Film Screening and Discussion with Filmmaker: Haydn Reiss
When: 12 April 2012 (Thursday)
5:00-7:00pm
Where: Department of Art and Art History
Auditorium (ART132)-UHM
Free and open to the public
and
When: 14 April 2012, (Saturday), 1:30-3:30 pm
Where: Shangri La, Doris Duke Foundation
for Islamic Art,
4055 Papu Circle, Honolulu, HI. 96816
"The Hajj and Malcolm X"
A Lecture by Abdul-Karim Khan Professor of History at Leeward Community College (LCC) When: 17 April 2012 (Tuesday), 3:00-4:15pm Where: Room FA 102, LCC Sponsor: Arts and Humanities Division, Leeward Campus Free and open to the public
Asia/Pacific Junctures:
Challenging Notions of
Interdisciplinarity and Regionalism
Graduate Student Conference
When: 11-13 April 2012
Where: Center for Korean Studies Auditorium
Sponsor: School of Pacific and Asian Studies-UHM
more info
|
|
Employment Opportunities
Lecturer, Middle Eastern/Islamic History
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA
Closing date: 19 June 2012
Faculty One Year Term Position Chinese Religions
Western Michigan University, USA
Closing date: 6 June 2012
One-Year Temporary Instructor or Assistant Professor of Asian history
Bradley University, Illinois, USA
Closing date: 1 July 2012
Temporary Lecturer in Modern Asian History
Queen's University Belfast, UK
Closing date: 4 May 2012
Lecturer in Middle Eastern History and/or the History of the Islamic World
Newcastle University, UK
Closing date: 14 April 2012
Assistant Professor, Asian History
Georgia College & State University, USA
Closing date: 15 April 2012
Visiting Assistant Professor, Art History
Berea College, Kentucky, USA
Closing date: 31 May 2012
Visiting Professor, East Asian Studies
Eckerd College, Florida, USA
Closing date: 11 June 2012
School of Oriental & African Studies, Department of Politics and International Studies
London, UK
Closing date: 19 April 2012
Newcastle University, U K Closing date: 13 April 2012
Al Mu'allim Mohamed Awad Binladin Chair in Architecture in the Islamic World American University of Beirut, Lebanon Closing date: 30 April 2012 Institute for Asian Studies Leiden University, Institute for Asian Studies, The Netherlands Closing date: 15 April 2012 |
|
Call for Papers
An Essay Collection
|
|
|
|
Grants/Fellowships
Post-doctoral Fellowship, Institute for Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies Webster University Missouri, USA Closing date: 27 April 2012 Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Two Post-Doctoral Fellowships National University of Singapore Deadline: 15 April 2012 Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in Islamic Feminist Studies
Wheaton College, USA Applications will be considered on a rolling basis. Visiting Research Fellow in Historical Intra-Asian Interactions and Dialogue Nalanda-Sriwijaya Centre, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore Deadline: 25 April 2012 Fellowships for Visiting Research Scholars Center for Southeast Asian Studies Kyoto University, Japan Deadline: 30 April 2012 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship in Asian History Department of History, Wheaton College, Massachusetts, USA Deadline: 1 May 2012
Australian National University |
|
Conferences/
Exhibitions
The 2012 International Summer School on Religion and Public Life (ISSRPL)
Negotiating Space in Diversity: Religions and Authorities
2-15 July 2012
Yogyakarta and Bali, Indonesia
International Workshop: Being Muslim in the World: Everyday Ethics and Cultures of Adab
23-24 May 2012
International Islamic University, Islamabad, Pakistan
Visions of Mughal India
The Collection of Howard Hodgkin
2 February - 22 April 2012
Museum of Art and Archaelogy
University of Oxford, UK
|
|
The Muslim Societies in Asia and the Pacific program at the University of Hawai'i-Mānoa, was established in 2009. It is funded in part by the State of Hawai'i Legislature, the School of Pacific and Asian Studies (SPAS), the US Department of Education and through donations. MSAP seeks to serve as a national resource center for academics and the general public seeking information on Muslim societies in Asia and the Pacific. Contact MSAP Program Coordinators Email us | T: 808 956 6316| F: 808 956 2682 |Visit our website! |
|
|
|
|
|
