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5:00 – 7:00 pm University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill • Institute for the Arts & Humanities • Hyde Hall Rita Chin (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) Gender, Islam, and the Politics of Integration in the New Europe Over the last two decades, the question of integrating Muslim immigrants into the New Europe has increasingly been pursued through a debate about the role of gender and sexuality in Islam. Despite their different starting points, the headscarf affairs in France, the sensationalistic coverage of honor killings in Germany, and the debate about the burqa in Britain have each, in turn, figured Muslim women as victims of a backward, oppressive, and patriarchal Islamic culture/religion. A common thread running through these controversies is the assumption that Muslim gender relations are an index or litmus test of Islam’s modernity and compatibility with European, liberal, democratic societies. In order for Muslims to integrate into the New Europe, then, they must reject their traditional practices and embrace the norms of “sexual democracy.” Rita Chin is Associate Professor of History at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. A specialist on comparative migration, ethnic minorities, and gender in modern Europe, Dr. Chin published her first book, The Guest Worker Question in Postwar Germany, in 2007. Subsequently, Chin was the driving force behind 2010’s After the Nazi Racial State: Difference and Democracy in Germany and Europe, an edited collection written with Geoff Eley and Heide Fehrenbach. The book challenges popular conceptions of racism in Europe. Her current book project examines the European Left and postwar immigration. Co-convener: in conjunction with:
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Related Event: Graduate Student Workshop Friday, April 6, 201212:45 - 3:00 FedEx Gobal Education Center • Room 4003 with Rita Chin (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Department of History) Transnational and Minorities History A registration for the workshop is necessary. Please register with Brittany Lehmann.
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