Seminario “Oriental Music Conversations” – Rachel Harris – 5 Novembre 2021

ISMEO presenta il quinto seminario di Oriental Music Conversations

5 novembre 2021, ore 17.00

Rachel Harris

(Professor, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London)

Soundscapes of Uyghur Islam

Rachel Harris’s research is based on fieldwork across borders, working with Turkic Muslim Uyghur communities living in China and Central Asia. In this talk she explores how attention to sound can contribute to our understanding of religious faith and political power. How do new religious ideas and feelings circulate within society, and how do people listen to, embody, and reproduce them? Her research encompasses village women’s ritual practices, digital ethnography of mediated spheres of religious life, oral traditions of Central Asian Sufism, transnational flows of Qur’anic recitation and radical anashid. In the fraught sphere of discourse surrounding Islamic revivals, where dominant narratives privilege the visual in ways that routinely stereotype and demonize Muslim subjects, attending to flows of sound and practices of listening, and the politics of voice and place may help us to cut through polarized political debates, and create new narratives about the lived experience of Islam.

È possibile seguire il seminario via Zoom inserendo i codici indicati nella locandina

ID: 817 4631 9277  •  Passcode: 079978

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