05 February 2014, 05:30 am
Constructing Modern Muslim Identities: Islamic Traditions and Modern Imaginaries
Programme Type
Talks

Speaker: Prof. Dietrich Jung, Head of Department, Centre for Contemporary Middle East Studies, University of Southern Denmark

 

Chair: Prof. Gulshan Dietl

 

Author and editor of ten monographs including: Religion, Politics, and Turkey's EU Accession (ed. with Catherine Raudvere,  New York: Palgrave Macmillan 2008); Orientalists, Islamists and the Global Public Sphere: A Genealogy of the Modern Essentialist Image of Islam (Sheffield: Equinox 2011);  and The Politics of Modern Muslim Subjectivities: Islam, Youth and Social Activism in the Middle East, together with Marie Juul Petersen and Sara Lei Sparre (New York: Palgrave 2014)