What's going on?
EVENTS
October 15-17, 2008
CLAC National Conference 2008: Frankly Speaking: Challenges in Integrating Languages
and Cultures into a Post-Secondary Curriculum
November 15, 2008
Visualizing Human Rights Conference
Global Education Center-More info to come!
November 17, 2008
9th Annual CGI International Photography Competition Award Reception and Exhibit
4 pm-Atrium of the Global Education Center
November 18, 2008
FLAS Information Session
3 pm-4 pm -- Room 1009, FedEx Global Education Center
November 19, 2008
CGI Student International Research Symposium
9 am to 5 pm-Room 4003 of the Global Education Center
November 21, 2008
FLAS Information Session
3 pm-4 pm - Room 4003, FedEx Global Education Center
STUDENT BLOGGERS!
Follow a few UNC students via their travel blogs.
AWARDS!
May 2008: CGI staff member Hannah Gill wins Robert E. Bryan Public Service Award!
NEWS!
UNC-Chapel Hill received $198,060 from the US Department of Education to support five graduate student fellowships for study in Russia, Moldova, India, Cambodia and Thailand via the 2008-2009 Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Program.
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The Center has just recieved a grant in the amount of $148,000 from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in support of a Sawyer Seminar titled: Disaggregating Diversity: historical coexistence and the struggle for conformity in contemporary Muslim societies. Dr. Sarah Shields and Dr. Banu Gokariksel will lead this seminar.
Muslim majorities now exist in countries from the Mediterranean to the China Sea, and on three continents. As Islam spread, it was adapted by local populations to include a wide diversity of beliefs and practices. Even the lands of “central Islam,” once ruled by the Ottomans, Mughals and Safavis, are home to great varieties of people. They usually coexisted peaceably, and sometimes not. Intermittent “reform” projects tried to purge unorthodox practices from Muslim societies, not only in the Middle East but also in the outlying areas of Africa and Asia. “Modern” impositions, like nationalist and Salafi movements, and current military conflicts, have gone much further, thanks to new technologies that diffuse information and facilitate ideological enforcement. Internal activists, both secular and religious, now work to introduce “normative” religion and new definitions of belonging that are today dividing populations, putting this (formerly?) multi-cultural society at risk. Although it would be inaccurate to romanticize the diversity that has always existed within the Muslim world, or to pretend that it never led to conflict, it is beyond question that the variations among Muslims, their politics, and their religious practices is remarkably varied. Variations are constant, complex, and fruitful, and it these that the faculty of the Triangle will explore through an interdisciplinary seminar.
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We are pleased to announce Global-e, a new electronic journal that focuses on research, methodologies, and teaching global studies. The journal is available at www.global-ejournal.org.
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