On the occasion of the 15th anniversary of the Yearbook of Muslims in Europe published by Brill, the Research Center DRES UMR 7354, the Department of Turkish Studies at the University of Strasbourg, as well as the Makers Interdisciplinary Thematic Institute and the Institute of Islamology at the University of Strasbourg, are organizing an international conference on the diasporification of Islam in Europe

On the occasion of the 15th anniversary of the Yearbook of Muslims in Europe published by Brill, the Research Center DRES UMR 7354, the Department of Turkish Studies at the University of Strasbourg, as well as the Makers Interdisciplinary Thematic Institute and the Institute of Islamology at the University of Strasbourg, are organizing an international conference on the diasporification of Islam in Europe on April 18th and 19th, at the National University Library (on the 18th in the afternoon) and at the University Palace on the 19th.

For any questions or additional information, please feel free to contact Professor Samim Akgönül: akgonul[at]unistra.fr 

Conference programme

April 18th, 2024

10h-12h – YME meeting

13h30 - Welcoming Speeches 14h00 – 14h45: Eric Vallet, keynote speech “Researching Islam in Europe: in quest of the right focal length”

14h45 – 16h15: First Session. East-West Encounters: The role of the “Homelands”

• Dzevada Susko: Constructing a new Homeland: The Formation and Evolution of the Bosniak Diaspora in Europe
• Ahmet Erdi Öztürk: The Role of Religion in the External Manifestation of Turkey's Internal Struggles
• Gintarė Lukoševičiūtė & Egdūnas Račius: Diasporization of Islam in Lithuania: The Turkish Hand

16H15: Coffee break      

16h45 – 18h45: Second Session. Northern Europe: building diaspora, becoming local

• Sumeera Hassan: ‘Doing Theology’: An Ethnographic Study of Theological Transmission within Ahmadiyya Jamaat Finland
• Marianne: Belonging in the Iranian diaspora community’s “Woman, life, freedom” solidarity protests in Norway
• Marius Linge: Governance, intersectional dialogue, and changing perceptions of queerness in Norwegian Islam
• Ringo Ringvee: When a community becomes communities. 15 years of Muslim history in Estonia

18h45 - End of the first day

19h30 - Dinner

April 19th, 2024

9H00 - 10h30: Third Session. Western Europe: Domestication of Islam and resistance of diasporas

• Elena Arigita: The weight of history and the new visibility of Islam in Spain: The Taqwa Mosque of Granada
• Jean-François Husson: Islam in Belgium: old tools and new communities
• Silvia Martens: The “disease" of feminism, benefits of polygamy and challenges of parenting in a society with open gender norms – views of Salafi women in Switzerland

10h30 -Coffee break

10h30 - 12h30: Fourth Session European and national: how to build a “European Islam”

• Johanna Pink: Islamic publishing and the Qur’an between global Muslim networks and local diasporas
• Thijl Sunier: Imams for the diaspora? The politics of imam-training and the diasporification of Muslims in Western Europe.
• Elmira Akhmetova: Muslim Communities in Russia Within State Policies of the Domestication of Islam: Experiences with National Integration and Securitisation
• Samim Akgönül: Turkish Islam in France: between two rival nationalizations

12h30 – 14h00 lunch

14h-14h45: Jørgen Nielsen Closing speech

15h00-18h30: JOME Board Meeting