BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20250820T170953EDT-2673UKvOfT@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20250820T210953Z DESCRIPTION:The Old Women of Nishapur Initiative on Gender\, Knowledge and Religion\n\nInvites you to a public talk by\n\nBasit Iqbal (McMaster Unive rsity)\n\nTo the Threshold of Capacity: Tribulation and Ambivalence in Zaa tari Camp\n\nMonday March 18th\, 12:30-2:00 PM\n\nPeterson Hall 108\n\nCo- sponsored by The şÚÁϲ»´ňěČ Refuge Research Group\, The Department of Anthropo logy and the Institute of Islamic Studies\n\nSee attached poster.\n\nAbstr act: Freed from the Assad regime’s obsessive control of religion\, displac ed Syrians in Zaatari Refugee Camp pursue sharia studies. They refuse the lure of resettlement or restoration\, developing instead an extensive prog ram of study. These teachers and students relate their pursuit of religiou s knowledge to the existential question of their own individual and collec tive capacities. In doing so they underscore the essential opacity of huma n experience. This lesson\, at once anthropological and theological\, lead s away from conventional affirmations of refugee agency or resilience. Thi s lesson demands admitting the heteronomous conditions of existence. They call this: fate.\n\n \n\nBasit Kareem Iqbal is assistant professor of anth ropology (and associate member of religious studies) at McMaster Universit y. Based on fieldwork in Jordan and Canada with refugees\, relief workers\ , and religious scholars\, his current book manuscript is titled “The Drea d Heights: Refuge and Tribulation after the Syrian Revolution.” His previo us publications have appeared in Critical Times\, diacritics\, Political T heology\, Muslim World\, Anthropologie et sociĂ©tĂ©s\, the Journal of Religi on\, Anthropological Theory\, and Method and Theory in the Study of Religi on\, among others.\n\n \n\nProf. Iqbal will also hold a discussion seminar on Tuesday March 19\, at 9am. If you are interested in participating in t he seminar\, write to setrag.manoukian [at] mcgill.ca\n\n \n DTSTART:20240318T163000Z DTEND:20240318T180000Z LOCATION:108\, Peterson Hall\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 0E6\, 3460 rue McTa vish SUMMARY:Basit Iqbal (McMaster University) - To the Threshold of Capacity: T ribulation and Ambivalence in Zaatari Camp URL:/anthropology/channels/event/basit-iqbal-mcmaster- university-threshold-capacity-tribulation-and-ambivalence-zaatari-camp-356 055 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR