The Many Roads in Modernity

Islamic Piety. Reconsidering Concepts and Frameworks

Programme

Wednesday 18 January

19.00

Welcome

Thursday 19 January

09.30–10.15	Niloofar Haeri, Johns Hopkins University “Why Do We Use “Vernacular,” “Lived” and “Popular”? Notes on how Religion is Imagined in Scholarship”
10.15-10.30	Coffee
10.30–11.15	Ingvild Flaskerud, University of Oslo “Following the Work. Methodological Reflections on Approaches to the Study of Muslim Lay Piety”
11.15–12.30	Petek Onur, University of Copenhagen “Circulating Symbols, Triggering Emotions. Ottoman Nostalgia Diffusing in Istanbul”
12.30-13.30	Lunch
13.30–14.15	Ash Elitsoy, Cyprus World Peace University, Nicosia “Pro-Kurdish Mevlid Commemorations in Turkey. Contested Understandings of a Popular Islamic Practice among Rival Ethno-Political Actors”
14.15–15.00	Catharina Raudvere, University of Copenhagen “Nourishment for the Soul, Rest for the Body. Conceptualising Piety Performances and Devotion”
15.00-15.15	Coffee
15.15–16.00	Christiane Gruber, University of Michigan “Mosques, Museums, and the Metaverse. Imaging Islam in a Virtual Reality”
17.00–19.00	Visit to the Museum of Islamic Civilizations, Çamlıca

Friday 20 January

9.30–10.15	Yafa Shanneik, Lund University “Aesthetic Transformations of Piety. Reconsidering Female Agency in Contemporary Islam"
10.15-10.30	Coffee
10.30–11.15	Banu Senay, Macquarie University “Islam, Music and Multiple Ways of Being Pious in Istanbul”
11.15-14.00	Lunch
14.00–16.00	Visit to The Hilye-i Şerif ve Tesbih Müzesi
16.30–16.45	Coffee back at the SFII
16.45–17.30	Susanne Olsson, “A Qur’an for Children. Reconstructing Traditional Islamic Knowledge in New Domains”
17.45–19.45	Sabrina Mervin, CNRS, Paris screening and discussion of the documentary “The Sky Wept for Forty Days”

Saturday 21 January

09.00–09.45	Simon Stjernholm, University of Copenhagen “Approaching God: Muslim Prayer and the Senses”
	Coffee
10.00–10.45	Helen Haas, University of Tartu “Ideals and Reality. Perceptions of the Sacred and Sense of Spiritual Loss among Alevis in Izmir”
10.45–11.30	Max Lasa, University of Copenhagen “Exploring Piety. German Muslims and Islamic Theology in Turkey”
11.30–12.15	Nada Al-Hudaid, Lund University “In the Khidma Service of Ahl al-Bayt. Practicing Piety through Art among Shia in Kuwait and the UK”
12.15-13.30	Lunch and farewell