Islamic Culture(s), Nation-building and the Media: Contemporary Issues
Friday 22 and Saturday 23 September,
2006
The Windsor Hotel, 103 Spring Street, Melbourne,
Victoria, 3000
The Centre of Southeast Asian Studies and Monash Asia Institute will host a workshop enabling discussion about processes of nation-building and the role of Islamic culture(s) within these processes. The workshop will be held on 22-23 September 2006 in Melbourne.
Aims
At this time, a number of states in the Islamic world are engaged in nation-building processes. In all of these cases, the understandings given to nation-building involve reflection on models, traditions and authoritative pasts that are in some ways 'Islamic'. This workshop will bring together established and early career scholars to discuss the cultural influence of Islam on nation-building in the Asia-Pacific region.
Media component
The APFRN 2006 Signature Theme is 'Building Effective Communication in the Asia Pacific'. The workshop will embrace this theme in its final session, in which journalists will present views on the obstacles to effective dialogue between the media and academia, and the specific ways in which the 'media frame contests over nation in Islamic countries'.
Themes of interest
- Contests over nationhood, including constitutional models and rhetorics of nationhood.
- Role of traditional political elites.
- Nation and the social ethic: Ethnic and gender difference.
- Intellectual and cultural expression.
- Identity, national education and languages.
- Media representation about Islam and nation-building.
Keynote speakers
Prof Dr Abdul Munir Mulkhan, Yogyakarta,
Indonesia
Professor Hossein Elahi Qomshei, Tehran
Format of the Workshop
There will be two parts to the workshop:
- The key notes addresses for the opening panel will be made available to paying participants in the form of a public lecture from 9.30 am - 11.30 am on Friday 22 September 2006
- Closed sessions with invited participantswill take place on the afternoon of Friday 22 September and all day on Saturday 23 September 2006. See programme for topics to be discussed.
Enquiries about academic programme
If you wish to participate in the closed sessions of the workshop, please send your enquiries to the workshop convenors:
- Dr Julian Millie, Julian.Millie@adm.monash.edu.au
- Dr. Faridullah Bezhan Faridullah.bezhan@adm. monash.edu.au
Registration for the public lecture
RSVP (essential) with "Islam Workshop" in subject heading of email to Dr Tony Donaldson at tony.donaldson@adm. monash.edu.au
Entry fee: $20.00 per
head (cash payment at the door or in advance by credit card or cheque)
Download form for payment in advance
General Enquiries
Ms Juliet Yee at monash.asia.institute@adm. monash.edu.au
Downloads
Funding and host organisations
 | ARC Asia Pacific Futures Research Network |
 | Monash Asia Institute |
 | UNE Asia Centre |
 | UWA Centre for Muslim States and Societies |
 | ANU Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies |