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Queer worldmaking amidst and beyond religious conservatism
30 September–1 October 2024 | FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg (Germany)
13–14 January 2025 | Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia)
This workshop, split into two parts, explores the intersection of queer identities and religious conservatism across Muslim Southeast Asia from a feminist interdisciplinary lens. Both as a positive self-designation and in the context of scientific and political activism, ‘queer’ stands self-confidently for everyone and everything that deviates from the supposed norm and, thus, questions it. In most contemporary societies around the globe – Muslim-majority and Muslim-minority alike – the intersection of queerness with religious conservatism is especially challenging as it is saturated with power, challenge, uncertainties – but also constructive modes of overcoming them.
This project therefore seeks to stimulate (new) visions and interventions of collective queer persons living in religiously conservative Muslim Southeast Asia and their strategies of belonging, self-assurance and empowerment. To achieve this goal, we will bring together scholars and activists working in and on Muslim Southeast Asia to critically engage with current queer theory and praxis in Muslim contexts while seeking to develop a common set of concepts, strategies, and tools to approach transgressive, non-binary genders and sexualities from a feminist, antiracist and decolonial perspective.
These dual two-day workshops aim to provide early career and senior scholars from different academic disciplines with analytical, theoretical, and methodological tools for the study of gendered and sexualized dynamics in religious contexts. Each workshop (one in Germany held on 30th of September and 1st of October 2024 at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg [FAU]) and the following one in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from 13th to 14th of January 2025) will select participants amongst scholars and activists from both regions who are keen to engage in academic and public discourse regarding the intersection of gender, sexuality and religion.
Please find more information and the Call for Papers attached.
How to Apply:
Application packages from eligible students and scholars should contain:
- 3-page Curriculum Vitae (including education, publications, teaching experiences)
- 1-page description of your research project (title, introduction, research questions, methodology, approach)
- Motivation for participation in the workshop(s) (one page)
- Information on funding: Does your institution refund the travel costs or not? Travel subsidies can be provided for a few selected participants, especially for the Malaysian part of the workshop.
• Application materials should be sent directly to Ferdiansyah Thajib (ferdi.thajib@fau.de) by 15 June 2024.
• Successful applications will be notified via email by 30 June 2024.
Jointly organized by:
• Dr. Benjamin YH Loh |Senior Lecturer |School of Media and Communication | Taylor’s University
• Dr. Vilashini Somiah | Senior Lecturer |Gender Studies Programme | Universiti Malaya
• Dr. Ferdiansyah Thajib | Senior Lecturer | Elite Graduate Programme “Standards of Decision-Making Across Cultures” | University of Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU)
• PD Dr. Viola Thimm | Associate Professor | Elite Graduate Programme “Standards of Decision-Making Across Cultures” | University of Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU)
To study how religion, and Islam in particular, shapes everyday beliefs and practices about gender difference, this specialised two-year Masters programme focuses on the links between Islamic thought, gender and sexuality. The programme focuses on both theoretical and practical gender-based reform and transformation in religious spaces. Students in the programme have the opportunity to draw relevance between current realities and historical thought, in ways that respond to the concerns of contemporary young Muslims.
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