Event Details

End: May 16, 2016
Contact: mceas@ccat.sas.upenn.edu
More Info: http://mceas.org/cfp-worlds2017.pdf

CALL FOR PAPERS:

American and Muslim Worlds circa 1500-1900

Conference at the University of Pennsylvania, McNeil Center for Early American Studies

30 Mar – 1 Apr 2017

Keynote speakers: Denise Spellberg, author of Thomas Jefferson’s Quran: Islam and the Founders; Sylviane Diouf, author of Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas

Program Committee: Edward E. Curtis, Mehmet Darakcioglu, Mitch Fraas, Kambiz GhaneaBassiri, John Ghazvinian, Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet, Timothy Marr, Daniel Richter, Heather Sharkey, Karine Walther

Long before the age of twentieth century geopolitics, American and Muslim worlds informed, interacted, perplexed, inspired, confounded and imagined each other in ways far more numerous than is frequently thought. Whether through Salem traders in the East Indies, Ottoman consuls in Washington, orientalist themes in the work of Emerson, Morisco converts in Latin America, or the burial practices of enslaved Africans, there was no shortage of opportunities for Islam, Muslims and the inhabitants of the Americas to meet, interact and shape one another.

We invite proposals for a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary conference examining the interplay between American and Muslim worlds, circa 1500-1900, to be held at the University of Pennsylvania’s McNeil Center for Early American Studies in the spring of 2017.

For more information, please visit: http://mceas.org/cfp-worlds2017.pdf