Collective Activities
25/08 – 27/08 2022
Workshop of the core researchers together with the international advisory board in Dragør, Denmark.
Several internal workshops of the core group.
Sub Project 1
Working title: Islam in global modernity: The case of the Arctic West
Dietrich Jung
01/09 – 31/12 2022
Senior fellow at the Centre for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences “Multiple Secularities- Beyond the West, Beyond Modernities”, University of Leipzig, Germany. Presentation and discussion of the project with the research group there.
01/05 – 18/06 2023
Senior fellow at the Middle East Institute of the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA) in Hamburg, Germany. Presentation and discussion of the project with the researchers of the Middle East Institute.
21-23/09/2023
Discussion of the Subproject at the Annual conference of the German Association for Middle East Studies (DAVO) and the Fourth European Convention on Turkic, Ottoman and Turkish Studies in Vienna, Austria.
28-29 /09/2023
Discussion of the Subproject in the context of the Workshop “Muslim Humanitarians, Islan and the SDGs at PRIOR, Oslo, Norway.
13/10/2023
Presentation “Multiple Secularities and Pre-adaptive Advances to Modernity: A Perspective of Social Emergence” at the Final Conference of the Humanities Centre for Advanced Studies “Multiple Secularities”, University of Leipzig, Germany.
16/01/2024
Presentation “The Arctic Muslim. Practicing Islamic Traditions in New Contexts” at the International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
16/01/2024
Lecture on Islam and Science at the Department of Political Science, International Islamic University Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
18/01/2024
Presentation “Social Emergence and the Myth of European Exceptionalism” at the Selangor Public Library, Selangor, Malaysia.
19/01/2024
Lecture “In Search of Social Order: ‘Organised Modernity’ in the Thought of Hasan al-Banna and Mustafa Kemal Ataturk” at the International Institute of Islamic Thought, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
24/01/2024
Presentation at the “Seminar on Islam and Social Theory” at Western Sydney University, School of Social Sciences, Sydney, Australia.
31/01/2024
Lecture “From Ottoman to Arctic Muslims: Global Modernity and the Study of Modern Muslim Subjectivities” at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, National University of Singapore.
02/02/2024
Presentation “The Arctic Muslim: Practicing Islamic Tradition in New Contexts” at the School of Social Science, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
Sub Project 2
Working title: Living authentic Islamic lives in Arctic Norway
Kirstine Sinclair
22/09 – 24/09
Paper presentation, Nordic Society for Middle Eastern Studies, University of Reykjavik, Iceland.
03/10 – 07/10 2022
First visit to Tromsø.
16/11 – 02/12 2022
First field meetings in Tromsø.
19/02 – 27/02 2023
Interviews in Tromsø.
12/04 – 27/04 2023
Interviews in Tromsø and Ramadan observations.
20/04 2023
Guest lecture at ‘Åbo Akademi, Turku Finland.
27/09 – 28/09 2023
Presentation “The Arctic Muslim and Questions about Mosques and the Environment: What is Extreme about the Arctic?” at the Anniversary Conference at Arab and Islamic Studies, Aarhus University.
01/11 – 12/11 2023
Field visit and collegial exchange with project colleague Jennifer Selby, Memorial University, St. John’s, Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada.
02/11 – 05/11 2023
Presentation “The Arctic Muslim” at the annual meeting of the Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA), Montreal, Canada.
08/11 2023
Lecture “Islam in the Plural” at Memorial University, St. John’s, Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada.
Sub Project 3
Working title:Living Authentic Islamic Lives: Interpretation and Practice of Islamic Traditions in Canada’s Northern and Arctic Communities
Bouchra Mossmann
The first year of the PhD focused on the accomplishment of requested course works and teaching obligations (teaching the course “Culture and Religion in the Middle East”).
25/09 2022
Presentation of the subproject at the DAVO (German Association of Middle East Studies) Young Scholar Workshop, Annual Congress of the DAVO, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.
12/10 2022
Presentation of the subproject at the Department of History, University of Southern Denmark.
17/10 2022
Discussion of the subproject at the only meeting for graduate students, Institute for Islamic Studies, University of Freiburg, Germany.
27/01 2023
Presentation of the subproject at the German-Danish workshop in Middle East and Islamic Studies, University of Hamburg, Germany.
16/03 2023
Presentation and discussion of the subproject at the internal faculty research programme for PhD candidates (FORAH). Critical comments by a senior colleague from the faculty.
05/11 2023
Presentation at the MESA Annual Meeting in Montreal titled: “Making the Arctic a Muslim Home: Strategies of place-making in Northern Canada”.
07/11 – 23/11 2023 Fieldwork/Data collection in Edmonton.
23/11 – 18/12 2023 Fieldwork/Data collection in Yellowknife.
18/11 2023 – 13/01 2024 Fieldwork/Data collection in Inuvik.
15/01/2024 – 29/02/2024 Visiting Graduate Student at Memorial University, St. John’s, including four presentations of the project in various settings.