Circuits and Networks: Muslim Interactions in the First Age of Globalization
Day 1 of a two-day conference examining the role of transnational Islam and new technologies on the circulation of ideas in the globalized world order.
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Time to be announced.
Location to be announced.
UCLA
In recent years, academics and policy-makers have focused much attention on the phenomenon of transnational Islam, particularly the role of new technologies and media on the circulation of ideas in the globalized world order. It is easy to forget that this is hardly the first age of globalization, nor is it the first age in which new technologies and media have facilitated the circulation of ideas. This conference will bring together scholars whose work focuses not only on Islam in one or another region, but on the impact of telegraphy and steamships, print and the emergence of a modern public sphere, new conceptions and constructions of global and urban space, and shifting patterns and unprecedented levels of trade, travel, and migration on Islam and Islamic communities worldwide during the nineteenth and early twentieth century. The papers will address these developments directly, as well as explore Islamic production influenced by these developments.
Cost: Free and open to the public.
For more information please contact
Amy Bruinooge, Center for Near Eastern Studies
Tel: (310) 825-1455
cnes@international.ucla.edu
www.international.ucla.edu/cnes/events
