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• 10 jui 2013

  Leuven

  Call for papers - Europe

  Everyday Life Practices of Muslims in Europe: Consumption and Aesthetics

  This workshop sets out to understand the everyday practices of Muslims living in Europe. The diverse and various (non)-religious daily life practices indicate the non-defined boundaries of Muslims whose practices can be a part of the stigmatised-open spaces in public discourses. Examining the relationship between Islam and liberal democratic values, it is important to note what kind of practices and daily life experiences are exercised in private-public areas, which also determine the views and public perception of Muslims. The identification of Muslims with one or another practice is not a simply neutral matter; this entails also an attachment to liberal, communitarian and civil meanings. Regardless of the daily life activities, these perceptions of Muslims face the challenge that Muslims are not a fixed group, but they share the same practices that others have and do. Food and eating practices, consumer way of life, marriage, salutations; these banal practices of everyday life are central to discover the subjectivity of Muslims, or in other terms, a sense of the self, a way of embodiment.

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• 28 fév 2013

  Leuven

  Call for papers - Europe

  Second Annual Conference of ALTER, European Society for Disability Research

  Scholars are invited to propose an abstract for the Second Annual Conference of ALTER-ESDR. The aim is that the members propose papers that are relevant to the lives of people with disabilities in European contexts. Scholars are encouraged to focus on issues that are scholarly, critical, and cutting-edge in disability research, including research that captures contemporary societal issues, the voice of disabled people, advocacy, and policy.

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