BRINFAITH RELIGION AND EMPIRE PUBLIC LECTURE SERIES Muslim Traders in Yiwu (Zhejiang): Global Migrant Merchants and Local Markets Speaker: Professor Fan Lizhu (Professor of Sociology and Director of Globalization and Religious Studies, Fudan University)Professor Chen Na (Research Fellow, Fudan Development Institute, Fudan University) Date/Time: September 23, 2019, 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm (HK time) […]
BRINFAITH RELIGION AND EMPIRE PUBLIC LECTURE SERIES The Religiosity of Millennials and the Islamic Movement of Hijrah in Indonesia Speaker: Dr. Samsul Maarif (Center for Religious and Cross-cultural Studies (CRCS) Graduate School, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia) Date/Time: September 27, 2019, 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm (HK time) Language: English Venue: Room 201, 2/F, May Hall, […]
BRINFAITH RELIGION AND EMPIRE PUBLIC LECTURE SERIES Islamic Belongings to Chinese Society: Taboo, Tolerance and the Ban on Alcohol in a Chinese Hui Muslim Town ABSTRACTThis talk will focus on how Chinese Hui Muslim men and women living in Southwest China think about haram prohibitions in Islam. When confronted with alcohol in the course of daily […]
BRINFAITH RELIGION AND EMPIRE PUBLIC LECTURE SERIES China’s Belt and Road Initiative in Nepal: National Imaginaries, Ethnographic Anxieties, and Geopolitical Power ABSTRACTThis talk examines China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in Nepal to argue that infrastructure is a symbolic project of national development imaginaries, a process and practice of state formation, and a vector for […]
BRINFAITH RELIGION AND EMPIRE PUBLIC LECTURE SERIES China’s Islamic Outreach to the Middle East ABSTRACTThroughout its existence, the People’s Republic of China has depended on Chinese Muslims to foster relationships in the Arab world. But Beijing’s strategies for engaging its Muslim population in foreign outreach have changed dramatically over time. This lecture will focus on […]