Contested Narratives in Islamic Central Asia

Programme

09:30-09:40
Welcome by Janus Hansen, Chair of Asian Dynamics Initiative

09:40-09:50
Introduction by Ildikó Bellér-Hann, Dept. of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen

09:50-10:50
Keynote speaker Ingeborg Baldauf, Institute of African and Asian Studies, Humboldt-University, Berlin
Did Chinggis Khan’s grandmother have an illegitimate child?

10:50-11:00
Break

11:00-11:30
Mustafa Coşkun, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen
Past Perfect: Narratives of History, Heritage and Identity among the Kyrgyz

11:30-12:00
Claus Pedersen, Dept. of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen
Legitimizing an Islamic government – Khomeini’s layer-by-layer formulation of a new Twelver Shi’i narrative and a new role for the faqih

12:00-13:00
Lunch

13:00-13:30
Aysima Mirsultan, Dept. of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen
Narratives in legal documents from Xinjiang (1911-1949)

13:30-14:00
Martin Lavička, Dept. of Asian Studies at Palacký University, Olomouc
Changing legal narrative concerning religious affairs in light of
amendments of Religious Affairs Regulations and Regulations of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region on Religious Affairs

14:00-14:15
Break

14:15-14:45
Rune Steenberg, Dept. of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen
Narratives of Islamic revival in Xinjiang in the 2000s. The conceptual division of customs and religion

14:45-15:15
Ildikó Bellér-Hann, Dept. of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen
Rulers, scholars, imams, merchants: Uyghur constructions of role-models in Xinjiang in the 21st century

All are welcome!

Link:    https://asiandynamics.ku.dk/english/activities/calendar/contested-narratives-in-islamic-central-asia/

Venue

Room 4A-0-68 at KUA3
South Campus
Njalsgade 76
DK-2300 Copenhagen S