USA Africa Dialogue Series - Fwd: Reminder: "Islam & the Making of the Public Space," Mamadou Diouf, Coleman Memorial Lecture, Thurs, April 26

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Tracy Flemming, Ph.D.

Visiting Assistant Professor

African/African-American Studies 

Grand Valley State University

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Subject: Reminder: "Islam & the Making of the Public Space," Mamadou Diouf, Coleman Memorial Lecture, Thurs, April 26

Please join us in welcoming Professor Mamadou Diouf to UCLA this Thursday, 4/26.

 

Senegalese food, complimentary issues of African Arts, and an informative presentation.

 

 

 

presents

 

The 2012 James S. Coleman Memorial Lecture

 

ISLAM AND THE MAKING OF THE PUBLIC SPACE

 

Mamadou Diouf

Columbia University

 

 

Thursday, April 26, 2012

*4:30-6:30 PM

*Young Research Library (YRL) Presentation Room 11348

 

Free and open to the public

Reception to follow with sampling of Senegalese food

Catered by Chef Mam Mbye

 

 

4:30 PM – Welcome by ASC Director Francoise Lionnet

4:45 PM – Presentation by Professor Mamadou Diouf

 

Reception immediately following the presentation & Q & A

 

*PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF VENUE AND STARTING TIME

 

Special thanks to the UCLA Library.

The Library and the Center have been in partnership for over five decades.

 

"Can Islamic Civilization mesh with the Western World?" This presentation will provide a historical perspective on how this controversial question was answered during the French colonial period in Saint-Louis du Sénégal.

 

Muslim law was given an official status in the governance system of the city. It was forced on the colonial administration that opposed it from the late 18^th century to 1856 but came to existence (with the creation of public institutions) without having ever been packaged as "Shariah". Islam, Wolof, Arabic and Hassanya languages have shaped the community - the Muslim traders of the city - that promoted actively the coloring of the colonial institutions by a local culture which foundations, language, rituals and esthetics, were Wolof. They constituted a moral community with a civic culture that drew not only on Islamic religious resources but also on the political, economic and social rights conferred on them by their French citizen status. By constantly making claims based on their citizenship rights, they initiated a twofold process: inserting themselves in the colonial narrative and fabricating a world of their own through a daily engagement with colonial policy and knowledge systems as well as with of their Senegambian neighbors moral and social values.

 

Mamadou Diouf is Leitner Family Professor of African Studies. He leads Columbia University's Institute of African Studies at the School of International and Public Affairs. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Paris-Sorbonne (France). His research interests include urban, political, social and intellectual history in colonial and postcolonial Africa. His most recent book is Histoire du Sénégal: Le modèle islamo-wolof et ses périphéries (2001).  Diouf is the author, editor and co-author of several other works including Les figures du politique en Afrique: des pouvoirs hérités aux pouvoirs élus and Les jeunes: hantise de l'espace public dans les sociétés du Sud.

 

 

 

James Smoot Coleman

The Coleman Memorial Lecture is given in honor and memory of Professor James S. Coleman, the founder of the UCLA African Studies Center.  A pioneer in the field of African Studies, Coleman's capacity for work was extraordinary, and he was among the first American scholars to recognize, understand, and give voice to the significance of the African perspective.  His scholarly contributions were immense and focused largely on nationalism, education, and development theory, but he also wrote on academic freedom and political economy; his works have endured.  Intelligent, warm, and inventive are often words used to describe Coleman.

 

In 1989, the Center was renamed to honor its founder James S. Coleman, whose pioneering scholarship marks him as one of the architects of African Studies in the United States.

 

 

 

Free and open to the public. Pay-by-space & all-day ($11) parking available in lot 3.

UCLA CAMPUS MAP / PARKING INFORMATION

 

 

For questions/more information, contact:

UCLA African Studies Center | 10244 Bunche Hall | Los Angeles, CA 90095-1310 | Telephone: 310-825-3686

Website: http://www.international.ucla.edu/africa | email: africa@international.ucla.edu