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URL:https://live-spitzer-arch.pantheonsite.io/events/fall-2023-sciame-lect
 ure-series-tazeen-m-ali/
SUMMARY:Fall 2023 Sciame Lecture Series: Tazeen M. Ali
DESCRIPTION:This lecture will be in person and is part of the Fall 2023 Sci
 ame Lecture Series\, titled "Crosscurrents: Architecture\, Landscape\, and
  Spatial Practices in Southwest Asia and North Africa."\n\nTazeen M. Ali i
 s a scholar of Islam and gender in the United States and is currently assi
 stant professor of religion and politics at Washington University in St. L
 ouis. Her research and teaching focus on Islam in America\, women and reli
 gion\, and Muslims in entertainment media and popular culture. She is the 
 author of The Women's Mosque of America: Authority &amp\; Community in US 
 Islam\, published with NYU Press in November 2022. Her writing has also be
 en published in Religion &amp\; Politics\, The Conversation\, and Middle E
 ast Eye. Ali earned her PhD in Religious Studies from Boston University in
  2019.\n\n"Gender\, Space\, and National Belonging: The Women's Mosque of 
 America": In this talk\, Tazeen M. Ali discusses her recent book The Wome
 n's Mosque of America: Authority &amp\; Community in US Islam (NYU Press\
 , 2022). Her talk will explore how American Muslim women create and author
 ize new conceptions of authority at the Women's Mosque of America\, a mult
 i-racial woman-only mosque in Los Angeles. Its emergence speaks to a US mo
 sque culture that has historically marginalized women through inadequate p
 rayer spaces and limited access to leadership roles. The American Muslim w
 omen in this community form new configurations of religious authority and 
 contest established patriarchal norms while simultaneously contending with
  domestic and global Islamophobia that renders their communities vulnerabl
 e to violence. In the process\, they reimagine the spatial configuration o
 f a mosque\, in which they redefine what a mosque is and who it should ser
 ve. Drawing on textual analysis of WMA sermons and ethnographic interviews
  with community members\, Ali shows how these American Muslim women use sa
 cred scriptures to argue that mosques should be sites of inclusivity acros
 s gendered and racial lines. Overall\, the Muslim women in this community 
 establish themselves as meaningful actors within the fabric of American re
 ligious life and legitimize specific ways of being American Muslims.\n\nSu
 ggested Reading: Tazeen M. Ali\, Introduction to “The Women's Mosque of 
 America: Authority &amp\; Community in US Islam" (NYU Press\, 2022).\n\n"C
 rosscurrents: Architecture\, Landscape\, and Spatial Practices in Southwes
 t Asia and North Africa" probes the radical reimagining of the region comp
 elled by the expression Southwest Asia and North Africa (SWANA). In recent
  years\, the acronym SWANA has gained currency among architects\, landscap
 e architects\, urbanists\, and historians who conceptualize the territorie
 s of the Middle East and North Africa through geography and place rather t
 han colonial frameworks. The term “Middle East” was a British inventio
 n\, a tool used to advance colonialism in a region where so many national 
 borders resulted from imperialist interventions. In the Fall 2023 Sciame L
 ecture Series\, groundbreaking designers\, scholars\, practitioners\, and 
 activists chart multiple—and sometimes competing—currents in the archi
 tecture of the region and its diasporas\, while displacing essentializing 
 colonial narratives. To do so\, speakers from across the area shed light o
 n global\, transnational\, and diasporic human stories about design\, spac
 e\, landscape\, and architecture in SWANA\, and advance new ideas about te
 rritory\, buildings\, places\, histories\, and belonging.\n\nAll lectures 
 are free\, open to the public\, and held in the Bernard and Anne Spitzer S
 chool of Architecture Sciame Auditorium.\n\nSee https://www.ccny.cuny.edu/
 return-campus for current requirements for in-person visitors.\n\nThis lec
 ture series is made possible by the Spitzer Architecture Fund and the gene
 rous support of Frank Sciame ’74\, CEO of Sciame Construction.
CATEGORIES:Events,Lectures,Sciame Lectures
LOCATION:Sciame Auditorium (Room 107)\, 141 Convent Avenue\, New York\, NY\
 , 10031\, United States
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