Program of an one-day conference on Muslim exceptionalism at the University of Pennsylvania on 24 October 2014; the conference's organizer is not named on this flyer of the program.

1. October 24, 2014
Meyerson Conference Room, Van Pelt Library, 2nd Floor
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
0930 – 1100 Nancy Khalek (Brown University)
Islam is a Conversation-stopper? Changing Notions of “Tolerance” and “Civility”
in the Classroom
Gregory S. Starrett (UNC, Charlotte) Talking about Islamic Violence
1110 – 1230 Aaron Hughes (University of Rochester)
Nostalgia for an Invented Past: The Quest for an Authentic Islam
Robert Morrison (Bowdoin College) The History of Rationalism(s?) in Islam
1230 – 1330 Lunch Break
1330 – 1500 Jamal J. Elias (University of Pennsylvania)
Girl Brides and Boy Soldiers: Ahistoricity and Impossible Questions
Terenjit Sevea (University of Pennsylvania),
The Excavation of Ghaib Ore: The Forgotten Histories of Islam in the Mines
of Modern Malaya
1515 – 1645 Laurie Margot Ross (Cornell University)
Can the Transregionalist Speak? Redefining Islamic “Authenticity”
in the Academy and Across the Seas
Shahzad Bashir (Stanford University) Conceptualizing Time Beyond the
Orientalist Paradigm in Islamic Studies
Sponsored by the Department of Religious Studies, the South Asia Center,
the Middle East Center, and the School of Arts and Sciences
University of Pennsylvania