Teaching Gender and Sexuality in Islamic Studies Workshop
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Teaching Gender and Sexuality in Islamic Studies Workshop

A joint initiative between ‘Islam and Politics in Contemporary Asia and the Middle East’ and ‘Gender, Environment & Migration’ clusters.

By Faculty of Arts, the University of Melbourne

Date and time

Tuesday, May 21 · 11am - 1pm AEST

Location

School of Physics (David Caro Building)

School of Physics (David Caro Building) Parkville, VIC 3052 Australia

About this event

  • 2 hours

In this reading-based workshop, Dr Amanullah De Sondy will speak about his approach to teaching both gender and sexualities in Islamic Studies drawing on his experiences at University College Cork. In particular, he will unpack the challenge of dealing with presumed knowledge and preconceived ideas about Islam and the need for a student-centred approach to fostering inquiry. This will then be followed be followed by a group discussion and lunch.

Required reading for the workshop is his book chapter:

De Sondy, A. (2020) ‘Toward a Critical Teaching Method of Islamic Genders and Sexualities’ in D. W. Stephens & K. Ott (Eds.), Teaching Sexuality and Religion in Higher Education: Embodied Learning, Trauma Sensitive Pedagogy, and Perspective Transformation (pp.88-98), New York: Routledge.

*Please note that a copy of this reading will be sent out beforehand.

Hosts

Dr David Tittensor | Senior Lecturer in Islamic Studies, Asia Institute

Prof Clare Maree | Professor in Japanese, Asia Institute

Speaker

Dr Amanullah De Sondy

Dr Amanullah De Sondy is Head of the Study of Religions Department at University College Cork in Ireland and Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Islam. He is the author of the Crisis of Islamic Masculinities (Bloomsbury Academic 2014) and Judaism, Christianity and Islam: An Introduction to Monotheism with Michelle A Gonzalez and William S Green (Bloomsbury Academic 2020) amongst several other publications.

Aman has been broadcasting ‘Thought for the Day’ with BBC Radio Scotland for nearly twenty years, a regular contributor to the News Panel on RTE 1 Today TV show and is passionate about the public understanding of religion through the themes of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality and pluralism. Aman tweets @desondy

Catering

Lunch will be served at this workshop.

Accessibility

Lifts and ramps are available at the Physics (David Caro) Building. If you have any specific accessibility requirements, please do not hesitate to reach out.

Contact

For any inquiries, please contact Anneliz Marie Erese at annelizmarie.erese@unimelb.edu.au

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