{"id":2441,"date":"2017-09-30T17:03:16","date_gmt":"2017-09-30T21:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/?p=2441"},"modified":"2025-10-03T11:42:49","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T15:42:49","slug":"mapping-a-pluralist-space-in-ismaili-studies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/mds\/2017\/mapping-a-pluralist-space-in-ismaili-studies\/","title":{"rendered":"Mapping a Pluralist Space in Ismaili Studies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Carleton Centre for the Study of Islam hosted the second international Ismaili Studies conference “Mapping a Pluralist Space in Ismaili Studies”<\/strong> on March 9 and 10, 2017<\/strong> in Richcraft Hall at Carleton University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The conference was a major success, bringing together 63 speakers from 12 countries and another 150 participants from across Canada. Audience members included professors and students, religious education teachers, community members from across Canada, and Ism\u0101\u02bf\u012bl\u012b institutional leaders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Missed the overbooked event? Find excerpts here<\/a> from opening remarks, keynote by Prof. Homi Bhabha, music workshop, followed by slideshow of select photos from #ISC2017<\/a> at Carleton University’s Centre for the Study of Islam. The proceedings have also been uploaded here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\n Mapping a Pluralist Space in Ismaili Studies\n <\/h2>\n \n \n <\/header>\n\n \n\n

Carleton Centre for the Study of Islam\u00a0hosted the second international Ismaili Studies conference \u201cMapping a Pluralist Space in Ismaili Studies<\/strong>\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0on\u00a0<\/strong>March 9 and 10, 2017\u00a0<\/strong>in Richcraft Hall at Carleton University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The conference was a major success, bringing together 63 speakers from 12 countries and another 150 participants from across Canada. Audience members included professors and students, religious education teachers, community members from across Canada, and Ism\u0101\u02bf\u012bl\u012b institutional leaders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Missed the overbooked event? Find excerpts here<\/a> from opening remarks, keynote by Prof. Homi Bhabha, music workshop, followed by slideshow of select photos from #ISC2017<\/a> at Carleton University\u2019s Centre for the Study of Islam. The proceedings have also been uploaded here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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Dr. Homi Bhabha. Photo from Second International Ismaili Studies at ISC2017.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The Keynote Address by Homi K. Bhabha<\/strong> of Harvard University, titled \u201cThoughts on Diasporic Cosmopolitanism<\/strong>,\u201d weaved together the ethics of communication, intercultural translation, the moral imagination, and migration. Bhabha spoke about the liminality and cosmopolitanism of migrants\u2019 lifeworlds; empowerment as an invitation to experiment with newer self-identifications; the negotiation of community interest under conditions of migratory displacement; cultural ambivalence and the splitting of minority identities in encounters with others; the relational sense of cultural value; thinking on the ongoing presence of the past-in-present rather than the polarity of tradition versus modernity; and the memories which a people chooses to commemorate and to forget.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hussein Janmohamed<\/strong> of the University of Toronto took an interdisciplinary approach to mapping pluralist spaces. His Music Workshop: \u201cO Canada!  Intersections, Counterpoint, and Harmony Through Choral Dialogue \u2013 An Interactive Workshop<\/strong>\u201d addressed issues of migration, racial discrimination, cross-cultural engagement, and integration through the medium of music. The workshop concluded with the singing of a five part intercultural devotional soundscape incorporating melodies from First Nations, Buddhist, Jewish, Christian and Muslim traditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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ISC2017 also featured the new The Ugandan Asian Archive exhibit with a sample of items housed at the Carleton University Library. Artifacts included clippings from Canadian and British newspapers scrapbooks, a hand written logbook recording the arrival of teach plane in Montreal, and the Canadian destinations of the Ugandan Asian refugees who went on to settle across the country. The collection offered insights on the Asian expulsion from Uganda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There were various panels discussing issues regarding Migration and Diaspora studies at the conference:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  • Digitizing Resources.<\/span> The papers in this session dealt with the digitizing of Ismaili historical and religious resources in diaspora, particularly in Canada.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Migration, Borders, Politics<\/span> addressed the influence of globalization and migratory movements on the engineering of a new pan-Ismaili identity discourse.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Ugandan Asian Expulsion<\/span> explored the geo-political and historical context of Idi Amin\u2019s expulsion decree and the subsequent resettlement of Ugandan Asians in Canada; the Carleton\u2019s MacOdrum Library\u2019s rationale for capturing the history of diaspora groups through its holdings; and the use of oral histories at the Library\u2019s Archives and Research Collections to enhance its collections.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • 19th & 20th Century Ismaili History in Africa.<\/span> Papers dealt with the engagement of diasporic Indian Ismailis with African societies and the recording of this experience in literature.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Identity, Practice and Participation in Canada<\/span>  addressed the evolution and transformation of Ismaili identity in Canadian contexts.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Religious Education.<\/span> One of the papers dealt with the challenges of Ismaili religious education in the Canadian immigrant context.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    All photos taken at the second international Ismaili Studies conference by Carleton Centre for the Study of Islam. <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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