Conference Programme ¦ June 21 2008

8:00 – 9:00 ¦ Registration

9:00 – 9:30 ¦ Welcome and Introductions

• Derryl MacLean, Director, SFU-CCSMSC
• Michael Stevenson, President, SFU
• Firoz Rasul, President, AKU

9:30 – 10:40 ¦ Panel I ¦ Myth and Memory

• Iftikhar Dadi, Cornell University
  Chughtai's Revival of Mughal Cosmopolitanism
• Ariel Salzman, Queen’s University
  Cosmopolis, Islampolis: Ottoman urbanity between myth, memory, and post-modernity

10:40 – 11:10 ¦ Break

11:10 – 12:20 ¦ Panel II ¦ Authenticity and the Other

• Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi, University of Toronto
  Persian Europology and Cosmopolitanism
• Muhammad Khalid Mas'ud, Council of Islamic Ideology, Government of Pakistan
  The Doctrine of tashabbuh bi’l kuffar (Imitating the infidel) Revisited: modern South Asian fatawa ‘cultural authenticity’

12:20 – 13:20 ¦ Lunch

13:20 – 14:30 ¦ Panel III ¦ Locality and Cosmopolitanisms

• Nile Green, University of California at Los Angeles
  Cosmopolitan Pressures and Tumbling Tower Blocks: supernatural catastrophe in colonial Bombay
• Kai Kresse, University of St Andrews
How cosmopolitan is Mombasa: reflections and discussions

14:30 – 15:00 ¦ Break

15:00 – 16:00 ¦ Roundtable Discussion - Toward the Future

16:00 – 16:30 ¦ Closing Remarks

• Abdou Filali-Ansary, Director, AKU-ISMC