[Peace] Three talks by Prof. Sherman Abd al-Hakim Jackson in Urbana

[Naeem Sheikh]

Dear subscribers to CIMIC Special Events Announcement List,

Greetings! I hope you're all doing well. Coming Thursday and Friday,
Professor Sherman Abd al-Hakim Jackson will be in Urbana. He is
scheduled to give 2 lectures on campus (Thu. 7:30pm, Fri. noon-12:50pm)
and a radio interview via phone on Tue at 11am.

First, a brief bio:
Sherman Abd al-Hakim Jackson is Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Near
Eastern Studies, Professor of Afro-American Studies, and Visiting
Professor of Law at the University of Michigan, and co-founder of the
American Learning Institute for Muslims. He has a BA, MA, and PhD from
the University of Pennsylvania, has studied for years in Cairo, and is
the author of numerous articles and various books, including Islam and
the Blackamerican: Looking toward the Third Resurrection (Oxford Univ.
Press, 2005). Religion Newswriters ranks him among the top 10 U.S.
(academic) scholars of Islam.

As for the events:

1. Professor Sherman A. Jackson will be on WILL radio's FOCUS 580 on
Tuesday, January 27, 11am CST. 

2. CAS/MillerComm Lecture Series 

"Beyond Jihad: New Directions in Muslim Fundamentalist Thought" 

January 29, 2009 at 7:30pm 

Knight Auditorium at the Spurlock Museum (600 S. Gregory St., Urbana) 

Hosted by the Department of Religion and co-sponsored by various
departments and organizations, including CIMIC. 

This lecture will examine what may turn out to be one of the most
important (though as yet little-known) developments in contemporary
Muslim thought to emerge since the emergence of Muslim fundamentalism
itself: the ideological evolution of the (in)famous Gama'ah Islamiyah of
Egypt and its move from terrorism to persuasion. 


3. Lecture: "Muslims, Islam, and Race in America" 

Friday, January 30, 2009, from noon to 1pm. (We will try to end at
12:50pm to give people time to catch Jum'ah, i.A.)

Levis Faculty Center, 2nd floor (919 W. Illinois St., Urbana) 

Co-sponsored by the Department of African-American Studies, the Center
for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, and the Department of
Religion. 

The 19th-20th century biographer Henry Adams makes the point that to do
American history without the clue of race is to produce little more than
nursery tales. Islam, on the other hand, at least in its most common
ideological expression, is race-neutral. How, then, do Muslims come to
terms with the centrality of race to American identity-formation and 
belongingness? And what effect does this quintessential American reality
have on the discourse about and within the Muslim community in America,
especially given the dominant racial and ethnic make-up of Muslims in
the U.S.? This lecture will explore these issues with particular
reference to American blackness, on the one hand, and Islamophobia on
the other.

Naeem
Outreach Committee
Central Illinois Mosque and Islamic Center
www.cimic.org 
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