Workshop at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology

October 02, 2017

Conceptualizing the Bureaucratization of Islam and its Socio-Legal Dimensions in Southeast Asia: Anthropological and Transdisciplinary Perspectives

International experts at the Emmy Noether Group's workshop
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The organisers of the workshop 'Conceptualizing the Bureaucratization of Islam and its Socio-Legal Dimensions in Southeast Asia: Anthropological and Transdisciplinary Perspectives': Rosalia Engchuan, Annika Benz, Dominik Müller, Fauwaz Abdul Aziz, Tímea Gréta Biró (from left to right)
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Dominik Müller welcomes the workshop's participants and introduces the topics of discussion.
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The workshop took place in the Max Planck Institute of Social Anthropology's new seminar room.
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Marie-Claire Foblets, the Max Planck Institute of Social Anthropology's Managing Director, also attended the Emmy Noether Group's workshop.
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Fauwaz Abdul Aziz (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle) ■ Talk title: Bureaucratization of Islam in a Christian-Majority State: An Ethnography of the National Commission on Muslim Filipinos (NCMF)
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Tímea Gréta Biró (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle) ■ Talk title: The Bureaucratization of Zakat: An Ethnography of the Culture of Giving in Malaysia
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Rosalia Engchuan (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle) ■ Talk title: Negotiating the Boundaries of 'Appropriate' Sexuality Through Film: A Quest into State-Based Bureaucratic Film Censorship in Indonesia and the Negative Space Making It
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Rosalia Engchuan (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle)
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Keebet von Benda-Beckmann, head of the project group 'Legal Pluralism' at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology from 2000 to 2012, was also invited to discuss with the PhD students.
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Annika Benz (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle), Emmy Noether Group student team member.
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Fauwaz Abdul Aziz introduces Patricia Sloane-White.
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Patricia Sloane-White (University of Delaware, USA) ■ Talk title: 'Ethnography by Appointment': Studying Muslims in Corporate and Bureaucratic Settings ■ Session I: The Bureaucratization of Islam in Contemporary Southeast Asia: Anthropological and Transdisciplinary Perspectives
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Michael Feener (University of Oxford, UK) ■ Talk title: Shaping Shari’a Imaginaries: State Structures and Public Pedagogy in Contemporary Aceh, Indonesia ■ Session I: The Bureaucratization of Islam in Contemporary Southeast Asia: Anthropological and Transdisciplinary Perspectives
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Michael Feener (University of Oxford, UK)
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In informal discussion: Michael Peletz (Emory University, USA) und Patricia Sloane-White (University of Delaware, USA)
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Dian Abdul Hamed Shah (Centre for Asian Legal Studies, National University of Singapore) ■ Talk title: Constitutions, Religion, and Politics in Asia: Indonesia, Malaysia and Sri Lanka ■ Session I: The Bureaucratization of Islam in Contemporary Southeast Asia: Anthropological and Transdisciplinary Perspectives
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Alicia Izharuddin (University of Malaya, Malaysia) ■ Talk title: 'Free Hair': Narratives of Unveiling and Reconstruction of the Self ■ Session II: Malaysia and the Philippines
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Michael Peletz (Emory University, Atlanta, USA) ■ Talk title: Are Women Getting (More) Justice? Malaysia's Sharia Courts in Ethnographic and Historical Perspective ■ Session II: Malaysia and the Philippines
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Kerstin Steiner (La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia) ■ Talk title: Banning Books in the Name of Islam: A Case Study from Malaysia ■ Session II: Malaysia and the Philippines
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Kerstin Steiner (La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia)
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Scott MacLochlainn (University of Göttingen, Germany) ■ Talk title: The Corporation as Religious Subject (Philippines) ■ Session II: Malaysia and the Philippines
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Marie-Claire Foblets, Director of the Department 'Law & Anthropology', talks with Minh Nguyen.
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Mirjam Künkler (Institute for Advanced Study 'Law as Culture', University of Bonn, Germany) ■ Talk title: Law, Legitimacy and Equality: The Bureaucratization of Religion and Conditions of Belief in Indonesia ■ Session III: Indonesia
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Intan Paramaditha (Macquarie University, Australia) ■ Talk title: 'Not the Guardian of Your Faith': Islamic Conservativism and the Secular Cultural Producers in Indonesia ■ Session III: Indonesia
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Intan Paramaditha (Macquarie University, Australia)
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Saskia Schäfer (FU Berlin, Germany) ■ Talk title: The Strategies of the Council of Indonesian Islamic Scholars and their Consequences for Indonesian Politics ■ Session III: Indonesia
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