SCHEDULE

 
 
DAY 1: Thursday, April 14, 2022
Roemmele Global Commons, Williams Hall
 
 
8:30 am-8:45 am
Welcome and Introductory Remarks

Robert A. Flowers II, Herbert J. and Ann L. Siegel Dean, College of Arts and Sciences 
Robert Rozehnal
 
8:45 am-10:30 pm 
Panel One: Authority and Authenticity
Respondent: Dheepa Sundaram
 

1. The Net Imam Effect: Digital Contestation of #Islam and Religious Authority 
    Gary R. Bunt

2. Hybrid Imams: Young Muslims and Religious Authority on Social Media
    Sana Patel

3. Mediating Authority: A Sufi Shaykh in Multiple Media 
    Ismail Fajrie Alatas

10:45 am-1:00 pm
Panel Two: Community and Identity 

Respondent: miriam cooke
 
4. Stream If You Want: See Something, Say Something and the Humanizing Potential of Digital Islam
    Caleb Elfenbein
 
5. Latinx Muslim Digital Landscapes: Locating Networks and Cultural Practices
    Madelina Nuñez and Harold D. Morales
 
6. Revisiting Digital Islamic Feminism: Multiple Resistances, Identities, and Online Communities
    Sahar Khamis
 
7. #MuslimGirlWoke: A Muslim Lifestyle Website Challenges Intersectional Oppression 
    Kristin M. Peterson
 
3:00 pm-5:15 pm
Panel Three: Piety and Performance 
Respondent: Dheepa Sundaram
 
8. The Digital Niqābosphere as a Hypermediated Third Space
    Anna Piela
 
9. Islamic Meditation: Mindfulness Apps for Muslims in the Digital Spiritual Marketplace 
   Megan Adamson Sijapati
 
10. From Mecca With Love: Muslim Religious Apps and the Centering of Sacred Geography 
      Andrea L. Stanton
 
11. Seeing a Global Islam?: Eid al-Adha on Instagram 
      Rosemary Pennington
 
DAY 2: Friday, April 15, 2022
Roemmele Global Commons, Williams Hall
 
 
9:00 am-11:15 am
Panel Four: Visual and Cultural (Re)presentation 
Respondent: Bruce B. Lawrence 
 
12. Defining Islamic Art: Practices and Digital Reconfigurations 
      Hussein Rashid
 
13. Dousing the Flame: The Political Work of Religious Satire in Contemporary Indonesia
      James B. Hoesterey
 
14. The Instagram Cleric: History, Technicity, and Shīʿī Iranian Jurists in the Age of Social Media
      Babak Rahimi
 
15. Muslims Between Transparency and Opacity 
      Nabil Echchaibi
 
11:30 am-12:45 pm
Wrap-Up Session: discussion of conference themes, state of the field, and future scholarship
Chair: Robert Rozehnal