[Hum_Calendar_Events] CNES EVENT CANCELLED: Ways of the Umma

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>> Ways of the Umma: From Public Sphere to Body Without Organs?
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>> EVENT CANCELLED 
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>> A lecture by Armando Salvatore, Humboldt University, Berlin/Oriental Studies
>> University, Naples
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>> Thursday, May 13, 2010
>> 3:00 PM
>> 10383 Bunche Hall
>> UCLA
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>> A Heisenberg Fellow at Humboldt University, Berlin, Armando Salvatore directs
>> the M.A. Program in Languages, History and Cultures of the Mediterranean and
>> the Islamic World,  Oriental Studies University, Naples, where he teaches
>> Sociology of Culture and Communication.
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>> Professor Salvatore works on the sociological, political and anthropological
>> dimensions of religious traditions and secular formations in historical and
>> comparative perspective, by laying a particular emphasis on phenomena related
>> to Islam within global civil society, new media, and the public sphere.
>> Continuing a scholarly tradition at his university in Naples, attention to
>> wider horizons of Islam¹s cultural contact and global interaction,
>> particularly with Western Europe and East Asia, is also central to his work.
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>> Salvatore¹s most recent books (authored, edited, and co-edited) are Islam and
>> Modernity: Key Issues and Debates (2009), The Public Sphere: Liberal
>> Modernity, Catholicism, Islam (2007, pb 2010), Islam in Process: Historical
>> and Civilizational Perspectives (2006), Religion, Social Practice, and
>> Contested Hegemonies (2005) and Public Islam and the Common Good, (2004, pb
>> 2007). He is presently completing a new book on The Global Muslim Public
>> Sphere for University of California Press with Mark LeVine and has started
>> editing the Wiley-Blackwell History of Islam and Islamic Civilization.
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>> Cost: Free and open to the public
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>> For more information, contact:
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>> Mona Ramezani, Center for Near Eastern Studies
>> Tel: (310) 825-1181
>> cnes at international.ucla.edu
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>> http://www.international.ucla.edu/cnes
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