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Speakers will revisit Hallaq’s trilogy through the lens of necropolitics, examining its relevance in the context of Gaza, the decline of the West, and the emergence of a multipolar world and diverse perspectives.
WHEN: Saturday, 11 Jan 2025 08:30 – Sunday, 12 Jan 2025 13:00 GMT
WHERE: Birkbeck, University of London, Malet St London WC1E 7HX
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About the event:Â
This weekend intensive course will review and build on the synthesis from the Hallaqian triology (Restating Orientalism, Impossible State, Reforming Modernity) in light of the necropolitics in the face of the Gaza genocide, the decline of Western supremacy and the emergence of a multipolar/polycentric world both politically and epistemologically and consequences.
This event is part of the seminar and discussions within the Winter Muslim Fair 2025.
Speakers will discuss:
1) Modern Knowledge and the Modern Concept of Nature: The Root of the Problem (Annotation: The Kantian transformation from freedom of the self to liberty; the lawless individual; the old cosmology and the new Problem of Disanchorage; Liberal crises and the neoconservative backlash).
2) Orientalism, Colonialism, and the New Empire (Annotation: Orientalism as the handmaiden – or symptom — of colonialism; colonialism as the inevitable result of modern epistemology; modern empire vs. premodern empire; modern secular empire as a Christian practice of salvation; Orientalism in the structures of the humanities, social sciences and, especially, exact sciences; Orientalism and the Sharia – one or the other).
3) Necropolitics (Annotation: The fatal marriage of the modern conception of nature and racism; secular and religious populations – structural genocide; Islamic cosmology and the human as nature; biopower in modernity; and as compared to Islamic biopower; genocide and racism [can genocide exist without racism?]; conclusions).
4) Gaza genocide, the decline of Western supremacy and the emergence of a multipolar/polycentric world both politically and epistemologically and consequences.
Speakers:Â
Professor Wael Hallaq [Columbia University, USA]
Professor Jonathan A.C. Brown[Alwaleed bin Talal Chair of Islamic Civilization, Georgetown University, USA]
Main host-chair: Yahya Birt [Research Director of the Ayaan Institute, USA]
And others including:
Paul Williams [Blogging Theology Academy – www.bloggingtheologyacademy.com ]
Dr Engy Moussa [Cambridge Muslim College[CMC], UK]
