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Islamic Culture(s), Nation-building and the Media: Contemporary Issues - Programme

Key-note address: Public Lecture
Friday 22 September 2006, 10:00 am - 12:30 pm

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10:00	Opening address Professor Marika Vicziany, Director, Monash Asia Institute
10:05	*The santri* view of the Indonesian state** Prof Dr Abdul Munir Mulkhan Faculty of Sunan Kalijaga, National Islamic University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
10:45	Tea and coffee break
11:05	Islam and the divine nature of man Prof Hossein Elahi Ghomshei Professor of Philosophy & Literature, international author and Lecturer on Persian Literature & Islamic Mysticism, Tehran
11:50	Questions from the audience
12:30	End of public lecture session

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Workshop Sessions*

Friday 22 September 2006, 12:30 pm - 5:00 pm

12:30-13:30	Lunch (for workshop participants only)
13:30-15:00	Panel 1 Nationhood and Islamic modernity Chair: Dr Shahram Akbarzadeh, School of Political and Social Inquiry, Monash University Islamic feminism, Muslim feminism, and secular feminism in Iran: a comparative study Ms Houri Jahanshahrad, Monash University Dakwah and Islamic Identity in an Islamic Transnational Movement: The Case of Jama'at Tabligh Mr Kamaruzzaman Bustamam-Ahmad, LaTrobe University Islam, gender and rebellion: Afghanistani women writers Dr Faridullah Bezhan, Monash Asia Institute
15:00-15:30	Tea and coffee break
15:30-17:00	Panel 2 Diasporic Islam in plural contexts Chair: Dr Aneela Zeb Babar, Monash Asia Institute, Monash University Moral minorities: queer communities, Muslim communities and the building of multicultural states Mr Ibrahim Abraham, School of Political and Social Inquiry, Monash University Islamic schools and colleges in Australia - Muslims in Australia or Australian Muslims Peter Jones, University of New England Traitor or Indiana Jones, Family Man or Terrorist? Media representation of David Hicks and Mamdouh Habib Ms Ana Kailis, Schools of Historical Studies and Political and Social Inquiry, Monash University
Evening	Workshop Dinner at Tandoori Nights, 167 Sydney Rd., Brunswick

Saturday 23 September 2006, 9:30 am - 6:00 pm

09:30-11.30	Panel 3 Conceiving 'Islamic democracy' Chair: Ms Nisreen Bajis, Centre for Muslim States and Societies, University of Western Australia Structural scaffolding for building Islamic democracy: democratic seeds and precedents in Islam Mr Louay Abdulbaki, Monash Asia Institute Civil-military cooperation: the case of Afghanistan Prof Amin Saikal, Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, Australian National University The means and application of Islamic culture in democratic nation-building Dr Sayed Khatab, School of Political and Social Inquiry, Monash University Religious-based social capital in Indonesian nation-building: a disturbing question of shari'aisation of PERDA Mr Suaidi Asyari, University of Melbourne
11:30-11:50	Tea and coffee break
11:50-13:15	Panel 4 Islam and nation-building: Historical representation Chair: Dr Faridullah Bezhan, Monash Asia Institute, Monash University Knowledge creation and nationhood construction through sanctioned religio-historical discourse in Pakistan Dr Tahmina Rashid, University of Melbourne 'Tarekat' in representations of national history Dr Julian Millie, Centre of Southeast Asian Studies, Monash University The fall of the Sultanates - a British perspective Mr Anthony Garnaut, Australian National University
13:15-14:00	Lunch
14:00-15:50	Panel 5 Political structures in 'Islamic cultures' Chair: Prof Marika Vicziany, Monash Asia Institute, Monash University Tribalism in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan Ms Victoria Kelly-Clark, Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, Australian National University Political organisations and trust in religious institutions in Muslim countries Emeritus Prof Riaz Hassan, Department of Sociology. Flinders University. Confessional politics, nation-building and the role of media in Lebanon Dr Benjamin MacQueen, School of Political and Social Inquiry, Monash University Islam and professionalism within the Pakistan Army - post-colonial military structures, praetorianism, strategic culture and Islam - the impact of the Zia interregnum Mark Briskey, University of New England
15:50-16:15	Tea and coffee
16:15-17:45	Concluding Panel Chair: Prof Amin Saikal, Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, Australian National University The concluding panel will feature media professionals. The purpose of this panel is to explore the differences between writing on the conference themes by academics and journalists respectively. Starting with an acknowledgement of the differing conditions under which these two sectors operate, it is hoped the workshop will allow an exchange on the relationships between the activities of these two sectors.
17:45	Conclusion of the workshop followed by tea and coffee
	**Each speaker will be given 20 mins for presentation and 10 mins for Q&A

* Participation in the workshop sessions is by invitation. For more information, contact Dr Julian Millie ( julian.millie@adm.monash.edu.au )

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