[Hum_Calendar_Events] Cartographies of Islam in the Americas - April 3

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The UCLA Latin American Institute and the Center for Near Eastern Studies Presents:

Cartographies of Islam in the Americas: Migrants, Converts and Devotion

This Symposium brings together scholars from the length and breadth of the Americas to map the growing presence of Islam in the ONew World'. Participants bring a wide array of disciplines to this effort, including history, anthropology and political science, and very different sourcesranging from hemerographic archives, to personal narratives and internet discussion forums, to generate an interdisciplinary vision of this complex social landscape.

PANELS:

A Forgotten Presence: Muslim Migrants in early 20th Century South America
María del Mar Logroño Carbona, Assistant Professor, History Department, Florida State University

Boundaries and Passages: Migrants and Converts in the Muslim Communities in Brazil
Paulo G. Pinto, Ph.D. in Anthropology from Boston University. Professor at the Graduate Program in Anthropology and Political Science and Director of the Center for Middle East Studies (NEOM) at the Fluminense Federal University - Brazil

Islam in Cuba
Luis Mesa Delmonte, Researcher and Academic Coordinator at the Center for the Study of Asia and Africa (CEAA), Colegio de Mexico, Mexico

Conversion Stories: Testimonies of Faith
Jonathan Friedlander, Assistant Director/Outreach Director, UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies

Being a new Muslim in Mexico: Conversion as Class Mobility
Camila Pastor de Maria y Campos, Ph.D Candidate, UCLA Department of Anthropology

Friday, April 03 , 2009
9:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Royce 362
Free and Open to the Public

Sponsored by:
UCLA Latin American Institute,
UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies

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