Alumni Lecture Series
We are pleased to invite you to join the next presentation as part of the Alumni Lecture Series. This is a series of free events featuring speakers, usually IIS alumni. You can expect thought-provoking discussions, engaging topics, and networking opportunities with your fellow alumni over light refreshments. We invite you to join us and interact with the alumni community.
Towards an Integral Anthropology of Islam and Muslims: Identity Processes Among Emerging Adult Ismailis of South Asia Heritage in Europe and North America
Speaker: Sadiq S. Habib, GPISH 2015
In this lecture, Sadiq S. Habib will present his latest research project, to be conducted as a PhD candidate at SOAS’ Department of Religions and Philosophies.
Through a study of the identity processes of emerging adult Ismailis of South Asian heritage in Europe and North America, Sadiq S. Habib’s proposed research wishes to contribute to illuminating socio-historical developments among contemporary Ismaili communities. Given the absence of significant research on the topic, this work will fill an important gap in Ismaili Studies—while at the same time adding to an increasing body of literature on contemporary Ismaili Muslims and Ismaili Islam. Moreover, by inserting itself in the post-disciplinary and integral project of the Anthropology of Identity Processes (AIP) this research further aims towards an overcoming of the disciplinary fragmentation and incarceration characteristic of contemporary anthropological sciences.
A theory of human pluralisation, AIP is premised on the notion that identities express the (inherently human) boundary-generating socio-historical process of relational differentiation. By critically analysing the contemporary identity processes of South Asian emerging adult Ismaili jamaats in European and North-American cities, Sadiq S. Habib’s research aims to contribute to an integrative theorisation of the structural-dynamic pluralised history of (Ismaili) Islam and Muslims.
About the Speaker
Sadiq S. Habib is a Portuguese theoretical anthropologist. After obtaining a BA in Anthropology, and a Postgraduate Diploma in Migration, Inter-Ethnicity and Transnationalism Studies—both by New University of Lisbon’s Faculty of Social and Human Sciences—Sadiq joined the IIS as a student of its Graduate Programme in Islamic Studies and Humanities’ (GPISH) Class of 2015. His work since has focused in the study of Shiʿi Ismaili Islam, in both its historic and contemporary dimensions. His GPISH dissertation (2014), based on ethnographic fieldwork with the Canadian Ismailis in the city of Calgary, looks at the specificity of the Canadian Ismaili experience as shaped by the historical implementation of multiculturalism as a contingent political strategy. In 2015, he obtained an MSc in Comparative Political Thought from SOAS’ Department of Politics and International Studies, with a dissertation offering a critical reading of a passage in the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche’s magnum opus, “On the Genealogy of Morality”, in which “The Order of Assassins” is claimed by the philosopher as a practical example of his philosophical and political thought. After his graduation, Sadiq did an internship in Constituency Studies Unit at IIS and since 2016 he has worked as an independent researcher, presented papers in international academic conferences and published articles in Portuguese print and online outlets.
Time and Venue
Thursday 21st June 2018, 1700 - 1830
The Institute of Ismaili Studies
210 Euston Rd, London, NW1 2DA (Room 2.1, 2nd floor)
Link to join the session online: https://zoom.us/j/330201388
Booking
To attend this event or watch the live webcast, please RSVP here by 20th June.
For further information or if you would like to present or organise a lecture in your city, please contact your Chapter President or the Alumni Relation Coordinator
We look forward to meeting you
Regards
IIS Alumni Association
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We are pleased to invite you to join the next presentation as part of the Alumni Lecture Series. This is a series of free events featuring speakers, usually IIS alumni. You can expect thought-provoking discussions, engaging topics, and networking opportunities with your fellow alumni over light refreshments. We invite you to join us and interact with the alumni community.
Towards an Integral Anthropology of Islam and Muslims: Identity Processes Among Emerging Adult Ismailis of South Asia Heritage in Europe and North America
Speaker: Sadiq S. Habib, GPISH 2015
In this lecture, Sadiq S. Habib will present his latest research project, to be conducted as a PhD candidate at SOAS’ Department of Religions and Philosophies.
Through a study of the identity processes of emerging adult Ismailis of South Asian heritage in Europe and North America, Sadiq S. Habib’s proposed research wishes to contribute to illuminating socio-historical developments among contemporary Ismaili communities. Given the absence of significant research on the topic, this work will fill an important gap in Ismaili Studies—while at the same time adding to an increasing body of literature on contemporary Ismaili Muslims and Ismaili Islam. Moreover, by inserting itself in the post-disciplinary and integral project of the Anthropology of Identity Processes (AIP) this research further aims towards an overcoming of the disciplinary fragmentation and incarceration characteristic of contemporary anthropological sciences.
A theory of human pluralisation, AIP is premised on the notion that identities express the (inherently human) boundary-generating socio-historical process of relational differentiation. By critically analysing the contemporary identity processes of South Asian emerging adult Ismaili jamaats in European and North-American cities, Sadiq S. Habib’s research aims to contribute to an integrative theorisation of the structural-dynamic pluralised history of (Ismaili) Islam and Muslims.
About the Speaker
Sadiq S. Habib is a Portuguese theoretical anthropologist. After obtaining a BA in Anthropology, and a Postgraduate Diploma in Migration, Inter-Ethnicity and Transnationalism Studies—both by New University of Lisbon’s Faculty of Social and Human Sciences—Sadiq joined the IIS as a student of its Graduate Programme in Islamic Studies and Humanities’ (GPISH) Class of 2015. His work since has focused in the study of Shiʿi Ismaili Islam, in both its historic and contemporary dimensions. His GPISH dissertation (2014), based on ethnographic fieldwork with the Canadian Ismailis in the city of Calgary, looks at the specificity of the Canadian Ismaili experience as shaped by the historical implementation of multiculturalism as a contingent political strategy. In 2015, he obtained an MSc in Comparative Political Thought from SOAS’ Department of Politics and International Studies, with a dissertation offering a critical reading of a passage in the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche’s magnum opus, “On the Genealogy of Morality”, in which “The Order of Assassins” is claimed by the philosopher as a practical example of his philosophical and political thought. After his graduation, Sadiq did an internship in Constituency Studies Unit at IIS and since 2016 he has worked as an independent researcher, presented papers in international academic conferences and published articles in Portuguese print and online outlets.
Time and Venue
Thursday 21st June 2018, 1700 - 1830
The Institute of Ismaili Studies
210 Euston Rd, London, NW1 2DA (Room 2.1, 2nd floor)
Link to join the session online: https://zoom.us/j/330201388
Booking
To attend this event or watch the live webcast, please RSVP here by 20th June.
For further information or if you would like to present or organise a lecture in your city, please contact your Chapter President or the Alumni Relation Coordinator
We look forward to meeting you
Regards
IIS Alumni Association
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We are pleased to invite you to join the next presentation as part of the Alumni Lecture Series. This is a series of free events featuring speakers, usually IIS alumni. You can expect thought-provoking discussions, engaging topics, and networking opportunities with your fellow alumni over light refreshments. We invite you to join us and interact with the alumni community.
Towards an Integral Anthropology of Islam and Muslims: Identity Processes Among Emerging Adult Ismailis of South Asia Heritage in Europe and North America
Speaker: Sadiq S. Habib, GPISH 2015
In this lecture, Sadiq S. Habib will present his latest research project, to be conducted as a PhD candidate at SOAS’ Department of Religions and Philosophies.
Through a study of the identity processes of emerging adult Ismailis of South Asian heritage in Europe and North America, Sadiq S. Habib’s proposed research wishes to contribute to illuminating socio-historical developments among contemporary Ismaili communities. Given the absence of significant research on the topic, this work will fill an important gap in Ismaili Studies—while at the same time adding to an increasing body of literature on contemporary Ismaili Muslims and Ismaili Islam. Moreover, by inserting itself in the post-disciplinary and integral project of the Anthropology of Identity Processes (AIP) this research further aims towards an overcoming of the disciplinary fragmentation and incarceration characteristic of contemporary anthropological sciences.
A theory of human pluralisation, AIP is premised on the notion that identities express the (inherently human) boundary-generating socio-historical process of relational differentiation. By critically analysing the contemporary identity processes of South Asian emerging adult Ismaili jamaats in European and North-American cities, Sadiq S. Habib’s research aims to contribute to an integrative theorisation of the structural-dynamic pluralised history of (Ismaili) Islam and Muslims.
About the Speaker
Sadiq S. Habib is a Portuguese theoretical anthropologist. After obtaining a BA in Anthropology, and a Postgraduate Diploma in Migration, Inter-Ethnicity and Transnationalism Studies—both by New University of Lisbon’s Faculty of Social and Human Sciences—Sadiq joined the IIS as a student of its Graduate Programme in Islamic Studies and Humanities’ (GPISH) Class of 2015. His work since has focused in the study of Shiʿi Ismaili Islam, in both its historic and contemporary dimensions. His GPISH dissertation (2014), based on ethnographic fieldwork with the Canadian Ismailis in the city of Calgary, looks at the specificity of the Canadian Ismaili experience as shaped by the historical implementation of multiculturalism as a contingent political strategy. In 2015, he obtained an MSc in Comparative Political Thought from SOAS’ Department of Politics and International Studies, with a dissertation offering a critical reading of a passage in the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche’s magnum opus, “On the Genealogy of Morality”, in which “The Order of Assassins” is claimed by the philosopher as a practical example of his philosophical and political thought. After his graduation, Sadiq did an internship in Constituency Studies Unit at IIS and since 2016 he has worked as an independent researcher, presented papers in international academic conferences and published articles in Portuguese print and online outlets.
Time and Venue
Thursday 21st June 2018, 1700 - 1830
The Institute of Ismaili Studies
210 Euston Rd, London, NW1 2DA (Room 2.1, 2nd floor)
Link to join the session online: https://zoom.us/j/330201388
Booking
To attend this event or watch the live webcast, please RSVP here by 20th June.
For further information or if you would like to present or organise a lecture in your city, please contact your Chapter President or the Alumni Relation Coordinator
We look forward to meeting you
Regards
IIS Alumni Association
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