The Australian Association of Islamic and Muslim Studies (AAIMS) is Australia’s leading academic association for scholars engaged in research and the dissemination of knowledge about Islam and Muslim societies. The Association is interdisciplinary and fosters a network of academics based at Australian universities to generate opportunities for joint scholarly research across disciplines and institutions, disseminate research by its members, and promote national and international collaborations.
AAIMS’ third national conference will be held on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, 14-16 September 2021 and will be hosted online at the Australian National University, Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies in Canberra. Current and prospective AAIMS and BRAIS members are warmly encouraged to apply to present their ongoing research in any area of Islamic and Muslim Studies
The central theme of this year’s conference, “The Future of Islam and Humanity: Local and Global Challenges and Opportunities”, is meant to challenge decades-long perceptions of Islam as antithetical to peaceful coexistence and encourage papers that discuss the challenges and opportunities for Islamic and Muslim studies in local and global contexts. Participants are encouraged to consider the significance of the current time-period – by the latter half of this century, Islam is expected to have more followers than any other religion on the planet, surpassing Christianity for the first time in history. A focus on humanity refers to the collectively of human beings but also connotes the qualities of being humane, kind and compassionate, terms that have come to be proclaimed more loudly in the wake of the 2019 Christchurch massacre, COVID-19 pandemic and protests around the world calling for systemic change in support of human rights, equality and a more ethical, fair and just planet and for its inhabitants.
Conference Convenors: A/Prof Halim Rane (Griffith University), A/Prof Zuleyha Keskin (Charles Sturt University) and A/Prof Karima Laachir (ANU).
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The conference welcomes presentations by academics of all levels including early career researchers and PhD students. We will have specific sessions to support participants involved in Higher Degree Research and Early Career Academics (ECRs).
We welcome both individual papers as well as panel submissions relevant to the study of Islam and Muslim societies. Proposals can be submitted for the traditional panel format as well as roundtable discussions all to be conducted in an online format. We also welcome papers and panels that focus on learning and teaching, including language teaching and learning via online formats,
Proposals of up to 300 words should be sent to info@aaims.org.au by 1 June 2021 to be reviewed on an ongoing basis by members of the AAIMS executive and conference sub-committee. Please include relevant affiliation, a 200 word bio and contact information in a single Word Document, along with the abstract. Presentations should be no longer than 15 minutes.
All presenters will be required to be members of AAIMS (or BRAIS) by 31 July 2021. Membership details are available on the AAIMS website via this link. Specific technical information and timings will follow closer to the conference date and will be updated on our conference webpage.
The 2021 AAIMS conference will feature a keynote presentation delivered by Prof. Ibrahim Zein of Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar, who will discuss new research on the Covenants of the Prophet Muhammad, arguably the most ground-breaking research in the field of Islamic Studies today. He will be joined by Ahmed El-Wakil who will discuss his fieldwork and the evidence gathered to date towards the authentication of the Covenants.
The conference will also feature an online roundtable discussion with prominent leaders in the fields of Islamic and Muslim Studies on the state of the fields of Islamic and Muslim Studies from global and national perspectives. This roundtable will provide insight on prominent areas of research today and propose new research directions for the future.
Read more on the conference and suggested topics and panels on the AAIMS web page
DAY ONE - TUESDAY 14 SEPTEMBER 2021 | ||
9:00am - 9:30am | Welcome by Co-convenors | A/Prof Karima Laachir, Australian National University |
Zoom Registration Link: https://anu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMrd-uqrjoiG9yKNqHprFrqlvX5zxITnf77 | ||
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9:30am - 11:30am | ECRs: Job Prospects, Networking and Funding | Chair: A/Prof Halim Rane, Griffith University
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Zoom Registration Link: https://anu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMpfu2rrzsjGdIam7U3CXG7bPhoh4wCoMio | ||
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12:00pm - 2:00pm | Teaching Islamic Studies: Roundtable Discussion | Chair: A/Prof Karima Laachir, Australian National University
Panellists: |
Zoom Registration Link: https://anu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAkdOivrDMoG9zwExZEpWzlJaXZSjX6xK3T | ||
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2:30pm - 4:30pm | AAIMS Annual General Meeting | AAIMS Members |
Zoom Registration Link: https://anu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwpd-mrrDwiH9EHSHpAkEywBcgjGUHfgkUb | ||
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6:00pm - 7:30pm | Public Event (Keynote Presentation) “The Covenants of the Prophet Muhammad” | Chair: A/Prof Halim Rane, Griffith University
Keynote Speaker: |
Zoom Registration Link: https://charlessturt.zoom.us/j/66680238821 | ||
DAY TWO – WEDNESDAY 15 SEPTEMBER 2021 | ||
9:30am - 11:30am | Session 1A: Muslims in Australia | Chair: A/Prof Halim Rane, Griffith University
“Muslim Youth in the West: Personal, Social and Religious Issues Muslim Youth Face in the Modern World”
“Belief, Practice and Belonging: A Comparative Analysis of Australian converts to Islam and Born Muslims”
“Islamic Community Processes: Women’s Experiences of Family Dispute”
“Contesting institutional norms: Muslim women advocates doing justice from the bottom-up” |
Zoom Registration Link: https://anu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcsdu-pqj4sGNUwBGKgQNxLigD0edVxBTni | ||
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9:30am - 11:30am | Session 1B: Islam and Political Identity | Chair: A/Prof Karima Laachir, Australian National University
“Salafi Political Identity and Local Contexts”
“Embracing Locality for Creating Harmony in Indonesia: Negotiating Islamic Identity and Nationality Among the Muslim Acehnese”
“Questioning the Moderation Dichotomy: Understanding Hamas’s Continuing Moderation” |
Zoom Registration Link: https://anu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIscu2ppjMsGNHEOswoYNRoM9IzlaUFl-uI | ||
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12:00pm-1:30pm | Session 2A: Maqasid, Ethics and Law | Chair: A/Prof Halim Rane, Griffith University
“A ‘Traditional’ Turn: Shatibi’s Maqasid in Early-Modern Maliki Legal Theory”
“Analysing Genre of Islamic Philosophical Akhlaq (Ethics) in the Light of ‘Adududdin al-Ijī’s Epistle and its Commentary by Tashkoprizade”
“The Role of Islamic Privacy Laws on Hudud Laws in Sharia” |
Zoom Registration Link: https://anu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIkfuiqqjMpGt3vO2g1eskaY6Dub64AdCcX | ||
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12:00pm-1:30pm | Session 2B: Muslim Political Issues and Thought | Chair: Dr Alam Saleh
“The Faded Shadow of God on the Eve of the Constitutional Revolution of Iran: A Study of Agnosticism in the Modern Iranian Thought”
“Authoritarian Religious Populists in Power and Emerging Digital Technologies: The Cases of Turkey, Pakistan and India” Prof Ihsan Yilmaz, Deakin University and Assoc Prof Raja Ali Saleem, Forman Christian College, Pakistan
“Rethinking Islamic Politics: God, Enlightenment and the Modern State” |
Zoom Registration Link: https://anu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYscuyhpj4uEtOIE28UAq7_aR-5Ou5kOvJE | ||
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2:30pm-4:00pm | Session 3A: Rereading Islamic Sources (Quran, Hadith and Sirah) | Chair: Dr Hakan Coruh
“Revisiting the Homosexuality Narrative in Islam: The Revisionist Analysis of Colonialism, Quran and Hadith”
“Future of Sīrah Genre: Reflection on the Fiqh al-Sīrah Works”
“Ibn ʿUmar’s Interpretation of the Qurʾānic Verse ‘Fight them until Fitnah is no more’ and its Relevance to Modern Day Muslims” |
Zoom Registration Link: https://anu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMvc-qhrTguHdF0TABVejq9en3hoU9uwxJ5 | ||
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2:30pm-4:00pm | Session 3B: Islamophobia | Chair: Dr Joshua Roose, Deakin University
“‘Just Be Comfortable with Yourself and Move on with Your Life’: Australian Muslim Women’s Arguments against the French Burkini Ban”
“Gendered Islamophobia in Australia: Minimisation and Distortion of Hate Crime against Muslim Women in Public and Official Discourse”
“Muslims' Visibility as an anti-Islamophobia Strategy by Victorian Muslim Community Organisations” |
Zoom Registration Link: https://anu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYudO6orDssE9W0qyQgAJJU0ASOwdbVNNd0 | ||
DAY THREE – THURSDAY 16 SEPTEMBER 2021 | ||
9:30am-11:00am | Session 1A: Islam-West Relations in Art and Popular Culture | Chair: Assoc Prof Karima Laachir, Australian National University
“Sustaining Counter-Hegemonic Conceptions of Islam: A Study of Popular Dystopian Novels on the Invasion of the West”
“Muslim Comics: Voices from the Margins”
“A Call to Connect: ‘Islamic’ Art in Australia and Aotearoa” |
Zoom Registration Link: https://anu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0pd-6rqzItHNdImCdyjzo_rQdd-hQ_D1lm | ||
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9:30am-11:00am | Session 1B: Islam and Muslims in South-East Asia | Chair: Dr Eva Nisa, Australian National University
“The Ijazah in Islamic Education in Singapore”
“Indonesia Hajj Funds Management Agency Law: Paradoxical Provisions”
“Cultivating possibilities from impossibilities: the future Indonesian Umrah pilgrimage in the era of commodified religiosity” |
Zoom Registration Link: https://anu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUkde2uqzMqGtEDlYPe5gMSyPU3pRue3ckh | ||
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11:30am-1:00pm | Responses to Financial Crises in the Muslim World | Chair: Dr Mhamed Biygautane, University of Melbourne
“Resilience of Islamic Equity Markets in Turbulent Times”
“The Fiscal Transformations of Egypt and Tunisia Post the Arab Spring”
“Energy transitions, fiscal pressure, and subsidy reform in the Gulf” |
Zoom Registration Link: https://anu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEpfuuurT0uGNJRKR5wkcye2Am0iHtIBM1b | ||
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2:00pm-3:30pm | Islam and its Others in Contemporary Iran | Chair: Prof Shahram Akbarzadeh, Deakin University
“The Instrumental Use of Ethnicity in Contemporary Iran”
“Securitising the Other, Securing the Self: Iran, Friends and Foes amidst Regional Rivalry”
“Faith on the Threshold: Afghan Migration to the Islamic Republic of Iran” |
Zoom Registration Link: https://anu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIofuqvpjosE90sDrPt1razMLVkFLC_bBuw | ||
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