Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity
Events of the Department of Socio-Cultural Diversity (in descending order)
Speaker: Saba Mahmood (University of California, Berkeley / presently American Academy in Berlin)
Room: Library Hall
Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
Saba Mahmood is an associate professor of social cultural anthropology at the University of California Berkeley. She was awarded the 2013 Axel Springer Berlin Prize Fellowship at the American Academy in Berlin. Saba Mahmood’s research interests lie in exploring historically specific articulations of secular modernity in postcolonial societies, with particular attention to issues of subject formation, religiosity, embodiment, and gender. Currently she is examining secular-liberal interpretations of Islam in the context of the Middle East and South Asia.