Talk: Secular Power and the Politics of Knowledge Production on Islam in Europe

Schirin Amir-Moazami is Professor for Islam in Europe at the Institute of Islamic studies at Freie Universit?t Berlin. She studied Political Sciences and Sociology in Frankfurt/Main, Berlin, Aix-Marseille and Paris. She holds a PhD from the European University Institute in Florence, Department of Social and Political Sciences. Schirin Amir-Moazami has published widely on topics related to Muslims in Europe, especially Germany and France, with a focus on political secularism, public controversies, body politics and governmentality. She is the editor of a blog, located at Forum Transregionale Studien called Provincializing Epistemologies. Most recently she edited a volume on the politics of knowledge production on Muslims and Islam in Europe (Der inspizierte Muslim. Zur Politisierung der Islamforschung in Europa). Currently she is finishing an English monograph which critically investigates integration politics oriented towards Muslims in Germany with the title Interrogating Muslims. The Politics of Integration in Contemporary Germany

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Literature Building Room 155
U.C. San Diego
La Jolla, CA
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Wednesday, May 1 - 3:00 PM