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Cultivating a Wholesome Body: Islam in the German Gym Class

A public lecture by Professor Kathy P. Ewing, Duke University.

Monday, May 22, 2006
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
UCLA
Von Grunebaum Library
10383 Bunche Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095

In Spring Quarter 2006, the Center for Near Eastern Studies and the Center for European and Eurasian Studies, together with the Department of Sociology, offer a series of public lectures on Muslim Diaspora Communities in Europe and North America.

Kathy P. Ewing (Duke University) is Associate Professor of Anthropology. She is the author of “Between Turkey and Germany: Living Islam in the Diaspora,” South Atlantic Quarterly; “Legislating Religious Freedom: Muslim Challenges to the Relationship between 'Church' and 'State' in Germany and France,” Daedalus; and “The Violence of Non-Recognition: Becoming a 'Conscious' Muslim Woman in Turkey,” in Cultures under Siege: Collective Violence and Trauma in Anthropological and Psychoanalytical Perspective, ed. Antonius Robben and Marcelo Suarez-Orozco.

For complete schedule go to this page.

Contact Information

  • Peter Szanton, Center for Near Eastern Studies, 310-825-1455
  • Jim Robbins and Amanda Mountain, Center for European and Eurasian Studies, 310-825-4060

Cost: All lectures are free and open to the public.

Sponsor(s): Center for European and Eurasian Studies, Center for Near Eastern Studies, Sociology