Thursday, 4 June, 2015
14.00
Welcome Remarks by the Convenors
Schirin Amir Moazami, Ruth Streicher, Freie Universität Berlin
Panel 1: Rethinking the Social Sciences From the Areas
14.30
Islamic Law, Social Sciences and the Provincialization of Knowledge
Alexandre Caeiro, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar
15.15
Re-Thinking Society from Elsewhere: Studying Thought and Intellectual Practice on the Swahili Coast
Kai Kresse, Columbia University, New York
16.00
Coffee Break
16.30
Rethinking Humanism and Politics in a Global Age: A View from Southeast Asia
Goh Beng Lan, National University of Singapore
17.15
Buddhism, Secularism and the Regulation of the ‘Muslim Minority’ in Thailand
Ruth Streicher, University of California, Berkeley/Freie Universität Berlin
18.00
Discussion
18.45
End of First Day
Friday, 5 June, 2015
Panel 2: Contesting Social Science Epistemologies
09.30
Decolonizing State Theory: The Absent Presence of ‘Latin America’
Markus-Michael Müller, Freie Universität Berlin
10.15
Negotiating ‘Area’ and ‘Discipline’ after the Arab Uprisings – Political Sciences in Turbulent Times
Cilja Harders, Freie Universität Berlin
11.00
Coffee Break
11.30
Critical Theory after the Rise of the Global South
Boike Rehbein, Humboldt Universität Berlin
12.15
Discussion
13:00
Lunch Break
Panel 3: Decentering Theoretical Categories of Gender and Religion
Part I: Categories of Gender
14.30
Gender Studies and Its Travels - Discipline and Disciplining
Allaine Cerwonka, University of East London
15.15
Coffee Break
16.00
Between [Dis-]guise and [Dis-]orientation: The Case of a Female Fakir in Pakistan
Omar Kasmani, Freie Universität Berlin
16.45
Discussion
17.30
End of the Second Day
Saturday, 6 June, 2015
Cont. Panel 3, Part II: Categories of Religion
09.30
The Movement of Critique
Ruth Mas, University of Colorado, Boulder
10.15
A Transcultural Perspective on the Sociology of Religion
Armando Salvatore, McGill University, Montréal
11.00
Coffee Break
11.30
A Post-Colonial Critique of Weber’s Theory of Race, Religion and Ethnicity
Manuela Boatca, Freie Universität Berlin
12.15
Knowledge Production as a Secular Practice: The Social Scientific Measurement of Muslims in Europe
Schirin Amir-Moazami, Freie Universität Berlin
13:00
Discussion
13:30
Lunch Break
Panel 4: Genealogies of (German) Area Studies
14.30
History, Primitive Peoples and the Abyss of Race. Territorial and Temporal Orders in German Anthropology and Folklore Studies, 1850s-1930s
Christof Dejung, University of Cambridge
15.15
Coffee Break
15.45
Universalizing the Province: Projections, Stereotypes and Premises in Research on African Law in the German Colonies
Ulrike Schaper, Freie Universität Berlin
16.30
Discussion
17.15
End of the Workshop